2020-21 Women's Soccer Roster
Roster
Jacey Pederson
- Position:
- Defender
- Height:
- 5-5
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- High School:
- Palo Alto
- Hometown:
- Palo Alto, Calif.
2020
One of four Bruins to start in all 17 games โฆ Earned Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week honors Mar. 8 โฆ Received Pac-12 academic honors for the fourth time in her career โฆ Contributed to seven shutouts โฆ Scored her first collegiate goal in the season opener at Pepperdine โฆ All three of her assists were on game-winners to Reilyn Turner, against San Diego, at Utah and against Iowa.
2019
Selected to the Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll โฆ Received UCLAโs Athletic Directorโs Academic Excellence Award for making the honor roll every quarter at UCLA โฆ Redshirted the season due to injury.
2018
Earned honorable mention Pac-12 All-Academic honors for the second-straight year โฆ Played in nine games total with four starts โฆ Started three of the seasonโs first four games before being sidelined with injury โฆ Returned for the final five games of the regular season but injured her knee just before the start of postseason.
2017
Played in 12 games and earned starts at Weber State and against Oregon State โฆ Assisted on the game-winning goal against San Diego State in the NCAA first round โฆ Played in a season-high 68 minutes vs. Oregon State โฆ Had two shots on goal against USC.
2016
Played in 17 games and earned six starts, including starts in the last four games โฆ Helped UCLA record three shutouts in its last four games โฆ Assisted on the game-tying goal with less than two minutes to play in regulation in the NCAA 3rd Round game at West Virginia โฆ Played the full 90 against Washington State and a career-high 92 minutes at West Virginia. ย
U.S. National Team
Member of the U.S. Youth National Team program from 2012-16 โฆ Most recently represented the U.S. U-19 team in New Zealand in June 2016.
High School/Club
High school All-American, all-region and all-state selection at Palo Alto High School โฆ NSCAA Youth All-American in 2015 โฆ Played four years of soccer as a defender and midfielder and two years of track & field, competing in the long jump, triple jump, 4x400m relay, and 200m โฆ SCVAL Defensive MVP for the 2012-13 season and league MVP as a junior and senior โฆ San Jose Mercury Player of the Year for the Central Coast Section as a junior โฆ Played club soccer for PSV Union FC, which won the Surf College Cup in 2014.
Personal
Full name is Jacey Pederson โฆ Born in Palo Alto, Calif. โฆ Greatest athletic thrill was representing the U.S. at national training camps โฆ Hobbies include cooking/baking, listening to music, hiking, and yoga โฆ Parents are Shelly and Stu Pederson โฆ Stu played 14 years of professional baseball for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays โฆ Has three brothers, Champ, Tyger, and Joc โฆ Joc was an All-Star center fielder and World Series Champion with the Los Angeles Dodgers and now plays for the Chicago Cubs, Tyger played within the Dodgers organization from 2013-14, and Champ was enshrined into the Little League Hall of Excellence in 2017 โฆ Admires Stephen Curry โฆ Majoring in sociology.
