MakalaWoods

Prior to UK:

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• Academic All-B1G (2021, 2022).

SENIOR 2023

• CSC Academic All-District.
• Started all 17 matches on the season.
• Scored three goals on the season, matching her career high, and picked up three assists, a career-best mark.
• Picked up her first-career assist on Aug. 31 at Louisville.
• Tallied two assists on Sept. 10 vs. Pepperdine, the first multi-assist match of her career.
• Scored the opening goal on Sept. 24 vs. No. 19 Michigan.
• Scored the match-winner on Oct. 15 vs. Purdue.
• Scored in the season final on Oct. 22 vs. No. 25 Nebraska.

JUNIOR 2022

• Academic All-B1G
• Appeared in all 18 games on the season, all coming off the bench.
• Finished second on the team with three goals scored, a new career-best.
• Scored the first goal of her collegiate career on Aug. 21 vs. Toledo.
• Scored her second goal of the season on Oct. 13 at Nebraska, on a solo run from the halfway line.
• Scored her third goal of the season, a game-tying effort, on Oct. 23 vs. Minnesota.

SOPHOMORE 2021

• Academic All-B1G.
• Appeared in two games for the Illini, firing one shot in each game.

FRESHMAN 2020

• Made Illini debut in the season opener at Purdue, 2/18/21, recording 23 minutes of play.
• Appeared in three games for the Illini, amassing 71 minutes played.

HIGH SCHOOL

• Lettered in her only season on the pitch for Monroe High School soccer
• Led Monroe to a 20-1 record and an appearance in the OHSAA regional finals
• First team All-Southwestern Buckeye League honoree
• Three-time letter winner for the MHS Fighting Hornets track & field program
• Played three years with the Cincinnati Development Academy
• Eight-time state champion with Cincinnati United
• 2017 Region 2 Finalist
• Played for the Cincinnati Sirens WPSL team
• Three-time Principal’s Scholar Award recipient