Saturday, October 5
Los Angeles, CA
7 p.m. PT
UCLA
vs
Washington
UCLA's 2024 Senior Class
Photo by: Don Liebig/ASUCLA
Women's Soccer Hosts Washington Saturday on Senior Day
October 03, 2024 | Women's Soccer
UCLA (9-2-2, 4-0-1) vs. Washington (6-3-2, 3-2-0)
Date: Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024 – 7 p.m. PT
Location: Los Angeles, Calif. (Wallis Annenberg Stadium)
Broadcast: B1G+
Talent: Jonah Malkin, Tracey Bailey
Live Stats: uclalivestats.com
Tickets: uclabruins.com/tickets
Price: $9-17; UCLA students free with BruinCard
Parking: purchase in advance on Park Mobile app
BRUINS HOST WASHINGTON SATURDAY ON SENIOR DAY
UCLA (9-2-2, 4-0-1) continues Big Ten Conference play on Saturday, Oct. 5 with a 7pm home game at Wallis Annenberg Stadium against Washington (6-3-2, 3-2-0) on Senior Day. UCLA's 11-person senior class will be recognized prior to the game.
SENIOR SALUTE
Prior to Saturday's game, UCLA will honor its 11 seniors - graduate students Meg Boade, Ryan Campbell, Maya Evans and Sunshine Fontes; and seniors Alice Barbieri, Emma Egizii, Quincy McMahon, Ayo Oke, Jayden Perry, Lilly Reale and Lexi Wright. Since the seniors' first season in 2021, the Bruins have compiled a four-year record of 63-7-6 (.868), winning a conference title in 2021, a NCAA title in 2022 and another conference title in 2023. The 2024 Bruins are currently tied for first place in the conference. The senior ceremony will take place on the field before the game, at approximately 6:34pm. Fans are encouraged to arrive to the stadium by 6:30pm to catch the festivities.
LAST TIME OUT
Facing the nation's leading goal scorer in Minnesota forward Khyah Harper, the Bruins turned the tables on the Gophers, shutting down Harper while soaring to a 3-1 victory. Bridgette Marin-Valencia scored the game's first goal in the 34th minute, her team-leading fourth goal of the season. After Minnesota tied the game in the 60th minute, a pair of Bruins stepped up to score their first goals of the season to reclaim the lead for UCLA. Freshman Paloma Daubert recorded the game-winner in the 71st minute, and senior Quincy McMahon scored an insurance goal in the 81st. Sunshine Fontes recorded assists on both late goals.
SCOUTING THE HUSKIES
Washington has posted seven shutouts this season and ranks ninth in the nation with a 0.455 team goals against average and a 0.884 team save percentage. The Huskies are led by junior goalkeeper Mia Hamant, who ranks among the nation's leaders in save percentage (10th - .900) and goals against average (13th - 0.400). Sophomore Samiah Shell leads the Husky offense with four goals. UCLA is 24-4-2 all-time against Washington and has won eight consecutive matchups. Last season, the Bruins won 3-2 on the road in a game that saw the final three goals scored on penalty kicks, including Jayden Perry's game-winner in the 60th minute. The Huskies' last victory over the Bruins came in 2015 in Seattle, 2-1.
McMAHON WINS SIXTH CAREER CONFERENCE AWARD
Quincy McMahon was named the Big Ten Women's Soccer Defensive Player of the Week, earning her first weekly honor from the Big Ten and her sixth career conference honor. McMahon recorded one goal and one assist to help lead UCLA to a 3-1 victory over Minnesota on Sept. 29. The senior from Carmel, Ind. assisted on the game's first goal in the 34th minute and then scored a big insurance goal of her own in the 81st minute. The goal was her first of the season. McMahon and the Bruin defense shut out Wisconsin on Sept. 26, not allowing a single shot on goal and only two shots total.
