TAMPA, Fla. – The USL Championship today announced the Team of the Week for Week 10 of the 2025 regular season, with Charleston Battery forward MD Myers named Player of the Week presented by Konami eFootball with a match-winning, nine-minute brace against the Tampa Bay Rowdies.

Through 74 minutes of play on Saturday, Myers scored goals in the 19th and 28th minutes to extend Charleston's league winning streak to five matches. The 24-year-old has tallied a goal contribution in four of his five USL Championship appearances this season, scoring the match-winning goal in each of the three matches in which he's found the back of the net. Myers' Player of the Week recognition is the second of the season and third of his professional career.

"It's always big when we can go on the road at a tough place to play like Tampa Bay and pick up three points," Myers said. "We wanted to get after them early, especially with both teams on short rest and playing three games in a week, and that's exactly what we did.

"When our entire front line is firing, we're a real problem, and I think that's what was going on well in the first 30 minutes of the match. It also takes the pressure off one guy from having to push to get the goals, and I just made sure to get in the right positions and trusted the boys would find me. Very happy to get the two goals and to help the team get over the line in a big game."

"We started with a good intensity; there's a way that both teams want to play, and we wanted to use a couple of things to our advantage, and we did straight away," Charleston Head Coach Ben Pirmann said of the match. "I thought we had really good patterns and movements. 

"One thing with [Tampa Bay's] extended press is you have to be able to win second balls, and we did that on the second goal; great movement with Juan David [Torres] and Cal [Jennings] and MD [Myers] going forward. We want to keep the ball in the attacking half and force them to change shape, force them to change a little bit of an identity and create the rebound. I just thought what we do well, we did very well, especially for the first half."

The Championship's Player of the Week is selected by the USL National Media Panel, which is made up of representatives from each media market in the Championship. Myers finished with 38%, while North Carolina's Jake McGuire finished second on 31%.

GK – Jake McGuire, North Carolina FC: The 30-year-old recorded his third clean sheet of the season in a five-save shutout victory against Orange County. McGuire led all goalkeepers on the week with 1.33 goals conceded below expected.

D – Delentz Pierre, FC Tulsa: The two-time USL Championship title-winner registered the first assist of his professional career, helping Kalil ElMedkhar's equalizer in the 86th minute. Pierre totaled nine duels won, three chances created, two tackles won, two recoveries, two fouls won and a 68% passing accuracy rate.

D – Matt Mahoney, Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC: Colorado Springs' captain helped the defending champions to their first clean sheet of the year, providing six accurate long passes, five duels won, three interceptions, two completed dribbles, two chances created, two clearances, two recoveries, one block and an 87% passing accuracy rate.

D – Keegan Tingey, Loudoun United FC: Tingey tallied the winner against Lexington via a 48th-minute penalty kick conversion. The 24-year-old completed 89% of his 57 passes and added three accurate long balls and three clearances.

M – Florian Valot, Loudoun United FC: The 32-year-old Frenchman constructed the 12th multi-goal-contribution match of his professional career, providing a goal and an assist in Loudoun's 5-1 win against Lexington. Valot finished with a 76% passing accuracy rate, four recoveries, four duels won, three chances created, two shots on target and two accurate long passes.

M – Arturo Rodriguez, Charleston Battery: Rodriguez helped Charleston to a 3-1 road victory against Tampa Bay, recording an 89% passing accuracy rate, six duels won, five chances created, three recoveries, three fouls won, two completed dribbles and two accurate long passes.

M – Abdellatif Aboukoura, Loudoun United FC: The former Egypt international added to his career-best 2025 campaign with an eighth goal across all competitions this year, helping Loudoun down Lexington, 5-1. Aboukoura finished with a 94% passing accuracy rate, seven recoveries, three completed long passes, two tackles won, two shots on target, two interceptions and two duels won.

M – Jorge Hernández, San Antonio FC: Hernández scored his fifth of the season in a losing effort against Oakland on Saturday. The 24-year-old Mexican contributed with an additional five accurate crosses, five duels won, four chances created, three completed long passes, two recoveries and two fouls won, all while completing 91% of his 44 passes.

F – Cal Jennings, Charleston Battery: In the second meeting with his former club this season, Jennings again scored the opener against the Rowdies before going on to add an assist on MD Myers' 19th-minute winner, three duels won, two chances created and two fouls earned.

F – Hope Avayevu, Phoenix Rising FC: Avayevu opened the scoring with a 12th-minute goal before assisting Darius Johnson's 62nd-minute winner in a 2-1 road victory against New Mexico. The 22-year-old Ghanaian finished with a 77% passing accuracy rate, six recoveries, five duels won, three shots on target, two chances created, two interceptions and two fouls won.

F – MD Myers, Charleston Battery: With a goal contribution in four of his five USL Championship matches this season, Myers provided a match-winning, nine-minute brace to help Charleston upend Tampa Bay in St. Petersburg. Through 74 minutes, the 24-year-old registered a 79% passing accuracy rate, three duels won and two recoveries.

Coach – Pa-Modou Kah, Phoenix Rising FC: The first-year Phoenix head coach guided his side to their first victory in over a month, helping Rising FC avenge its 2024 USL Championship Playoffs loss against New Mexico in the process.

Bench – Antony Siaha (HFD), Noah Dollenmayer (ELP), Lee Desmond (SAC), Paco Craig (NC), Chris Allan (CHS), Peter Wilson (OAK), Zach Ryan (LDN)