USD Women's Soccer 2008

NATALIE GARCIA

5-7 •Freshman• Defender Valley Center, Calif. (San Pasqual HS)

5-8 • Freshman • Defender Long Beach, CA (Wilson HS)

HIGH SCHOOL: Earned four varsity letters in soccer while playing at Woodrow Wilson High School... helped lead her team to four consecutive Moore League Champi– onships...as a senior she helped lead her team to the NSCAA/ Rivals.com Na– tional Championship, and a CIF-SS Championship, while tallying 11 goals and 11 assists...as a senior, was named first-team AII-CIF– SS, was named the Moore League Defender of the Year, the LA Times Player of the Year...was named the Press Telegram Dream Team Player of the Year and was named to Rise Magazine's All-Area team... as a junior was named first-team AII-CIF-SS, and was named first-team All– Moore League. PERSONAL: Danielle Jil– lian Russell was born on August 23, 1990... she is the daughter of Debi and Chris Russell...was heav– ily recruited by Cal, Santa Clara, Loyola Marymount, Harvard and Pepperdine... chose to attend USO because of the location, academic reputation and because of the strong women's soccer program.

HIGH SCHOOL: Earned four varsity letters in soc– cer while playing at San Pasqual High School. .. helped lead her team to three Valley League Cham– pionships ... as a junior was named the CIF and Valley League Player of the Year after scoring nine goals and 11 assists ... as a junior helped lead her team to the CIF Championship ... was named first-team AII-CIF as a junior... was a member of the Surf Club team ...helped her club team reach the state cup finals four times and won two regional champion– .ship titles..she was also a ember of the Cal South ODP from 2004-06 and an ODP Regional Pool mem– ber in 2006. PERSONAL: Natalie Ann Garcia was born on Janu– ary 30, 1990 ... she is the daughter of Joe and Le– onor Garcia ...was heavily recruited by Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount, Ne– vada and UC Riverside ... chose to attend USO because of the academics,

the team chemistry and because of the beautiful -focation.