SHUTOUT CITY
With nine shutouts in 13 games, UCLA and goalkeeper Ryan Campbell are among the nation's defensive leaders. Campbell is tied for first the nation with nine shutouts and ranks 12th in goals against average (0.385). The Bruin team ranks seventh in team goals against average (0.385) and is ninth in shutout percentage (0.692). UCLA began the season with five consecutive shutouts, becoming just the second team in school history to accomplish the feat (the 2014 Bruins started out with six shutouts in a row). Campbell compiled 519 consecutive shutout minutes, just shy of Katelyn Rowland's single-season school record 638-minute shutout streak in 2014.
ASSISTS QUEEN
Senior defender Quincy McMahon enters this week's game just one assist shy of breaking into UCLA's Top 10 for career assists. She currently has 22 assists, one behind Caprice Dydasco (2011-14), Jenna Richmond (2010-13) and Lauren Wilmoth (2006-09), who are tied for ninth with 23. Lauren Barnes (2007-10) would be the next target, ranking eighth with 25. McMahon led the Bruins in assists last season with seven. She also totaled seven assists as a freshman in 2021.
MEXICAN TRIO BACK WITH BRUINS
UCLA's trio of Mexican Under-20 National Team players - America Frias, Mariangela Medina and Val Vargas - are back with the Bruins after missing the first nine games while playing at the FIFA Under-20 Women's World Cup. Frias started for the Bruins in her first game back at Indiana, and Vargas played 73 minutes in that contest. Both Frias and Vargas started in the Bruins' last three games.
Mexico advanced to the round of 16 at the World Cup, where they fell in extra time to the United States, 3-2. All three Bruins played in the game. Vargas started and scored a first-half goal. Frias was a second-half sub, and Medina came into the game late in the overtime. Just two minutes after entering the game, Medina was forced into a penalty kick situation and made the save to keep Mexico within one.
FONTES MAKES TRIUMPHANT RETURN
Graduate student Sunshine Fontes has made a triumphant return back to play after missing the second half of 2023 with an ACL injury. Seeing her first action of the season at Oregon on Sept. 14, Fontes scored the tying goal in the 80th minute of UCLA's comeback victory. On Sept. 29 against Minnesota, she recorded a pair of assists, including an assist on the game-winner. Fontes' Bruin career began on the sidelines, as her 2019 season was lost rehabbing an ACL injury suffered in her final high school game. She earned Pac-12 All-Freshman honors in her return season in 2020, ranking third on the team with five goals scored, and in 2022, she led the Bruins' NCAA Championship team in scoring with 11 goals and 30 points. Fontes was the team's leading scorer in 2023 with five goals and 11 points before her injury at Washington on Sept. 28.
WHAT'S COOKING?
Junior midfielder Sofia Cook ranks second on the team in scoring with three goals and six points. All three of her goals have been game-winning goals - in the 43rd minute of a 1-0 win over Santa Clara, in the 28th minute of a 1-0 victory at Indiana, and in the 57th minute of a 2-0 win at Purdue. She ranks 19th in the nation and fifth in the Big Ten in game-winning goals. Cook has totaled 11 goals and six assists in her career.
UCLA VS. BIG TEN
The Bruins are now 106-18-7 (.836) all-time against Big Ten teams and 30-5-1 (.847) vs. their new conference mates. UCLA has been extra formidable against the Big Ten in the NCAA Tournament, sporting a 12-2 record.
BRUINS EARN NATIONAL RECOGNITION
Five UCLA women's soccer players earned national preseason recognition ahead of the 2024 season. Senior defender Lilly Reale and graduate goalkeeper Ryan Campbell were selected to MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List, the Top Drawer Soccer Preseason Best XI first team and the NCAA Division I Women's Players to Watch List. They were joined on the NCAA Players to Watch list by senior defender Quincy McMahon and graduate midfielder Meg Boade. Defender Nicki Fraser was selected to the Top Drawer Soccer Preseason Freshman Team. On the conference front, Reale, Boade and Emma Egizii were selected to the Big Ten Players to Watch List.
