West Virginia University Athletics

• Member of the Nigerian Women’s National Team

2020-21 (So.)

• All-Big 12 Second Team
• Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• Competed in 12 matches, earning nine starts for 925 total minutes of game action
• Tallied five shots on the year, including three on goal
• Finished the year with two points (1 G, 0 A)
• Credited with the game-winning goal in the Mountaineers’ 4-1 victory over Kansas State on Sept. 25
• Helped the WVU defense tally a pair of clean sheets
• Played 90 or more minutes nine times, including all nine Big 12 matches

2019 (Fr.)

• All-Big 12 Freshman Team
• Academic All-Big 12 Rookie Team
• Appeared in 21 matches, earning 15 starts in 1,510 minutes of action
• Scored three goals and added two assists for eight total points
• Finished with 10 shots, five on goal
• Scored first career goal at Virginia on Sept. 1
• Recorded a brace against Stony Brook on Sept. 12, including the game-winner
• Tallied her first career assist at Texas on Oct. 6
• Also had an assist at Kansas State on Oct. 27
• Played 90 or more minutes 12 times, all in the final 14 games of the season
• Helped the Mountaineers to nine shutouts on the season

High School

• Member of the United States U-19 National Team and traveled to Netherlands in November 2018 for a pair of matches
• Previously played for the U.S. U-18, U-17, U-15 and U-14 National Teams
• Named to the 2018 U.S. Soccer Development Academy U-18/19 Eastern Conference Best XI
• Multi-year player for Concorde Fire and finished as the 2017 Elite Clubs National League (ECNL) National Runner-Up
• Also ran cross country and track for Oak Mountain High, where she graduated owning two state records, as well as six state championships and nine total state medals
• 2018-19 Gatorade Alabama Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year
• Ten-time All-State performer
• Swept the 100-, 200- and 400-meter dash events at the 2019 Class 7A State Outdoor Track & Field Championship, setting records in the 200 (23.74) and the 400 (53.55)
• Finished first in the girls’ 400-meter dash and third in the girls’ 200-meter dash at the 2017 Class 7A State Outdoor Track and Field Championship
• 2017 7A 400-meter state champion
• TopDrawerSoccer.com four-star rating and No. 4-ranked midfielder regionally
• Girls IMG Academy Top 150 (No. 27 overall, No. 11 midfielder)

Personal

• Daughter of Oyeleke and Mojemilat Payne
• Has one sister and one brother
• Sister, Toni, played soccer at Duke, and brother, Stephen, played for UCLA
• Birthday is Jan. 18
• Majoring in psychology
• Dean’s List
• Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll
• Garrett Ford Academic Honor Roll