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2022 MIT Women's Soccer Roster

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0 Ava Gillikin

  • Position GK
  • Height 5-9
  • Class Senior
  • High School Hunterdon Central Regional
  • Hometown Flemington, N.J.
  • Major Environmental Engineering

Biography

Career Highs
Saves 10 at Williams (October 9, 2022)
Minutes 110:00 vs. Brandeis (September 1, 2021)

In the MIT Record Books (At Conclusion of Most Recent Season or Career):
- Tied third most shutouts in a season (10 - 2019)
- Tied for fourth in shutouts in a career (17)


Accolades:
- CoSIDA Second Team Academic All-America (2022, 2021, 2020)
- CoSIDA Academic All-District (2022, 2021, 2020)
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference (2022, 2021, 2020)
- NEWMAC Rookie of the Year (2019)
- NEWMAC All-Conference Second Team (2019)
- NEWMAC Defensive Athlete of the Week (Sept. 3, 2019)
- Individual NCAA Division III Leader in goals against average (.124) and save percentage (.959) (2019)
- NEWISA All-New England First Team (2019)
- United Soccer Coaches All-New England Third Team (2019)


2022:
- Appeared in 16 games with eight starts
- Went 5-3-1 with two shutouts
- Allowed six goals in 951:41 minutes of action


2021: 
- Appeared in 17 games making 10 starts
- Finished the season with a 8-2-1 record
- Allowed just 10 goals while posting five shutouts
- Made 38 saves and finished with a .792 save percentage 


2020:
- Season Cancelled Due to Covid-19


2019: 
- Helped MIT lead NCAA Division III as a team in goals against average (.162), save percentage (.941) and shutout percentage (.833)
- Helped MIT break ten team records and to its third straight NEWMAC title
- Led MIT to its highest ranking in program history at No. 5 in the United Soccer Coaches D3 National Poll
- Broke three individual single season records (save percentage, fewest goals, goals against average)
- Posted a record of 16-0-2 in net with ten shutouts and a goals against average of 0.12 in 1446:28 minutes
- Did not allow a goal over the first 711:40 minutes of the season and her career
- Started in 19 matches as a first-year


Off the Field at MIT:
- Majoring in environmental engineering
- Minoring in urban studies and planning
- 2022 Macquarie Green Investment Group Private Equity Summer Analyst 
- CarboSeq Research Intern for Wageningen University & Research (2021)
- Sustainability Curriculum Intern for Citizens' Climate Lobby (2020) 
- Citizens' Climate Lobby Intern
- Researching at Wageningen whether or not the climate mitigation impacts carbon sequestration induces can be offset by detrimental nitrous oxide emissions as a result of increasing soil organic carbon.
- Studied fluorescent proteins in bacteria in MIT's Cordero Lab
- Alpha Phi


Favorite Sports Memory:
- Winning our school's first state championship in 2016


Favorite Moment as MIT Athlete
- Hosting the Elite 8! Being able to play on our home turf in some of the biggest games of the year was such a gift. 


High School:
- A 2019 graduate of Hunterdon Central Regional High School
- Earned three varsity letters as a member of the soccer team
- 2018 Team Captain
- Hunterdon Central Team MVP 2018
- Two-time Hunterdon County Girls Soccer All-Area Team
- Vote No. 3 Junior and Senior Girl's Soccer Player in New Jersey on NJ.com
- 2018 NJGSCA All State Team
- 2018 All Skyland Conference First Team
- 2018 All Group IV Third Team
- 2018 Hunterdon County Democrat Player of the Year
- 2019 Zuegner Memorial Award (best female scholar athlete in high school),
- 2019 NJSIAA scholar athlete award (best overall scholar athlete in high school of 3200 students)
- Four-time Hunterdon/Warren/Sussex County Champion
- Two-time Group IV Central Sectional Champion
- 2016 Skyland Conference Champion
- 2016 NJ Group IV State Champion
- Math National Honor Society
- Science National Honor Society
- Honor Roll every semester
- Italian American Club of Hunterdon County Scholarship
- Zuenger Memorial Award
- NJSIAA Scholar Athlete Award
- Gale McNally Memorial Scholarship
- HCRHS Statistics Department Scholarship
- Hunterdon Central Iron Red Devil Scholarship


Club:
- Players Development Academy
- Composite ECNL National Finalist 2019

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Historical Player Information

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    2019First Year

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    2020Sophomore

    GK
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    2021Junior

    GK
    5'9"
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    C

    2022Senior

    GK
    5'9"
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    C