WELCOME BACK
UCLA returns seven starters from last season's conference championship team and seven all-conference players in Defensive Player of the Year Lilly Reale, Quincy McMahon, Sofia Cook, Ayo Oke, Jayden Perry, Sunshine Fontes and Lexi Wright. Additionally, Val Vargas earned all-freshman honors a year ago. Wright, however, is out for the year with a knee injury.
The Bruins' senior class has been prolific. Reale, McMahon, Perry, Wright and Emma Egizii entered together in 2021 and won a conference title in 2021, a NCAA title in 2022 and another conference title in 2023. They have combined for seven all-conference honors and have scored 106 points (33 goals and 40 assists) collectively while posting an overall record of 63-7-6. Reale is a two-time All-American and was the Honda Award winner in 2022, as well as the Most Outstanding Defensive Player at the 2022 College Cup.
Although not in that senior class, Fontes has also accomplished much in her time at UCLA. After redshirting the 2019 season with a torn ACL, she competed in the 2020 season and helped UCLA win the Pac-12 title, the first of three Fontes has been a part of (2020, 2021, 2023). She was the leading scorer for the 2022 NCAA champion Bruins with 11 goals and 30 points and now has 22 career goals, 15 assists and 59 points.
IMPACT TRANSFERS
UCLA welcomed four experienced transfers to the squad in 2024, including a pair of graduate transfers in goalkeeper Ryan Campbell (Stanford) and midfielder Meg Boade (Northwestern) who were named to the United Soccer Coaches NCAA Division I Players to Watch List. Campbell was the Pac-12 Goalkeeper of the Year and a first-team All-Region selection after recording 11 solo and two combined shutouts in 2023. She also led the conference with a 0.601 goals against average. Boade broke Northwestern's single-season assists record in 2023 with 14 assists and ranked second in the nation in assists per game with a 0.78 average. She is a two-time All-North Region and All-Big Ten honoree. UCLA also brought in a pair of former conference foes in senior midfielder Alice Barbieri (Oregon) and junior forward Lily Boyden (Washington State). Barbieri played in 55 games with 36 starts over her first three seasons and has nine career points. Boyden was a Pac-12 All-Freshman selection in 2022 after playing in 18 of 19 games for the Cougars and totaling two goals and three assists. Boyden did not play in 2023 after suffering an injury in the spring.
All four transfers have seen significant minutes in the Bruins' first 13 games. Campbell has recorded a nation-leading nine shutouts and holds a goals against average of 0.38 while playing every minute of every game. Boade has started in 11 games and scored the game-winning goal against No. 16 BYU, along with an assist against UC Riverside. Boyden has started in eight contests and played in 13, and Barbieri has started in seven games and played in 11.
NO. 2 RECRUITING CLASS
The Bruins boast Top Drawer Soccer's No. 2 recruiting class in the nation, led by six rookies ranked in the Top 50 in No. 12 Nicki Fraser, No. 15 Kamryn Winger, No. 19 Bella Winn, No. 39 Avery Robinson, No. 46 Kara Croone and No. 50 Paloma Daubert. Sammy Sanchez is also ranked at No. 64. Also joining the team are freshmen goalkeepers Layla Armas and Mariangela Medina and forward Jordan Geis. Five of the freshmen made their collegiate debuts in the season opener. Fraser, Winn and Geis earned starts, and Daubert and Sanchez logged double-digit minutes off the bench. Robinson made her debut against UC Riverside and recorded one shot and had a near-goal hit the crossbar at Cal Poly. Geis has started in 10 games to lead the rookies, while Fraser has nine starts. Geis's game-winner at Oregon was her first collegiate goal and led her to her first Big Ten Conference Freshman of the Week award. Daubert scored the game-winning goal against Minnesota, the first goal of her collegiate career.
