Peter Lak (born April 20, 1973) is a retired American

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

defender who played professionally in the

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and

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Youth

Lak grew up in

Huntington Beach, California Huntington Beach is a seaside city in Orange County, California, Orange County in Southern California, located southeast of Downtown Los Angeles. The city is named after American businessman Henry E. Huntington. The population was 198,711 duri ...

, graduating from

Ocean View High School Ocean View High School (OVHS) is a public comprehensive college-prep academy located in Huntington Beach, California. OVHS was established in 1976; their mascot is the Seahawks. Currently, there are approximately 1,470 enrolled students. It is par ...

in 1991. He attended Cal Poly Pomona where he played on the men's soccer team in 1991 and 1992. He transferred to Cal State Fullerton after his sophomore year and played on the Titan's soccer team in 1993 and 1994.

Professional

In 1995, Lak played for the Los Angeles Salsa U-23 in the USISL Pro League. On July 25, 1996, midway through the

1996 A-League The 1996 A-League season was the seventh and final season of the American Professional Soccer League, A-League. In 1997, the league merged to form the A-League (1995–2004), USISL A-League. Regular season A significant number of postponed mat ...

season, he joined the Colorado Foxes of the

A-League A-League Men (known as the Isuzu UTE A-League for sponsorship reasons) is the highest-level professional men's soccer league in Australia and New Zealand. At the top of the Australian league system, it is the country's premier men's competiti ...

. In 1997, he signed with the Orange County Zodiac which served as the farm team for the Los Angeles Galaxy. On July 3, 1997, the Galaxy called Lak up from the Zodiac. He remained with the Galaxy, playing two games, before being waived on November 14, 1997.L.A. BEAT : GALAXY DEFENDER LAK WAIVED
/ref> In 1998, Lak returned to Orange County and played for them through the 2000 season.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lak, Peter 1973 births Living people American men's soccer players Cal State Fullerton Titans men's soccer players Colorado Foxes players LA Galaxy players Los Angeles Salsa U-23 players Major League Soccer players Orange County Blue Star players A-League (1995–2004) players Cal Poly Pomona Broncos men's soccer players Place of birth missing (living people) Sportspeople from Huntington Beach, California Soccer players from Orange County, California Men's association football defenders Ocean View High School alumni