CAREER: 34 starts in 59 matches played … 18 goals and seven assists … two game winning goals ... Total of 92 shots with 44 on goal
PEPPERDINE 2024: Played in all 21 matches for the Waves with 17 starts ... Four goals and four assists across the season ... 36 shots with 16 on goal for a .444 percentage ... All-WCC Second Team
PEPPERDINE 2023: Named to the Preseason All-WCC team … A United Soccer Coaches 2023 Women’s Forwards Watchlist member … All-WCC second team … WCC offensive player of the week 8/21/23 … WCC offensive player of the week 10/30/23 … Started nine matches in 20 appearances … scored six goals with two assists … a total of 28 shots with 14 being on goal … WCC Commissioner’s Honor Roll “bronze” honors.
PEPPERDINE 2022: An outstanding debut led to
United Soccer Coaches All-West Region second team honors,
All-WCC second team honors and was named to the
WCC All-Freshman team … Second-leading scorer with eight goals and had one assist for 17 points … Played in all 18 matches and started eight … Took 28 shots … In the WCC, ranked fourth in goals per game (0.44), tied for fourth in goals (eight), tied for sixth in points (17) and tied for seventh in points per game (0.94) … Had two goals vs. #19 BYU (10/19) … Scored a goal in her Pepperdine debut vs. CSUN (8/18) … Scored the game-tying goal vs. LSU (8/25) … Also scored goals vs. San Diego State (8/28), vs. San Diego (10/1) and vs. San Francisco (10/15) … Had an assist at UC Santa Barbara (9/1) …
WCC Commissioner’s Honor Roll “bronze” honors …
A Pepperdine Scholar-Athlete.
CLUB: Played for LAFC SoCal Youth for 13 years … Captained SoCal Youth for 10 years … Was named to the 2021 ECNL Girls National Selection team … Earned ECNL Southwest U17 All-Conference first team … Was the sixth-leading scorer in the nation in 2020 with 14 goals in 17 games … Played for ODP 2004 in 2016 … Competed at the National Training Center from 2016-19.
HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from Westlake High School, located in Thousand Oaks, Calif., in 2022 … Played two years of varsity soccer … Earned Ventura County Star and L.A. Daily News Player of the Year in 2022 … Named Marmonte League MVP in 2022 and Marmonte League Offensive MVP in 2021 … Collected All-CIF Southern Section first team in 2021 and All-Area first team in 2021 … Two-time All-Marmonte League first team … Scored 48 goals and had 20 assists in two years … Had the fastest goal scored in school history, scoring 16 seconds into a game her senior year … Holds the school record for most consecutive hat tricks with three … Tied for the most assists in one game with five … Helped Westlake to a 2022 Marmonte League championship … A scholar-athlete.
PERSONAL: Born in Thousand Oaks, Calif. … Daughter of Amy Ward and Eric Wynalda … Sister to Brooke, Tim, Braeden, Blake and Elliotte … Uncle is Pepperdine head coach Tim Ward … Aunt Shelby Ward graduated from Pepperdine in 1997 and was a soccer student-athlete… Currently has a cousin, Nate Ward, that attends Pepperdine … Stepmom, Amanda Wynalda, is also a Pepperdine alum … Mom, Amy Ward, and dad, Eric Wynalda, both played soccer at San Diego State … Dad is an American soccer legend who played in the 1990, 1994 and 1998 World Cups, scored the first goal in MLS history, was the first U.S. player in Germany, and was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 2004 … Mother transferred to Cal Lutheran to play soccer and made an NCAA final four appearance… Mother was also named an Academic All-American … Chose Pepperdine because “it is the perfect combination of academic and athletic excellence. It encapsulates everything I wanted in a school; an emphasis on faith, a beautiful location, intimate learning, strong community, etc. In terms of soccer, the coaching staff’s dedication to building women of character and creating a positive yet competitive team culture.”
FAVORITES: Favorites include Abby Wambach (pro athlete), Liverpool (pro team), Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (book), Spider-Man: No Way Home (movie), Stranger Things (TV show), The Weeknd (musical artist), ice cream (food) and volleyball (sport besides soccer).
