Makayla Gallen

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2021

• NFHCA All-South Region Second Team
• All-ACC Tournament Team
• Co-captain
• Started all 21 games
• Played in more career games (101) than any other player in program history, starting 93 of those
• Finished her career with 16 goals and 12 assists for 44 points
• Scored her first goal of the season (a game-winner) at Ohio State 9/19
• Scored the game-tying goal against Duke (10/01)
• Also scored a goal in the regular-season meeting against North Carolina (10/29)
• NFHCA National Academic Squad
• ACC Academic Honor Roll

2020-21

• Co-Captain
• Played forward in the fall, but moved to defensive back in the spring
• Started all 18 games for the Cavaliers
• Assisted on the double-overtime game-winning goal against Syracuse (10/4)
• ACC Academic Honor Roll

2019

• Named to the  U.S. Women’s National Indoor Team roster, playing at the Rohrmax Cup in Vienna, Austria (1/2/20)
• Finished the year with six goals and four assists for 16 points
• Scored the first goal of the season for the Cavaliers at Old Dominion (8/30), the first of her two game-winners
• Also had the game-winner against UMass Lowell (9/6)
• Named to the ACC All-Tournament Team
• Competed at USA Field Hockey’s Young Women’s National Championship in June, earning an invitation to U21 team selection camp in December
• ACC Academic Honor Roll

2018

• Finished the season with four goals and two assists, appearing in 19 games with 17 starts
• Had a goal and an assist in the season-opener at Drexel (Aug. 24)
• Also scored against Syracuse (Sept. 7) and at Liberty (Sept. 16)
• Tipped in a goal in the NCAA tournament game against Princeton (Nov. 9)
• Thirteen of her 17 shots were on goal for a .765 on-goal percentage
• Selected to compete in the 2018 USAFH Young Women’s National Championship in June 2018 and offered a trial for the U21 team at the conclusion of the 2018 collegiate season
• ACC Academic Honor Roll

2017

• Was in the starting lineup for her collegiate debut against Fairfield (Aug. 25)
• Scored her first collegiate goal in the win over Columbia (Sept. 1)

High School/Club Hockey

• Was a midfielder for the US U19 Junior National Team
• Was a forward on the US U17 Junior National Team
• Also was a member of the 2015 US Indoor National Team
• Four-time All-Delco and All-Catholic
• League MVP in 2015 at Cardinal O’Hara
• Played for the WC Eagles club team

Personal

• Daughter of Sharon and Michael Gallen
• Has two older brothers, Tyler and Troy, and a younger brother, Drew
• Graduated in May 2021 as a media studies major with an entrepreneurship minor, also pursuing a business fundamentals certification
• Pursuing a Masters of Education in Higher Education