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2021 MIT Women's Soccer Roster

27 Kayla Villa

  • Position D
  • Height 5-9
  • Class Junior
  • High School St. Charles East
  • Hometown St. Charles, Ill.
  • Major Computation & Cognition

Biography

Career Highs
Goals 1 Three Times - Most Recently vs. Mount Holyoke (September 25, 2021)
Assists N/A N/A
Points 2 Three Times - Most Recently vs. Mount Holyoke (September 25, 2021) 
Shots 2 vs. Mount Holyoke (September 25, 2021)

Accolades:
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference (2021, 2020)


2021: [Season Stats]
- Made seven starts while appearing in 19 matches
- Scored two goals during the year
- Helped the MIT defense post 18 shutouts and allow just 11 goals
- The Engineers finished the season with a program-best 22 wins and made the teams first-ever Elite 8


2020:
- Season Cancelled Due to Covid-19


2019: [SEASON STATS]
- Appeared in eight matches as a first-year
- Registered two goals for four points
- Posted first career goal in 7-0 win at Worcester State on October 1
- Helped MIT lead NCAA Division III as a team in goals against average (.162), save percentage (.941) and shutout percentage (.833)
- Offensively as a team ranked in the top ten nationally in goals, shots on goal per game, points, shots per game and assists
- 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


Favorite Memory as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Winning in OT to go to the Elite 8 for the first time in program history


Favorite Sports Memory:
- Playing for my high school and being with my teammates every single day


Off the Field at MIT:
- Majoring in Computation & Cognition
- Summer Associate at BCG summer 2021
- Internships at Jane Street and Boston Consulting Group 
- Machine Learning Intern at Imperial College London Department of Infectious Disease January 2021- Developed a machine learning pipeline to detect drug-resistant mutations in pathogenic bacteria.
- Director of Philanthropy for Alpha Phi
- Researcher in the MIT Senseable City Lab and for the Health Sciences and Technology Department
- Little Beavers
- Alpha Phi
- CodeIt mentor
- Engineers Without Borders


High School:
- A 2019 graduate of St. Charles East High School
- Valedictorian
- Varsity Soccer Captain and three-time letterwinner
- Academic All-Conference
- All-Conference
- All-Sectional Honorable Mention
- Team leader in goals and assists as a junior
- Three-time Regional Champions
- National Honor Society
- National Math Honor Society
- National Science Honor Society
- National Spanish Honor Society
- Weekly volunteer chef and Teen Executive Board member at Fox Valley Food for Health
- Vice President of National Honor Society
- Assembly Emcee
- Model UN
- Math Team
- 2019 U.S. Presidential Scholar Candidate
- National Merit Scholarship Winner
- Illinois State Scholar
- National AP Scholar
- National Hispanic Scholar
- Science Department Award recipient
- Fleur-de-Lis Award recipient
- Athletic Boosters scholarship
- Campton United scholarship
- Human Relations Award
- Rotary Youth Leadership Award


Club:
- Campton United
- State Champions
- Regional Champions
- National Championship Finalists
- National League Champions

Statistics

Season Statistics

Season Statistics

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Career Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 27

    2019First Year

    D
    5'9"
    27
  • 27

    2020Sophomore

    D
    5'9"
    27
  • 27

    2021Junior

    D
    5'9"
    27