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Carrera Lucas
Goalkeeper
Position
5'10''
Height
Freshman
Class
Brooklandville, Md.
Hometown
St. Paul's School for Girls
High School
AT VIRGINIA
2018
- ACC All-Academic Team
- All-ACC Tournament Team
- VaSID All-State First Team
- 2018 ZAG Field Hockey / NFHCA National Academic Squad, her fifth time earning the honor
- Selected to play in the Victory Sports Tours/NFHCA Senior Game
- Two-time ACC Defensive Player of the Week (Oct. 23 and Oct. 30
- NFHCA National Co-Defensive Player of the Week (Oct. 24) after making 10 saves on the week in victories over No. 14 Wake Forest and No. 2 Maryland
- ACC leader in save percentage (.787), ranking fourth in the NCAA
- ACC leader in saves per game (5.63), ranking 21st in the nation
- Finished the year with three shutouts, making a career-high 107 saves while posting a career-best 1.52 goals-against average
- Finished her career with 77 appearances, a 44-22 overall record with 11 shutouts, 339 saves to 120 goals allowed, a 1.81 goals-against average and a .739 save percentage
- Her 339 career saves ranks No. 7 in program history
INTERNATIONAL (2017-19)
- Competed with the 2017-18 USWNT National Development Squad in a four-game test series against Chile’s Women’s National Team and U19 Junior National Team from May 15-24 in Santiago, Chile
- Named to the roster for the 2018-19 National Development Squad
2017
- Longstreth/NFHCA All-South Region Second Team
- All-ACC Academic Team
- VaSID All-State First Team
- 2017 ZAG Field Hockey / NFHCA National Academic Squad
- Had two shutouts in the first three games, keeping Fairfield (Aug. 25) and Columbia (Sept. 1) scoreless
- Made eight saves in the win over No. 1 Duke (Sept. 8)
- Named the ACC Defensive Player of the Week (Sept. 11) after picking up wins over Duke and Michigan State
- Had her third shutout of the season against No. 8 Boston College (Sept. 22), making five saves
- Over the summer, named to the USWNT National Development Squad after attending the Young Women’s National Championship and earning an invitation to Development Squad National Camp
2016
- All-ACC Academic Team
- 2016 Longstreth/NFHCA All-South Region Second Team
- 2016 ZAG Field Hockey/NFHCA National Academic Squad
- Started the final 20 games of the season, posting a 14-6 record
- Second in the ACC in saves per games (5.20)
- Named the ACC Co-Defensive Player of the Week (Oct. 18) after the shutout victory over Syracuse
- Had her first career shutout in the win over Princeton (Sept. 16) and has added three more since then (Fairfield, Old Dominion, Syracuse)
- Had a career-high 14 saves against Princeton (Sept. 16)
2015
- Appeared in 17 games with six starts, amassing a 6-1 record
- Made her collegiate debut, playing the second half against Drexel (Aug. 28)
- Made her first career save in her first career start at Rutgers (Sept. 4), also earning her first win
- Played a scoreless half at Miami (Sept. 13), logging three saves
- Tallied a season-high eight saves playing the second half and overtime against Old Dominion (Oct. 11)
- Did not allow a goal in 54:34 of the NCAA first-round game against Delaware, matching her season high with eight saves (Nov. 14)
- Eighth in the ACC with 52 saves, ranking sixth in saves per game (3.06)
- 2015 ZAG Field Hockey / NFHCA National Academic Squad
2014
- Redshirted for field hockey in the fall, but was a member of the 2015 Cavalier lacrosse team in the spring
- SGI / NFHCA National Academic Squad
- ACC Academic Honor Roll
High School
- SGI / NFHCA National Academic Squad
- At St. Paul’s School for Girls, averaged 14.8 saves per game (266 total saves), saving 82 percent of the shots she faced in her fourth varsity season.
- 2014 SPSG Athlete of the Year
- Three-time Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference All-Star
- 2011 team MVP, 2013 Field Hockey Most Valuable Player Award
- Baltimore Ravens Athlete of the Week on Dec. 23, 2012
- Was also a lacrosse goalie, being named a 2013 and 2014 Towson Times Second-Team All-Star and serving as the 2014 team’s captain
- Also earned three varsity letters in squash and served as team captain in 2014
- Recipient of the 2014 C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Athletic Service Award
Personal
- Daughter of Carol and Dale Lucas
- Has two older brothers, Tyler and Garrett
- Her father, Dale, was a member of the US Bobsled Team from 1976-81
- Her father runs a competitive BBQ team with the family often traveling around the country with him to competitions
- Has lived her whole life on a horse farm that specializes in breeding and training thoroughbreds