Lilly McCarthy

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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

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

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

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

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

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