SISTER ACT
Sophomore forward Sophie Reale made her collegiate debut in the season opener after redshirting the 2023 campaign, playing 36 minutes and recording two shots, including one on goal. The game marked the first time Reale and her older sister Lilly have played together in their collegiate careers and the first time that two Bruin sisters have played in the same game since Anika and Karina Rodriguez played together in 2019. Both Reale sisters made the starting lineup for the first time in the Cal Poly match, with Lilly scoring the game-winning goal.
NWSL BRUINS
A total of 20 UCLA women's soccer alumnae have been on NWSL rosters in 2024, including four from the 2023 squad. Reilyn Turner, a 99-point scorer for the Bruins and a 2023 All-American, was the No. 6 overall draft pick for Racing Louisville FC and is now playing with the Portland Thorns. Ally Lemos, who started every game of her two-year collegiate career and was a two-time all-region selection, was drafted by the Orlando Pride as the No. 9 overall pick. Ally Cook did not get drafted but earned a roster spot with the Chicago Red Stars. Cook ranked second on the team in scoring last season with nine goals and 19 points. Additionally, JaNae DeFazio was added to the Kansas City Current roster as a National Team replacement player in July and made her debut on July 28 at the Summer Cup against Pachuca. DeFazio is now playing for Racing Power FC in Portugal.
ACADEMIC HONORS
For the 13th consecutive year, the UCLA women's soccer team has won a United Soccer Coaches College Team Academic Award, recognizing exemplary performance in the classroom during the 2023-24 academic year. The Bruins posted a team GPA of 3.25, their fifth consecutive year over 3.25. A total of 17 players were named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll in 2023 a year after posting a record 18 honorees. The Bruins also received UCLA's Most Improved GPA Award for Large Teams for the 2023-24 academic year.
FOLLOW THE BRUINS
Follow UCLA Women's Soccer at @UCLAWSoccer on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok and /UCLAWSoccer on Facebook. The Bruins lead all collegiate soccer teams, men or women, in Instagram followers with 114k.
COMING UP
UCLA will take its final regular season road trip of the season next week when it plays at Northwestern and Illinois on Oct. 10 and 13.
Date: Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024 – 7 p.m. PT
Location: Los Angeles, Calif. (Wallis Annenberg Stadium)
Broadcast: B1G+
Talent: Jonah Malkin, Tracey Bailey
Live Stats: uclalivestats.com
Tickets: uclabruins.com/tickets
Price: $9-17; UCLA students free with BruinCard
Parking: purchase in advance on Park Mobile app
BRUINS HOST WASHINGTON SATURDAY ON SENIOR DAY
UCLA (9-2-2, 4-0-1) continues Big Ten Conference play on Saturday, Oct. 5 with a 7pm home game at Wallis Annenberg Stadium against Washington (6-3-2, 3-2-0) on Senior Day. UCLA's 11-person senior class will be recognized prior to the game.
SENIOR SALUTE
Prior to Saturday's game, UCLA will honor its 11 seniors - graduate students Meg Boade, Ryan Campbell, Maya Evans and Sunshine Fontes; and seniors Alice Barbieri, Emma Egizii, Quincy McMahon, Ayo Oke, Jayden Perry, Lilly Reale and Lexi Wright. Since the seniors' first season in 2021, the Bruins have compiled a four-year record of 63-7-6 (.868), winning a conference title in 2021, a NCAA title in 2022 and another conference title in 2023. The 2024 Bruins are currently tied for first place in the conference. The senior ceremony will take place on the field before the game, at approximately 6:34pm. Fans are encouraged to arrive to the stadium by 6:30pm to catch the festivities.
