Missouri State

Honors

• MLS SuperDraft Eligible List: 2023
• United Soccer Coaches All-West Region: 2022 (2nd), 2023 (1st)
• MVC Midfielder of the Year: 2022, 2023
• All-MVC: 2020-21 (2nd), 2019 (2nd), 2022 (1st), 2023 (1st)
• National Team of the Week (College Soccer News): 8/28/23
• MVC Defensive Player of the Week: 9/10/19
• MVC Scholar-Athlete Team: 2020-21 (HM), 2022 (1st), 2023 (1st)
• CSC Academic All-District Team: 2022, 2023
• MVC Board of Directors Academic Excellence: 2022-23
• MVC Commissioner's Excellence Award: 2019-20, 2020-21, 2022-23
• MVC Honor Roll: 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2022-23
• United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-Region: 2020-21, 2022
• MSU Athletic Director's Honor Roll: Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023

2023
Played and started all 19 games...Ends career with second most starts in Missouri State history (82)...Scored career-high four goals and three assists...Scored game-winning goal in season opener at No. 14 Maryland in the 31st minute (8/24/2023)...Scored game-tying goal in the 84th minute of MVC championship game against Western Michigan (11/11/23)...Named MVC Midfielder of the Year for second consecutive year...First player to win multiple Midfielder of the Year awards in conference history...Named to United Soccer Coaches All-West Region First Team...Also on All-MVC First Team...Clocked in second-most minutes on the team with 1,645 to cross 7,000 career minutes...Named to College Soccer News National Team of the Week (8/28/23)...Made CSC Academic All-District Team and MVC Scholar-Athlete First Team.

2022
Named the Missouri Valley Conference Midfielder of the Year while earning first-team All-MVC honors... Named to the United Soccer Coaches All-West Region second team ... Started all 18 matches as the Bears’ team captain ... Clocked the second-most minutes on the team with 1,474 ... Shared team lead and finished third in the MVC with 5 assists ... Earned a spot on the MVC Scholar-Athlete team (first team) along with a spot on the CSC Academic All-District Team... Earned a spot on the 2023 Major League Soccer Superdraft Eligible List ... Was named to MVC Board of Directors Academic Excellence and MVC Commissioner's Academic Excellence Award Lists as well as MVC Honor Roll ... Named to the MSU Athletic Director’s Honor Roll for the Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 semesters. 

2021
Started all four games he appeared in before missing extended time due to an injury ... Recorded 277 total minutes on the pitch ... Scored a pair of goals off on five shots ... Netted first goal vs. SIUE (9/19/21) and added another goal six days later vs. Evansville (9/25/21) ... Assisted a goal in the Bears' win over Belmont (8/26/21) ... Was named to the MSU Athletic Director's Honor Roll for his academic efforts during the Fall 2021 semester.

2020-21
Started 12 matches after missing the first two games while recovering from an offseason injury ... Logged 1,070 minutes while seeing time in both the defensive midfield and center back positions … Scored the game-winning goal at Central Arkansas (4/3/21) … Tallied his first points of the spring with an assist at Loyola Chicago (3/26/21) … Played the full-90 in both of MSU’s NCAA Tournament matches against Maryland (5/2/21) and Washington (5/6/21)… Selected to the All-MVC second team and Preseason All-MVC Team… Earned United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-Region and MVC Scholar-Athlete honorable mention honors.

2019
Selected to the All-MVC Second Team after finishing as the league leader in assists ... Started all 20 matches for the Bears … Took a majority of the team’s set pieces, tallying nine assists in 2019 to rank fifth on program's single-season list at the time  ... Recorded his first points as a Bear with a pair of assists at Kansas City (9/7/19) ... Totaled 16 shots on the year, including a season-high three shots at Bradley (10/19/19) … Named MVC Defensive Player of the Week on 9/10/19.

2018
Played in 12 matches with nine starts in his first season at Missouri State ... Attempted four total shots on the season, putting two on goal.

High School
Denton earned a two-year scholarship to play at Reading F.C where he led the team to the semifinals of the Premier League tournament in 2015 ... Helped Reading R.C. earn a third-place finish in the U18 Premier League South table.

Personal
Jack James Denton was born 10/13/98 in Wexham, Bucks … Son of Garry and Fenella Denton … Has one brother, George ... Majoring in Professional Studies (MPS).