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Career Stats

Awards & Honors

• 2021 Academic All-Big Ten

As a graduate student (2022):

• Earned her first collegiate assist during the 7-0 win over Temple at home (9/1)
• After missing most of the 2021 season with injuries, played all 90 minutes in a 1-0 shut out in the season opener at New Mexico on the back line.

As a graduate student (2021): Saw action in two games. 

As a graduate student (2020-21): Started five of nine games...earned starting nods in the wins over Iowa and Minnesota, playing the full 90 minutes...made her Scarlet Knight debut with a start in the 3-2 win over Penn State, clocking the full 90 minutes.  

Prior to Rutgers: Graduate transfer from Columbia University…broke into the collegiate scene with 16 game starts as a rookie in 2016, anchoring a backline that recorded seven consecutive shutouts, ranked 22nd overall in goals-against average (0.706 GAA), ranked 14th overall in shutout percentage (0.588%), and recorded 10 shutouts over the course of the season (tied for 1st in Ivy League).

Prior to collegiate career: recognized on the Dean’s List for three straight seasons with the Lions…defender for the Howell Rebels and PDA O'Reilly in New Jersey...won the PDP ECNL Northeast Championship with O'Reilly in May 2015...ECNL National Finalist in 2013 & 2014…attended the U18 Women’s National Team Training Camp at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California and the ECNL Nike National Training Camp in Beaverton, Oregon, in the fall of 2015...won multiple 'Best Defense' awards in ECNL… 2019 Scholar Baller Award…2016 Sun Devil Classic All-Tournament Team…four-year varsity letterwinner at Howell High School, earning the 2014 Rookie of the Year Award…member of the National Society of High School Scholars and Rebel Scholar Program High honor roll student…named a 2016 Howell HS Distinguished Scholar.

Personal: Daughter of Emma and John Kuryla…has two siblings, Jonathan and Gabriela…earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Sociology at Columbia.

Rutgers Single-Game Highs
Shots: 1, at Michigan -- 04/03/21; at Ohio St. -- 04/11/21