LAST TIME OUT
Facing the nation's leading goal scorer in Minnesota forward Khyah Harper, the Bruins turned the tables on the Gophers, shutting down Harper while soaring to a 3-1 victory. Bridgette Marin-Valencia scored the game's first goal in the 34th minute, her team-leading fourth goal of the season. After Minnesota tied the game in the 60th minute, a pair of Bruins stepped up to score their first goals of the season to reclaim the lead for UCLA. Freshman Paloma Daubert recorded the game-winner in the 71st minute, and senior Quincy McMahon scored an insurance goal in the 81st. Sunshine Fontes recorded assists on both late goals.
SCOUTING THE HUSKIES
Washington has posted seven shutouts this season and ranks ninth in the nation with a 0.455 team goals against average and a 0.884 team save percentage. The Huskies are led by junior goalkeeper Mia Hamant, who ranks among the nation's leaders in save percentage (10th - .900) and goals against average (13th - 0.400). Sophomore Samiah Shell leads the Husky offense with four goals. UCLA is 24-4-2 all-time against Washington and has won eight consecutive matchups. Last season, the Bruins won 3-2 on the road in a game that saw the final three goals scored on penalty kicks, including Jayden Perry's game-winner in the 60th minute. The Huskies' last victory over the Bruins came in 2015 in Seattle, 2-1.
McMAHON WINS SIXTH CAREER CONFERENCE AWARD
Quincy McMahon was named the Big Ten Women's Soccer Defensive Player of the Week, earning her first weekly honor from the Big Ten and her sixth career conference honor. McMahon recorded one goal and one assist to help lead UCLA to a 3-1 victory over Minnesota on Sept. 29. The senior from Carmel, Ind. assisted on the game's first goal in the 34th minute and then scored a big insurance goal of her own in the 81st minute. The goal was her first of the season. McMahon and the Bruin defense shut out Wisconsin on Sept. 26, not allowing a single shot on goal and only two shots total.
SHUTOUT CITY
With nine shutouts in 13 games, UCLA and goalkeeper Ryan Campbell are among the nation's defensive leaders. Campbell is tied for first the nation with nine shutouts and ranks 12th in goals against average (0.385). The Bruin team ranks seventh in team goals against average (0.385) and is ninth in shutout percentage (0.692). UCLA began the season with five consecutive shutouts, becoming just the second team in school history to accomplish the feat (the 2014 Bruins started out with six shutouts in a row). Campbell compiled 519 consecutive shutout minutes, just shy of Katelyn Rowland's single-season school record 638-minute shutout streak in 2014.
ASSISTS QUEEN
Senior defender Quincy McMahon enters this week's game just one assist shy of breaking into UCLA's Top 10 for career assists. She currently has 22 assists, one behind Caprice Dydasco (2011-14), Jenna Richmond (2010-13) and Lauren Wilmoth (2006-09), who are tied for ninth with 23. Lauren Barnes (2007-10) would be the next target, ranking eighth with 25. McMahon led the Bruins in assists last season with seven. She also totaled seven assists as a freshman in 2021.
MEXICAN TRIO BACK WITH BRUINS
UCLA's trio of Mexican Under-20 National Team players - America Frias, Mariangela Medina and Val Vargas - are back with the Bruins after missing the first nine games while playing at the FIFA Under-20 Women's World Cup. Frias started for the Bruins in her first game back at Indiana, and Vargas played 73 minutes in that contest. Both Frias and Vargas started in the Bruins' last three games.
Mexico advanced to the round of 16 at the World Cup, where they fell in extra time to the United States, 3-2. All three Bruins played in the game. Vargas started and scored a first-half goal. Frias was a second-half sub, and Medina came into the game late in the overtime. Just two minutes after entering the game, Medina was forced into a penalty kick situation and made the save to keep Mexico within one.
