Wake Forest Athletics
2025 Men's Soccer Roster
Ryan Belal
- Height:
- 6-0
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Baltimore, Md.
- High School:
- Calvert Hall
Career Stats
2025 (Sophomore)
Appeared in 16 matches with two starts… Logged 363 minutes of action… Finished the year with two goals and an assist… Scored the first Wake Forest goal of the season in the 75th minute against UCF in the opener en route to a 2-1 victory (8/24)... Recorded his first-career assist in the second match against Oral Roberts (8/28)... Scored the last Wake Forest goal of the season in the ACC Tournament against SMU (11/5).
2024 (Freshman)
Appeared in 19 matches with one start, finishing tied for second on the team in goals (four) … Made his collegiate debut against VCU (Aug. 22) … Recorded his first-career goal, a game-winning strike in a 1-0 victory against Radford (Sept. 9) … Scored the game-winning goal against Boston College (Oct. 5) … Logged a game-tying goal against SMU (Nov. 10) in the ACC Tournament Quarterfinals, a match Wake Forest would ultimately advance in … Scored a goal in Wake Forest’s 2-1 NCAA Tournament victory over defending National Champion Clemson (Dec. 1) … Converted on both of his penalty kick attempts against SMU (Nov. 10) and Clemson (Nov. 17) en route to Wake Forest’s ACC Championship.
Background
Played with FC Cincinnati 2 in MLS Next Pro … Scored his first goal with FC Cincinnati 2 in Sept. 2023 in just his third appearance … Rated as the No. 25 prospect out of the Great Lakes Region by TopDrawerSoccer … Was a three-time letterwinner for Calvert Hall where he helped lead the program to two MIAA championships and a 24-0-1 mark during the 2022 season … Chose Wake Forest over UCLA, Duke, Virginia, Northwestern, St. Louis, Rutgers, Penn State, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Boston College, Michigan, Bucknell, Loyola-Maryland and UMBC.
Son of AnnMarie Caprio-Belal and Faycal Belal … Father played volleyball professionally for the Algerian National Team and represented in the Olympics … Has three siblings: Maya, Ramzi and Sophia … Majored is Undeclared … Born Oct. 22, 2005.
