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2021 MIT Women's Soccer Roster

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17 Maya Nielan

  • Position D
  • Height 5-11
  • Class Senior
  • High School Monte Vista
  • Hometown Danville, Calif.
  • Major Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science

Biography

Career Highs
Goals 1 Six Times - Most Recently vs. Worcester State (October 1, 2019)
Assists 1 Five Times - Most Recently at Roger Williams (September 10, 2019)
Points 2 Six Times - Most Recently vs. Worcester State (October 1, 2019)
Shots 4 Three Times - Most Recently vs. Salem State (September 17, 2019)

Accolades:
- CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year (2021)
- CoSIDA First Team Academic All-America (2021, 2020, 2019)
- CoSIDA Academic All-District (2021, 2020, 2019)
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference (2021, 2020, 2019, 2018)
- United Soccer Coaches All-America Second Team (2019)
- D3Soccer.com All-America Second Team (2019)
- United Soccer Coaches All-Region First Team (2019)
- United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-America First Team (2019)
- United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-Region First Team (2019)
- NEWMAC Defensive Athlete of the Year (2019)
- NEWMAC All-Conference First Team (2019)
- NEWISA All-Region (2019)
- NEWMAC All-Conference Second Team (2021, 2018, 2017)
- NEWMAC Defensive Player of the Week (Sept. 5, 2017)


2021: [Season Stats]
- Team Captain
- Played in 16 games making 15 starts
- Finished the year with three goals and an assist for seven points
- Helped lead MIT to a program record 22 wins and the teams first Elite 8 appearance
- Led the MIT defense to allowing just 11 goals while registering 18 shutouts  


2020:
- Season Cancelled Due to Covid-19


2019: [SEASON STATS]
- Started in all 24 matches as a junior
- Posted one goal and one assist for three points
- 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


2018: [SEASON STATS]
- Led MIT to ten shutouts and a goals against average of 0.79, both of which led the NEWMAC
- Was part of a team that won its second straight NEWMAC Championship


2017: [SEASON STATS]
- As a key member of the defense aided MIT to nine shutouts, which was second-best in the league and a goals against average of 0.90, which ranked third in the NEWMAC
- Scored her first collegiate goal in a 3-2 against Brandeis on September 1
- Tallied her first collegiate assist in a 7-1 win against Salem State (9/19)
- Was part of a team that had its best season in program history (20-2-1), reached the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 for the first time since 2012, won the NEWMAC Championship for the first time since 2011 and registered its highest national ranking of No. 12 in the United Soccer Division III poll


Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Winning three straight NEWMAC regular season and tournament championships


Off the Field at MIT:
- Majoring in mechanical engineering and computer science
- Minoring in computer science
- Concentration in product design
- Summer intern at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories
- Intern at The Boeing Company
- MIT tour guide
- Alpha Phi


High School:
- A 2017 graduate of Monte Vista High School
- Four-year starter and won four varsity letters as a member of the soccer team
- Was named as a co-captain in 2016 and 2017
- Team MVP and First Team All East Bay in 2016
- Placed on the High School All-American Watch List in 2017
- Was a member of the U14 National Team Roster
- 2017 Girls National IMG Academy
- Top-100: Top Drawer Soccer
- Honor Roll
- California Scholarship Federation


Club:
- Mustang SC ECNL 98/99
- 2017 ECNL Top 16 Team
- 2017 ECNL Bay Area/Northwest Conference Champions

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 17

    2017First Year

    D
    5'9"
    17
  • 17

    2018Sophomore

    D
    5'9"
    17
  • 17

    2019Junior

    D
    5'11"
    17
  • 17

    2020Senior

    D
    5'11"
    17
  • 17

    2021Senior

    D
    5'11"
    17