FONTES MAKES TRIUMPHANT RETURN
Graduate student Sunshine Fontes has made a triumphant return back to play after missing the second half of 2023 with an ACL injury. Seeing her first action of the season at Oregon on Sept. 14, Fontes scored the tying goal in the 80th minute of UCLA's comeback victory. On Sept. 29 against Minnesota, she recorded a pair of assists, including an assist on the game-winner. Fontes' Bruin career began on the sidelines, as her 2019 season was lost rehabbing an ACL injury suffered in her final high school game. She earned Pac-12 All-Freshman honors in her return season in 2020, ranking third on the team with five goals scored, and in 2022, she led the Bruins' NCAA Championship team in scoring with 11 goals and 30 points. Fontes was the team's leading scorer in 2023 with five goals and 11 points before her injury at Washington on Sept. 28.
WHAT'S COOKING?
Junior midfielder Sofia Cook ranks second on the team in scoring with three goals and six points. All three of her goals have been game-winning goals - in the 43rd minute of a 1-0 win over Santa Clara, in the 28th minute of a 1-0 victory at Indiana, and in the 57th minute of a 2-0 win at Purdue. She ranks 19th in the nation and fifth in the Big Ten in game-winning goals. Cook has totaled 11 goals and six assists in her career.
UCLA VS. BIG TEN
The Bruins are now 106-18-7 (.836) all-time against Big Ten teams and 30-5-1 (.847) vs. their new conference mates. UCLA has been extra formidable against the Big Ten in the NCAA Tournament, sporting a 12-2 record.
BRUINS EARN NATIONAL RECOGNITION
Five UCLA women's soccer players earned national preseason recognition ahead of the 2024 season. Senior defender Lilly Reale and graduate goalkeeper Ryan Campbell were selected to MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List, the Top Drawer Soccer Preseason Best XI first team and the NCAA Division I Women's Players to Watch List. They were joined on the NCAA Players to Watch list by senior defender Quincy McMahon and graduate midfielder Meg Boade. Defender Nicki Fraser was selected to the Top Drawer Soccer Preseason Freshman Team. On the conference front, Reale, Boade and Emma Egizii were selected to the Big Ten Players to Watch List.
WELCOME BACK
UCLA returns seven starters from last season's conference championship team and seven all-conference players in Defensive Player of the Year Lilly Reale, Quincy McMahon, Sofia Cook, Ayo Oke, Jayden Perry, Sunshine Fontes and Lexi Wright. Additionally, Val Vargas earned all-freshman honors a year ago. Wright, however, is out for the year with a knee injury.
The Bruins' senior class has been prolific. Reale, McMahon, Perry, Wright and Emma Egizii entered together in 2021 and won a conference title in 2021, a NCAA title in 2022 and another conference title in 2023. They have combined for seven all-conference honors and have scored 106 points (33 goals and 40 assists) collectively while posting an overall record of 63-7-6. Reale is a two-time All-American and was the Honda Award winner in 2022, as well as the Most Outstanding Defensive Player at the 2022 College Cup.
Although not in that senior class, Fontes has also accomplished much in her time at UCLA. After redshirting the 2019 season with a torn ACL, she competed in the 2020 season and helped UCLA win the Pac-12 title, the first of three Fontes has been a part of (2020, 2021, 2023). She was the leading scorer for the 2022 NCAA champion Bruins with 11 goals and 30 points and now has 22 career goals, 15 assists and 59 points.
IMPACT TRANSFERS
UCLA welcomed four experienced transfers to the squad in 2024, including a pair of graduate transfers in goalkeeper Ryan Campbell (Stanford) and midfielder Meg Boade (Northwestern) who were named to the United Soccer Coaches NCAA Division I Players to Watch List. Campbell was the Pac-12 Goalkeeper of the Year and a first-team All-Region selection after recording 11 solo and two combined shutouts in 2023. She also led the conference with a 0.601 goals against average. Boade broke Northwestern's single-season assists record in 2023 with 14 assists and ranked second in the nation in assists per game with a 0.78 average. She is a two-time All-North Region and All-Big Ten honoree. UCLA also brought in a pair of former conference foes in senior midfielder Alice Barbieri (Oregon) and junior forward Lily Boyden (Washington State). Barbieri played in 55 games with 36 starts over her first three seasons and has nine career points. Boyden was a Pac-12 All-Freshman selection in 2022 after playing in 18 of 19 games for the Cougars and totaling two goals and three assists. Boyden did not play in 2023 after suffering an injury in the spring.
