Izzy Engle

Izzy Engle
Engle with Notre Dame in 2024
Personal information
Full name Isabela Engle[1]
Place of birth 2006 (age 17–18)[2]
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Position(s) Attacking midfielder, forward
Team information
Current team
 Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Number 3
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2024– Notre Dame Fighting Irish 19 (17)
International career‡
2024 United States U-19 1 (1)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of June 3, 2024

Isabela Engle (born 2006) is an American college soccer player who plays as a forward or attacking midfielder for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. She scored 19 goals in her freshman season and was named the TopDrawerSoccer National Freshman of the Year.

Early life and college career

Engle grew up in Edina, Minnesota, the daughter of Patricia and Ryan Engle, and has three brothers. She played high school soccer for Edina High School, which she helped reach the state semifinals in 2021, finish runner-up in 2022, and go undefeated 22–0 and claim the state championship in 2023. She totaled 41 goals with 11 assists that year, including a hat trick in a 4–2 win in the semifinals and a brace in a 2–1 win in the final. She was named a United Soccer Coaches All-American, Minnesota Star Tribune Metro Player of the Year, and Minnesota Gatorade Player of the Year.[3][4] She committed to the University of Notre Dame as a junior.[5] She also competed in high school track and field.[6] She played club soccer for Minnesota Thunder Academy, where she was a five-time ECNL first-team all-conference selection.[6]

Notre Dame Fighting Irish

Engle scored a hat trick against Samford in her second game for Notre Dame Fighting Irish, which made her the first Notre Dame freshman with a hat trick since Melissa Henderson in 2008.[7] She recorded six multi-goal games in the 2024 season, including a brace in a 3–3 draw against No. 1 Duke.[8] She scored three goals in four games of the NCAA tournament, helping lead Notre Dame to the quarterfinals.[6] She finished the season a national-second-best 19 goals in 22 games, the most goals by a freshman since 2014. She was named the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Freshman of the Year, first-team All-ACC, and TopDrawerSoccer National Freshman of the Year.[9][8]

International career

Engle was called into camp with the national under-17 team in 2023.[5] She was included as an alternate to the under-19 team at the 2023 Pan American Games, where they won bronze playing against other countries' senior teams.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Isabela Engle Juggling Around the Colleges". TopDrawerSoccer. Retrieved November 6, 2024.
  2. ^ "U.S. Under-17 Women's Youth National Team Calls Up 23 Players For Training Camp In North Carolina". United States Soccer Federation. May 19, 2023. Retrieved December 18, 2024.
  3. ^ La Vaque, David (October 30, 2023). "The Metro Player of the Year in girls soccer: Edina's Izzy Engle". Minnesota Star Tribune. Retrieved November 6, 2024.
  4. ^ "Gatorade 2023–2024: Player of the Year: Girls Soccer – Minnesota". Gatorade. Retrieved November 6, 2024.
  5. ^ a b Furtado, Noah (July 21, 2023). "Edina's Maddie Dahlien puts Minnesota soccer back on USWNT radar". Star Tribune. Retrieved August 4, 2024.
  6. ^ a b c "Izzy Engle". Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Retrieved November 6, 2024.
  7. ^ Clark, Geoffrey (August 18, 2024). "Notre Dame freshman Izzy Engle scores hat trick in victory vs. Samford". USA Today. Retrieved November 6, 2024.
  8. ^ a b "2024 All-ACC Women's Soccer Awards Announced". Atlantic Coast Conference. November 6, 2024. Retrieved November 6, 2024.
  9. ^ "2024 Women's DI Postseason Awards". TopDrawerSoccer. December 18, 2024. Retrieved December 18, 2024.
  10. ^ "U19 WNT Roster Named for Pan-American Games". United States Soccer Federation. October 9, 2023. Retrieved November 6, 2024 – via TopDrawerSoccer.