SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio FC announced on Tuesday the club has signed former OKC Energy FC defender Cyprian Hedrick for the 2017 USL season pending USL and federation approval, the club announced today. Per club policy, terms of the contract were not disclosed.

An ever-present for Energy FC last season, Hedrick started and played 90 minutes in 29 of the club’s 30 USL regular season matches and ranked seventh in the USL in total minutes played (2,610). The center back helped lead OKC to the third-most clean sheets in the league (13) while only allowing 27 goals, which ranked as the ninth-fewest in the USL and fourth-fewest in the Western Conference. Hedrick also appeared in both of Energy FC’s USL Cup Playoffs matches last season, tallying 179 minutes of action.

2016 marked Hedrick’s third year with Energy FC after he joined the club in 2014. Over the course of his three seasons in OKC, the 27-year-old appeared in 78 of the club’s 86 regular season matches, tallying 5,737 minutes played and helping the club record 33 shutouts.

“We are excited to have Cyprian join us for 2017,” said SAFC Head Coach Darren Powell. “He’s a player that we have watched this past season with OKC, and that I have watched in seasons before in Arizona, with Sporting KC and even when he was at Coastal Carolina. He’s always impressed me with his approach to the game and he is a good defender who is going to add experience to our back line.”