2025 • REDSHIRT SENIOR SEASON
Awards: Secured Academic All-Big Ten laurels in her final semester with the Blue & White.
Season: Appeared in a quartet of matches over the course of her senior season at Penn State, notching 64 minutes of action while keeping the scoreboard clear over all four matches… Registered six saves for a 1.000 save percentage on the year.
Saint Louis (8/21): Saw 20 minutes of action for the Nittany Lions, notching a season-high three saves while not allowing a goal against the Billikens… Maryland (9/11): Recorded her longest outing of the season playing 27 minutes against the Terrapins, turning away one shot, helping the Nittany Lions maintain a clean sheet in a 4-0 win… NCAA Tournament First Round vs. Army West Point (11/15): Closed off a 3-0 win for the Nittany Lions against the Black Knights with two saves in 12 minutes at Jeffrey Field, advancing the Nittany Lions to the second round of the tournament.
2024 • REDSHIRT JUNIOR SEASON
Awards: Named a selection to the Academic All-Big Ten team for the third year in a row… Picked up Big Ten Distinguished Scholar honors.
Season: Saw her first consistent time between the pipes as PSU’s starting goalkeeper, making 14 appearances with 12 starts in 1,126 minutes of playing time… Booked the best goals-against average on the Nittany Lion roster with a 0.64 mark in the statistic, surrendering just eight opponent scores against 36 saves… Led PSU with a 0.818 save percentage in goal… Finished the year with an 8-3-1 individual record highlighted by six shutouts, with both her win total and clean sheet total leading the Blue & White in 2024… Her six shutouts ranked ninth in the Big Ten and inside the top 100 nationally among DI shot-stoppers.
Virginia (8/20): Booked her first collegiate start and played all 90 minutes in the Nittany Lions’ second match of the year against the Cavaliers, booking a career high-tying four saves against two goals allowed… West Chester (8/25): Booked her first individual win between the pipes in addition to her first solo shutout in 90 minutes of work against the Golden Rams… at Saint Louis (8/29): Started and played all 90 minutes in PSU’s first ranked win on the road of the year, turning back three Billiken shots en route to a 2-1 win… at Princeton (9/5): Started a stretch of three-straight shutouts with a three-save clean sheet in a 1-0 victory… Michigan (9/12): Logged her first start against a B1G opponent and helped guide the PSU defense to a clean sheet and a 6-0 victory to open league play with a career-best quartet of saves… at Nebraska (9/29): Steered the Nittany Lions to another shutout and a 1-0 road win over defending B1G regular season co-champion Nebraska, notching a trio of saves.
2023 • REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE SEASON
Awards: Landed Academic All-Big Ten honors in the postseason after booking a perfect 4.0 GPA… Earned Big Ten Distinguished Scholar accolades.
Season: Made a trio of appearances for the Nittany Lions, playing 60 minutes overall this season... Participated in a pair of combined shutouts against West Chester and Central Connecticut State... Yielded one goal, completing her redshirt sophomore campaign with a 1.49 goals-against average.
West Chester (8/20): In the 8-0 win, she made her collegiate debut and played for a total of 26 minutes. Monmouth (9/03): Made her second collegiate appearance and played for a total of 20 minutes in the 4-1 win. Central Connecticut State (11/10): Played for a total of 15 minutes in the 7-0 win.
2022 • REDSHIRT FRESHMAN SEASON
Awards: Academic All-Big Ten.
Season: Did not see action.
2021 • FRESHMAN SEASON
Season: Utilized Redshirt.
HIGH SCHOOL & CLUB
Played high school soccer for Olentangy Orange High School and club soccer for Ohio Premier ECNL... Helped lead her high school team to a pair of conference championships in 2019 and 2020 and a district championship in 2019...Named Conference Player of the Year in 2020 and a 2020 Bimbo High School All-American. Earned first team All-Conference and first team All-District honors in 2020 and second team All-Ohio...Holds school records for shutouts in a career (29), shutouts in a season (13) and fewest goals conceded in a season (9)...Member of Ohio Premier ECNL that was a ECNL national qualifier in 2018 and 2019...Played for SC Buitenvelert, a Dutch soccer club while she lived abroad in Amsterdam from 2013-2016.
PERSONAL
Daughter of Gretchen and David Poorbaugh...Has one sister, Grace, who currently attends Penn State and is a student manager for the women's soccer program...Fourth generation Penn Stater...Father, David, was a member of the Penn State swimming program from 1984- 1989...Majoring in Science.
WHY PENN STATE
"I chose Penn State for its outstanding education, top tier soccer program, and ties to my family. I will be a fourth generation Penn Stater, and ever since I was little, I knew that Penn State was where I wanted to go to school. The women's soccer program at Penn State is recognized as one of the best in the country, and because of the incredible coaching staff, team, and the atmosphere that they have built, I knew that Penn State was where I belonged.”