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Makayla Gallen
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Position
5'5''
Height
Graduate Student
Class
Glen Mills, Pa.
Hometown
Cardinal O'Hara
High School
Makayla Gallen Pronunciation
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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