2020-21 Women's Soccer Roster
Roster
Lauren Brzykcy
- Position:
- Goalkeeper
- Height:
- 5-10
- Class:
- Redshirt Junior
- High School:
- San Clemente
- Hometown:
- San Clemente, Calif.
2022
Starting goalkeeper for the NCAA Champion Bruins … Earned first-team All-Pacific Region honors … Second-team All-Pac-12 for the second consecutive year … Selected to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team … Named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll for the fourth time … Started all 25 games and played in 17 full games … Tied the school record for single-season victories with 22 … Allowed just 13 goals in 2,108 minutes of play … Ranked 10th nationally with a 0.56 goals against average … Led the Pac-12 with nine solo shutouts and also had five shared shutouts … Recorded 73 saves on the year, including a career-high-tying nine saves in the 2-1 win at No. 2 Duke on Sept. 1 … Recorded eight saves at USC … Shut out Alabama in the NCAA semifinal and made seven saves … Made six saves in the overtime win against UCF in the NCAA second round and did not allow a goal in the penalty kick shootout, saving the first penalty to set the tone for a 3-0 shootout win … Three-time Pac-12 Goalkeeper of the Week to tie former teammate Teagan Micah’s conference record for most career Goalkeeper of the Week awards … Twice named to the Top Drawer Soccer Team of the Week … Selected to the Hermann Trophy Watch List … Moved into UCLA’s Top 5 for goals against average (0.65), career saves (234), career shutouts (29) and wins (59).
2021
Earned second-team All-Pacific Region and All-Pac-12 honors … Selected United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-West Region for the second-straight year … Named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll for the third consecutive year … Started all 20 games and played in 18 full games … Only allowed 11 goals in 1805 minutes of play … Led the Pac-12 and ranked in the Top 10 nationally with a 0.55 goals against average … Tied for the Pac-12 lead with nine solo shutouts and also had one shared shutout … Recorded 67 saves, including a career-high-tying nine saves in the 1-0 win against Santa Clara on Sept. 9 … Recorded eight saves in the win at Washington … Totaled five games with six or more saves … Did not allow a goal in her first nine games played and had an 849-minute shutout streak from May 5-Sept. 30 … Three-time Pac-12 Goalkeeper of the Week … Selected to the Hermann Trophy Watch List … Moved into sixth on UCLA’s career lists for saves (161), shutouts (20) and wins (37).
2020
Third-team United Soccer Coaches All-American and first-team All-Region … Pac-12 Goalkeeper of the Year … First-team all-conference selection … First-team Scholar All-American and Scholar All-Region … Selected to the CoSIDA Academic All-District first team … Named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll for the second-straight year … Played in every minute of every game … One of four Bruins to start in all 17 games … Led the Pac-12 in wins with 13 and ranked second in shutouts (seven), goals against average (0.73), saves (69) and save percentage (.841) … Had six games in which she totaled five or more saves, including a nine-save effort against USC on Mar. 18 and an eight-save game on Apr. 16, also against the Trojans … Her 69 saves rank eighth on UCLA’s single-season chart, and her 95 career saves rank ninth on the career charts … Ranks ninth on UCLA’s career list with 21 wins … Earned Pac-12 Goalkeeper of the Week honors the first two weeks of the season.
2019
Played in six games and started four, earning two solo shutouts against Colorado and Washington … Played the second half in a 4-0 shutout win at Hawaii … Made a season-high four saves at Arizona … Posted a 1.01 goals against average with 13 saves and a 3-1-0 record … Selected to the Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll.
2018
Selected to the Pac-12 All-Freshman team … Started in eight games and posted two solo and two shared shutouts … Recorded a goals against average of 0.77 and made 13 saves … Made her collegiate debut Sept. 7, starting against Pepperdine and earning a shared shutout … Recorded her first solo shutout Sept. 13 in a 3-0 win at LMU … Made a season-high seven saves while facing 24 shots at Stanford.
2017
Redshirted the season.
U.S. National Team
Played with the U.S. Under-17 National team.
High School/Club
Earned NSCAA High School All-American and All-Region honors in 2016 and 2017 … TeamSnap All-Region selection in 2017 … Finalist for the Gatorade Player of the year in 2016 … Earned all-state honors in 2016… Named to Best Xl At the 2015 ECNL National Championships … Played in ECLN National Championships three times, winning one championship.
Personal
Full name is Lauren Ann Brzykcy … Born in Laguna Beach, Calif. … Parents are Bill and Andrea Brzykcy … Has one brother, Christopher… Her grandfather led the University of Wisconsin to its first Big Ten Golf Championship in 1957… Chose UCLA because it has great history, a beautiful campus, a successful soccer program, is close to home, and offers sign language through their linguistics program … Her greatest athletic thrill was winning a national championship… Admires Manuel Neuer … Hobbies include sign language, surfing and playing the ukulele … Earned her undergraduate degree in sociology and her Masters in transformative coaching and leadership from the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies.
