2018 – Redshirt Junior Season
Awards: Selected to Big Ten All-Tournament Team...Named to Academic All-Big Ten.
Season: Started in all 25 games...Helped anchor defense that recorded 14 shutouts and allowed just 13 goals all season.
Michigan (10/28): Assisted in lone goal of a 1-0 win in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament...vs Wake Forest (11/18): Assisted in only goal in a 1-0 win in the NCAA Sweet 16.
2017 – Redshirt Sophomore Season
Awards: Named to Academic All-Big Ten.
Season: Played in all 24 matches, which included 13 starts...Finished year with four shot attempts...Defense recorded 13 shutouts.
2016 – Sophomore Season
Redshirted...Started all six matches for the United States U-20 Women’s National Team at the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup.
2015 – Freshman Season
Awards: Named to the Big Ten All-Freshman Team...TopDrawerSoccer Freshman Best XI Second Team...National Champion.
Season: Played in 14 Nittany Lion shutouts and in 26 matches overall...Made 21 starts...Dished out six assists...Tallied assists in back-to-back matches in the NCAA Tournament (Ohio State - 11/22 & No...4 West Virginia - 11/28).
Hofstra (8/21): Credited with her first career point on an assist on the first goal of the year against .
U.S. NATIONAL TEAM EXPERIENCE
Participated in Thorns Spring Invite with U.S. U-23 WNT in March 2018...Joined U.S. U-23 WNT for a training camp in July 2017...Took part in the Nordic Cup with U.S. U-23 WNT (June 2017)...Made her first call-up with U.S. U-23 WNT for a training camp and three matches (March 2017)...Was one of five Nittany Lions on the U.S U-20 Women’s National Team at the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup...Took part in U.S. U-20 WNT training camps in October 2016, September 2016, July 2016, June 2016, April 2016 and July 2015...Joined the U.S. U-20 WNT for a training camp and pair of matches in Papua New Guinea (May 2016)...Traveled to La Manga, Spain, with the U.S. U-20 WNT for the 2016 La Manga Tournament (March 2016)...Competed with the U-14, U-15, U-17 and U-18 teams...Captained the U-17 team at the 2013 CONCACAF Women’s U-17 Championship.
BEFORE PENN STATE
Rated as the No. 1 player in the Eastern Regional, No. 2 defensive player nationally and No. 5 overall player in for the class of 2015 by TopDrawerSoccer.com...Competed for Oakwood Soccer Club for five years...Named an NSCAA All-American twice...Did not play soccer at Coventry, but competed in cross country...Named Team captain, Hartford Courant Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year and all-conference, all-state and All-New England honoree following a Class SS championship, finished as State Open runner-up and 18th-place time at the New England Cross Country Championships.
PERSONAL
Elisabeth Charlotte Jean was born on January 31, 1997, in Chattanooga, Tennessee...Parents are Rebecca Bacher and Domingo Jean, stepfather is Kevin Bacher...Domingo played for the New York Yankees and played in the Cincinnati Reds’, Colorado Rockies’ and Yankees’ minor league systems...Has an older half-brother, D.J...Advertising/public relations major.
WHY I CHOSE PENN STATE
“The atmosphere is amazing and as soon as I visited the campus it felt like home.”