2020-21 Women's Soccer Roster
Roster
Mia Fishel
- Position:
- Forward
- Height:
- 5-7
- Class:
- Sophomore
- High School:
- Patrick Henry
- Hometown:
- San Diego, Calif.
Earned her second consecutive United Soccer Coaches All-America honor, being selected to the third team … Selected a second-team All-American by College Soccer News and third-team by Top Drawer Soccer … First-team All-Pacific Region and All-Pac-12 for the second-straight year … UCLA’s leading scorer with 12 goals and 29 points and ranked third in the Pac-12 in goals scored … Third on the team with five assists … Moved into UCLA’s all-time Top 10 for career goals with 32 … Ranks fifth all-time at UCLA with 16 career game-winning goals … Led the Pac-12 with six game-winning goals, including the golden goal in second overtime against Cal that kept UCLA’s Pac-12 title hopes alive … Scored two goals in her first hometown game at San Diego … Scored two goals and assisted on the other in a 3-1 win at Washington … Assisted on the late game-winner against Stanford … Recorded an assist on the game-winner against USC that gave UCLA the Pac-12 title … Earned Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week honors three times (Sept. 20, Oct. 4 and Oct. 25) … Named College Soccer News’ Player of the Week Sept. 20 after scoring four goals in three games that week … Earned UCLA Student-Athlete of the Week honors after scoring a pair of goals on opening weekend … Named to the Hermann Trophy Watch List.
2020
Second-team All-American and first-team All-Pacific Region by the United Soccer Coaches … First-team All-Pac-12 selection … Tied for the team lead with six assists … Ranked second on the UCLA squad in goals scored (six) and points (18) … Tied for the Pac-12 lead with four game-winning goals … Her 15 points in conference games ranked second in the Pac-12 … Named the Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week, as well as the National Player of the Week by both Top Drawer Soccer and College Soccer News, on Mar. 8 after having a hand in four of five UCLA goals in wins over Oregon and Oregon State … Twice selected to the Top Drawer Soccer Team of the Week (Feb. 15, Mar. 8) … Named UCLA’s Bruin of the Match after the BYU win.
2019
UCLA’s leading scorer with 14 goals, six game-winning goals and 31 points … Led all Bruins in scoring in the postseason as well, posting five goals and 11 points … Ranked third among all freshmen in the nation in goals scored … Selected to Top Drawer Soccer's Freshman Best XI … Earned third-team All-Pac-12 and Pac-12 All-Freshman honors … Had four multiple goal games, scoring twice against Hawaii, Utah, Clemson and Florida State … Twice named to the Top Drawer Soccer Team of the Week.
U.S. National Team
Earned her first call-up with the USWNT for an Oct. 2020 national team camp … Finalist for the 2020 U.S. Soccer Young Female Player of the Year award … Won the Golden Ball at the 2020 CONCACAF U-20 Championships after scoring a new all-ages record for the USWNT in a qualifying tournament with 13 goals in the tournament … Scored two goals in the championship game, including the game-winner … Scored the opening goal for the U.S. at the 2018 U-17 World Cup … Scored the go-ahead goal against Haiti at the 2018 CONCACAF U-17 semifinals to send the U.S. to the U-17 World Cup … Helped the U.S. win the 2016 CONCACAF U-15 Championship, winning the Golden Ball … Recorded a hat trick and added three assists in the 2016 CONCACAF U-15 quarterfinals.
High School/Club
Played club soccer with San Diego Surf … Named to the U.S. Soccer Development Academy’s Best XI for the West Conference in 2019 … Played two years of high school soccer and basketball at Patrick Henry HS … First-team All-CIF in soccer as a sophomore … Averaged 8.6 points, 8.0 rebounds and 7.6 steals in basketball as a senior and was named to the San Diego Union-Tribune All-Academic Team.
Personal
Full name is Mia Renee Fishel … Born in San Diego, Calif. … Parents are Contay Watson and Patrick Fishel … Has an older brother, Alante, and younger sister, Sage … Lists her greatest athletic thrill as scoring the opening goal for the U.S. at the 2018 U-17 World Cup … Admires Lionel Messi … Relatives David and Andrew Bascome played on Bermuda’s national team … Hobbies include fishing, listening to a variety of music and reading interesting books … Psychology major.
