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State to the League
GABBY ENGLISH
ORLANDO PRIDE
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• Currently playing professionally with Hibernian FC of the Scottish Premiership in Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Signed with Orlando Pride on April 6, 2021, and participated in the club's preseason training camp ahead of the 2021 NWSL Challenge Cup.
• Spent a season with Portugal's Boavista FC before returning to the States.
• Came to Mississippi State as a grad transfer for the 2019 season after spending four years at San Diego State.
• Finished the regular-season in 2019 ranked fourth in the SEC with 62 saves and was third in league play with 41.
• Collected 22 career shutouts in her tenure at SDSU and MSU.
• Posted a career goals against average of 1.36 across her four years.
• Closed her career ranked seventh among active players in the NCAA with 7,260 career saves.
• Posted two of San Diego State's top 10 single-season shutout totals with eight in 2016 and 7.5 in 2017.
• Left SDSU ranking second on the Aztecs' all-time saves leaderboard with 244 career stops and ranking fourth in shutouts (19.5).
• Made a career-high 10 saves on Oct. 7, 2016 at UNLV.
• Made an MSU-career-high seven saves while allowing one goal in an overtime loss against Georgia and stopped seven more shots in the SEC Tournament against Ole Miss.
• Was a three-time Mountain West All-Academic Team selection and four-time SDSU Scholar Athlete.
MALLORY EUBANKS
• Drafted in the second round (16th overall) by the National Women’s Soccer League’s Washington Spirit, MSU’s highest-drafted player.
• Appeared in 12 games as a rookie for the Spirit, earning five starts and totaling 516 minutes of playing time.
• Earned the starting nod in all three matches with the United States U-23 National Team in the 2017 Portland Thorns Spring Invitational against the NWSL’s Houston Dash, Portland Thorns FC and Chicago Red Stars.
• Earned Second Team All-SEC honors in her final two seasons, the first for a Bulldog since Elisabeth Sullivan in 2012 and 2013.
• Became MSU’s first-ever SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year as a senior in 2017.
• Four-time SEC Academic Honor Roll selection in kinesiology.
• Led State in assists all four years of her career.
• Finished her Bulldog career ranking second all-time in assists (17) and game-winning assists (7), while also sitting fourth in shots attempted (134).
• Two-time SEC Preseason Watch List (2016, 2017).
• Named one of MSU’s two Boyd McWhorter SEC Postgraduate Scholarship nominees as a senior.
• Named team captain as a sophomore, junior and senior.
• Led the Bulldogs in goals (3), assists (3), points (9), shots (37) and shots on goal (23) as a junior in 2016.
• Saw pitch time with the U-19 U.S. Women’s National Team in summer 2016 vs. the New Zealand U-20 National Team in Auckland, New Zealand.
• Named Offensive MVP by her teammates as a sophomore. • Accounted for a team-best 12 points, including four goals, as a sophomore.
• Participated in the United States U-19 National Team Camp in spring 2015.
• Led the Bulldogs in minutes played (1,563) in her first season.
• Played and started in all 18 games as a freshman, earning SEC All-Freshman honors (MSU’s first since 2005).
ELISABETH SULLIVAN
2014 NWLS DRAFT | FOURTH ROUND | PORTLAND THORNS
• Drafted in the fourth round by the National Women’s Soccer League’s Portland Thorns, MSU’s first drafted player.
• Made her NWSL debut on May 10, 2014, as a substitute against the Seattle Reign.
• Earned Second Team All-SEC honors her last two seasons, the first for a Bulldog since Meredith Riekert in 1995 and 1997.
• Four-time SEC Academic Honor Roll selection in elementary education.
• Led State in goals all four years of her career.
• Set Mississippi State’s records for career goals and points with 39 and 92, respectively.
• Claimed the Bulldogs’ single-season goals record with 16 her senior season, breaking the mark with 1:30 remaining in her final collegiate match against rival Ole Miss.
• Tallied 34 points in 2013, third in school history, after claiming a fourth-most 28 as a junior.
• Tallied all but seven of MSU’s goals in 2013.
• Tied for third in the SEC in goals and seventh in points her senior season.
• Claimed new MSU top marks with eight multiple-goal games and eight game-winning assists.
• Tallied eight of her 16 goals in SEC play her senior season.
• Opened her senior campaign with goals in the first four matches and scored in a school-record six consecutive matches dating back to 2012.
• Tallied State’s first hat trick since 2001 and added an assist for seven points, second-most in MSU single-game history, against Jackson State on Sept. 15, 2013. • Capped 2012 by claiming the MSU career scoring record with the golden goal against rival Ole Miss.
• Named SEC Player of the Week after her two-goal effort against the Rebels.
• Netted 12 goals as a junior, a mark that was second in school history.
• Accounted for 13 points, including five goals, as a sophomore.
• Netted the winner against No. 11 Florida 37 seconds in, the second-fastest goal in school history.
• Paced State with 17 points as a freshman, scoring six goals and assisting five more.
