Club Career
Catliff was selected to the All-Ivy League First team as a forward in 1983, 1984, and 1986 while for the Crimson at Harvard University. He was also named to the All-American First Team in 1986.
Catliff was a Canadian Soccer League star, scoring the second most goals of anyone in the League's six year history with 69 goals in total. He was a league season scoring champion in 1988 with 22 goals and in 1990 with 19 goals. He began his CSL career in 1987 playing for the League's inaugural champions, the Calgary Kickers. He then spent the next six seasons with the Vancouver 86ers, who became the CSL champions in four consecutive seasons from 1988 through 1991. Ligament injuries to both knees forced him to retire from professional play in 1994 after two years on the 86ers in the American Professional Soccer League.
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