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Savannah Levin
Personal information
Full name Savannah Lee Levin
Date of birth (1995-05-21) May 21, 1995 (age 29).[1]
Place of birth Newport Coast, California, U.S.[1]
Height 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)[1]
Position(s) Defender
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2016 USC Trojans 86 (4)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2017 Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC 11 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of July 3, 2017

Savannah Levin (born May 21, 1995) is an American soccer player who played as a defender for Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC in the Swedish Damallsvenskan. At the University of Southern California (USC) from 2013-2016, she played for the USC Trojans women's soccer team that won the 2016 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament.

Early life

Levin's parents are Desmond and Diane Levin.[2] She has a brother, Jay, and an older sister, Camille Levin, who played soccer played for the Stanford Cardinal women's soccer team that won the 2011 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament, in 2013 was the captain of the United States U-23 women's national soccer team, played for the Orlando Pride of the NWSL, and plays soccer for Vålerenga in the Toppserien in Norway.[3][4] She grew up in Newport Coast, California.[4]

Soccer career

In 2012, Levin played for Cal South's team that won the Olympic Development Program national championships in Frisco, Texas.[5]

In high school Levin was named league MVP in soccer all four years at Tarbut V' Torah (class of 2013) in Irvine, California, where she was a four-time first team all-league selection.[3][6]

Levin played on the USA Women's Soccer Team at the 2013 Maccabiah Games in Israel.[7][8]

Levin played at the University of Southern California (USC) from 2013-2016, where she was part of the USC Trojans women's soccer team that won the 2016 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament.[9][10] As a sophomore in 2014 and as a junior in 2015 she earned Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.[3] In 2016 she was named All Pac-12 First Team.[11] At USC she majored in psychology.[3]

Levin declared for the 2017 NWSL College Draft but was not selected,[12] in February 2017 she signed with Swedish team Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC to play in the Damallsvenskan, for whom she played as a midfielder in 2017.[13][14][15][16]

In 2018 she was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c "13 SAVANNAH LEVIN". USC Trojans. Pac-12. Retrieved July 3, 2017.
  2. ^ "TVT Alums Shine as Athletes in College and Beyond". Tarbut V'Torah Community Day School. December 15, 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d "Savannah Levin - Women's Soccer". USC Athletics.
  4. ^ a b c "SAVANNAH LEVIN; Soccer - 2018". Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
  5. ^ Scott French (March 13, 2012). "YOUTH: Cal South girls win ODP titles". ESPN.
  6. ^ "Savannah Levin's High School Timeline". MaxPreps.com.
  7. ^ "Richman Named to U.S. Maccabiah Games Team". Temple University Athletics. April 4, 2013.
  8. ^ "News; SAVANNAH LEVIN – 2013 Maccabiah," Spring 2017.
  9. ^ "NATIONAL CHAMPS NO. 7 TROJANS DEFEAT NO. 1 WEST VIRGINIA 3-1 TO EARN PROGRAM'S SECOND TITLE". December 4, 2016. Retrieved July 9, 2018.
  10. ^ "USC women's soccer beats West Virginia to win College Cup". Los Angeles Daily News. December 4, 2016.
  11. ^ "2016 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WOMEN’S SOCCER; All Pac-12 Honors," University of Southern California 2016 Women’s Soccer.
  12. ^ "2017 NWSL COLLEGE DRAFT LIST OF ELIGIBLE PLAYERS". Our Game Magazine. January 10, 2017. Retrieved July 9, 2018.
  13. ^ "Välkommen till KGFC, Savannah Levin!". Kopparbergs Göteborg FC (in Swedish). Retrieved July 3, 2017.
  14. ^ "Savannah Levin - Soccer player profile & career statistics". globalsportsarchive.com.
  15. ^ "USA - S. Levin - Profile with news, career statistics and history". Soccerway.
  16. ^ Graham Hays (August 28, 2018). "For Christen Press, it's matter over mind". ESPN.
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