All four transfers have seen significant minutes in the Bruins' first 13 games. Campbell has recorded a nation-leading nine shutouts and holds a goals against average of 0.38 while playing every minute of every game. Boade has started in 11 games and scored the game-winning goal against No. 16 BYU, along with an assist against UC Riverside. Boyden has started in eight contests and played in 13, and Barbieri has started in seven games and played in 11.
NO. 2 RECRUITING CLASS
The Bruins boast Top Drawer Soccer's No. 2 recruiting class in the nation, led by six rookies ranked in the Top 50 in No. 12 Nicki Fraser, No. 15 Kamryn Winger, No. 19 Bella Winn, No. 39 Avery Robinson, No. 46 Kara Croone and No. 50 Paloma Daubert. Sammy Sanchez is also ranked at No. 64. Also joining the team are freshmen goalkeepers Layla Armas and Mariangela Medina and forward Jordan Geis. Five of the freshmen made their collegiate debuts in the season opener. Fraser, Winn and Geis earned starts, and Daubert and Sanchez logged double-digit minutes off the bench. Robinson made her debut against UC Riverside and recorded one shot and had a near-goal hit the crossbar at Cal Poly. Geis has started in 10 games to lead the rookies, while Fraser has nine starts. Geis's game-winner at Oregon was her first collegiate goal and led her to her first Big Ten Conference Freshman of the Week award. Daubert scored the game-winning goal against Minnesota, the first goal of her collegiate career.
SISTER ACT
Sophomore forward Sophie Reale made her collegiate debut in the season opener after redshirting the 2023 campaign, playing 36 minutes and recording two shots, including one on goal. The game marked the first time Reale and her older sister Lilly have played together in their collegiate careers and the first time that two Bruin sisters have played in the same game since Anika and Karina Rodriguez played together in 2019. Both Reale sisters made the starting lineup for the first time in the Cal Poly match, with Lilly scoring the game-winning goal.
NWSL BRUINS
A total of 20 UCLA women's soccer alumnae have been on NWSL rosters in 2024, including four from the 2023 squad. Reilyn Turner, a 99-point scorer for the Bruins and a 2023 All-American, was the No. 6 overall draft pick for Racing Louisville FC and is now playing with the Portland Thorns. Ally Lemos, who started every game of her two-year collegiate career and was a two-time all-region selection, was drafted by the Orlando Pride as the No. 9 overall pick. Ally Cook did not get drafted but earned a roster spot with the Chicago Red Stars. Cook ranked second on the team in scoring last season with nine goals and 19 points. Additionally, JaNae DeFazio was added to the Kansas City Current roster as a National Team replacement player in July and made her debut on July 28 at the Summer Cup against Pachuca. DeFazio is now playing for Racing Power FC in Portugal.
ACADEMIC HONORS
For the 13th consecutive year, the UCLA women's soccer team has won a United Soccer Coaches College Team Academic Award, recognizing exemplary performance in the classroom during the 2023-24 academic year. The Bruins posted a team GPA of 3.25, their fifth consecutive year over 3.25. A total of 17 players were named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll in 2023 a year after posting a record 18 honorees. The Bruins also received UCLA's Most Improved GPA Award for Large Teams for the 2023-24 academic year.
FOLLOW THE BRUINS
Follow UCLA Women's Soccer at @UCLAWSoccer on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok and /UCLAWSoccer on Facebook. The Bruins lead all collegiate soccer teams, men or women, in Instagram followers with 114k.
COMING UP
UCLA will take its final regular season road trip of the season next week when it plays at Northwestern and Illinois on Oct. 10 and 13.
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