2024 Women's Soccer Roster
Jersey Number 15
Lilly McCarthy
- Position:
- Midfielder
- Height:
- 5-10
- Class:
- Fifth Year
- Hometown:
- Baltimore, Md.
- High School:
- McDonogh School
2024 (5th Year)
- United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-American
- All-Big 12 First Team
- United Soccer Coaches All-Midwest Region Team
- Fall Academic All-Big 12 First Team
- CSC Academic All-District Team
- Signed professional contract with Ft. Lauderdale United FC in the USL Super League
2023 (Sr.)
- CSC Academic All-District Team
- Fall Academic All-Big 12 First Team
- Played in 17 matches and earned one start
- Logged 397 minutes on the year, including a season-high 51 minutes at Houston on Oct. 1
- Finished the year with one point (1 A)
- Assisted Maddie Moreau’s goal against Saint Francis (Pa.) on Aug. 20, one of nine tallies scored by WVU in a record-setting performance
2022 (Jr.)
- CSC Academic All-District Team
- Fall Academic All-Big 12 First Team
- Played in all 23 matches, earning the starting nod in 22 of those contests
- Recorded 1,325 minutes on the season, one of just 10 players to eclipse the 1,000-minute mark
- Finished the year with four points (1 G, 2 A)
- Took 17 shots and placed eight of those on goal
- Career outing against St. Francis (Pa.) on Aug. 28, included an unassisted goal from a free kick, as well as an assist on Julianne Vallerand’s eventual game winner
- Tallied an assist on Dilary Heredia-Beltran’s goal that opened the scoring against Texas on Oct. 13
2021 (So.)
- CoSIDA Academic All-District 2 First Team
- Academic All-Big 12 First Team
- Appeared in 19 matches, earning the start in each one
- One of 11 players who tallied 1,000 or more minutes, recording 1,426 minutes of action
- Took 35 shots on the year and placed 15 on goal
- Finished the campaign with nine points (3 G, 3 A)
- Earned an assist on Julianne Vallerand’s game-winning goal in the Mountaineers’ season-opening, 4-0 victory over Buffalo on Aug. 19
- Assisted AJ Rodriguez’s first-half goal at Bucknell on Aug. 27
- Notched an unassisted, game-winning goal at James Madison to lift WVU to a 2-1 win on Sept. 16
- Tallied an insurance goal against Oklahoma on Oct. 1, to lift WVU to a 2-0 win
- Found the back of the net for the second straight match, scoring the Mountaineers’ lone goal in a 1-1 draw at Kansas State on Oct. 7
- Recorded her third assist of the campaign on Lauren Segalla’s early goal at Kansas on Oct. 10
2020-21 (Fr.)
- Big 12 Freshman of the Week (April 6)
- All-Big 12 Freshman Team
- Academic All-Big 12 Rookie Team
- Saw action in 12 games and earned six starts for 666 minutes of game action
- Finished the year with a pair of assists for two total points
- Also notched 13 shots, including a career-high five at Saint Joseph’s on March 7
- Five of her 13 shots in 2020-21 were placed on goal
- Made her first career start in WVU’s season opener at Iowa State on Sept. 11
- First career assist came on Alina Stahl’s first of two goals at Saint Joe’s
- Assisted Isabella Sibley’s game-winning goal against No. 10 Virginia on April 3
High School
- Rated as a four-star prospect by TopDrawerSoccer.com
- Played for coach Harry Canellakis at McDonogh School and Maryland United FC
- Led McDonogh to three straight Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland (IAAM) conference championships (2017-19) and helped the Eagles to a No. 3 national ranking in 2018 and 2019
- 2019 Bimbo High School All-American
- 2019 TopDrawerSoccer High School All-American
- 2019 United Soccer Coaches High School All-American
- 2019 USA Today Preseason High School All-American
- Two-time Allstate All-American Team selection (2018 and 2019)
- United Soccer Coaches All-East Region Team (2018 and 2019)
- ECNL Northeast All-Conference 2019
- Three-time Maryland All-State First Team honors in 2018 and 2019, and landed on the second team in 2017
- Two-time Baltimore Sun All Metro First Team (2018 and 2019)
- Three-time member of the IAAM All-Conference team (2017-19)
- TopDrawerSoccer Maryland All-State First Team (2017-19)
- TopDrawerSoccer All-America Second Team (2018)
- Fox News Prep Player of the Week (Oct. 21, 2018)
- Baltimore Sun All-Metro Second Team selection in 2017
Personal
- Daughter of Mark and Erin McCarthy
- Father was a member of the U.S. Bobsledding Elite Athlete Program and participated in the 1988 Olympic Trials
- Has two brothers and one sister
- Birthday is March 25
- Majoring in marketing
- Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll
- Garrett Ford Academic Honor Roll
Nikki Izzo-Brown | Iowa State Postgame | Oct. 23
Thursday, October 23
Nikki Izzo-Brown | Oct. 13
Monday, October 13
Nikki Izzo-Brown | Oct. 6
Monday, October 06
Nikki Izzo-Brown | Arizona State Postgame | Oct. 5
Sunday, October 05
