2024 Women's Soccer Roster
Jersey Number 4
AJ Rodriguez
- Position:
- Forward/Midfielder
- Height:
- 5-2
- Class:
- Fifth Year
- Hometown:
- Austin, Texas
- High School:
- Del Valle HS
2024 (5th Year)
- All-Big 12 Second Team
- Fall Academic All-Big 12 First Team
- WVU Student-Athlete of the Week (Sept. 23)
- Preseason All-Big 12 First Team
2023 (Sr.)
- Started all 19 matches for WVU on the year
- Tallied 1,314 minutes, ranking seventh on the team
- Played a season-best 82 minutes in the regular-season finale against Cincinnati on Oct. 23
- Finished the campaign with four points (1 G, 2 A)
- One of four players to notch one goal and one assist against Saint Francis (Pa.) on Aug. 20, scoring the first of WVU’s nine goals in a record-setting win over the Red Flash
- Also assisted Taylor White’s goal in the 59th minute against SFU
- Game-winning tally against SFU marked the first of her Mountaineer career
- Posted her second assist of the season on White’s game-winning strike against Oklahoma State on Oct. 8
2022 (Jr.)
- All-Big 12 Second Team
- Big 12 All-Tournament Team
- United Soccer Coaches All-Midwest Region Third Team
- Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week (Oct. 25)
- WVU Student-Athlete of the Week (Oct. 24)
- Started all 23 matches on the season
- Tallied 1,467 minutes to become one of just 10 players to exceed 1,000 minutes
- Scored five goals to finish the year with 10 points
- Took 29 shots and placed 10 of those on frame, with five of those shots on goal going into the back of the net
- Scored her first goal of the season in a 5-1 win over Saint Joseph’s on Aug. 21
- Helped WVU earn a 2-2 draw against Kansas on Sept. 30, scoring a goal minutes after falling behind following a pair of KU goals
- Equalized the match against Baylor on Oct. 16, with a first-half goal before West Virginia went on to claim a 3-1 victory
- Sparked a come-from-behind, 3-2 win at Oklahoma on Oct. 23, securing her first career two-goal performance
2021 (So.)
- Saw action in all 20 matches, while she also earned four starts
- Logged 654 minutes of action and played a career-best 81 minutes at Texas on Oct. 21
- Tallied 12 shots on the year, placing four on goal
- Finished the year with five points (2 G, 1 A)
- Found the back of the net for the first time in her career to help lead WVU to a 3-1 win at Bucknell on Aug. 27
- Credited with the assist on Isabella Sibley’s first-half goal against Saint Francis (Pa.), on the way to a 5-0 Mountaineer victory on Sept. 12
- Put the exclamation point on a 4-0 West Virginia win over Iowa State on Sept. 24
- Earned her first career start against TCU on Oct.14
2020-21 (Fr.)
- Appeared in three contests, tallying 43 total minutes on the year
- Made her career debut in the Mountaineers’ season opener at Iowa State on Sept. 11
- Tallied her first career shot, placing it on goal, at Saint Joseph’s on March 7
- Played a season-high 28 minutes against the Hawks
High School
- Attended Del Valle High School
- Four-star recruit according to TopDrawerSoccer.com
- Girls IMG Academy Top 150 (No. 87 overall, No. 37 midfielder)
- TopDrawerSoccer.com No. 14-ranked midfielder regionally
- Played for the Lonestar Development Academy
- Selected to TopDrawerSoccer.com’s Girls Development Academy Standout team on Sept. 7, 2019, after scoring a pair of goals in a win over Sporting Omaha
- Also earned the award on Nov. 17, 2018, after tallying two goals in the Lonestar’s win over the Dallas Texans
Personal
- Daughter of Fred Rodriguez and Cecilia Ruiz
- Has five sisters and four brothers
- Birthday is Aug. 30
- Majoring in integrated studies
- Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll
- Garrett Ford Academic Honor Roll
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Nikki Izzo-Brown | Arizona State Postgame | Oct. 5
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