2025 Women's Soccer Roster
Jersey Number 26
Sophia Nickel
- Position:
- Defender
- Height:
- 5-5
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Golden, Colo.
- High School:
- Golden High School
- Prev School:
- Kansas
Kansas (2024)
- Appeared in all 19 matches, logging 345 minutes on the season
- As a member of the back line, she helped Kansas notch eight shutouts
- Attempted nine shots throughout the year
- Played a season-high 42 minutes against Friends on Sept. 15
High School
- Graduated from Golden High School, playing four years on the varsity team for coaches Isaac Clark, Luke Meadows and Larry Harding
- 2024 4A Jeffco Offensive Player of the Year
- Named to the all-state first team in 2024
- Received first team all-conference recognition in 2021, 2022 and 2024
- Earned all-state honorable mention honors as a freshman in 202
- Made the all-conference second team in 2023
- Scored 33 goals and notched 20 assists, playing in 48 career games at Golden High
- Received CHSAA Academic All-State First Team honors each year from 2022-24
- At the club level, she played for the Colorado Rush for coach Russell Finch
- Helped the team win the GA Champions Cup in 2022
- Her team went on to be named the academy's team of the year that season
- She was honored as the Colorado Rush Defensive Player of the Year in 2023
- Earned "Girl of the Game" honors three times throughout her career
Personal
- Daughter of Mike and Thu Nickel
- Has one brother
- Her father, Mike, was a member of the track team at Bowling Green and Cincinnati
- Her great grandfather, Elbie Nickel, played football for the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1947-57
- Her grandfather, Elbert Joseph Nickel, played football at Cincinnati
- Birthday is April 17
- Majoring in exercise physiology
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