2021 Women's Soccer Roster
Roster
Mijke Roelfsema
- Position:
- Defender
- Height:
- 5-8
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- The Netherlands
- Hometown:
- Den Haag
HONORS
2020-21 United Soccer Coaches First Team All-American
2020-21 College Soccer News Second Team All-American
2020-21 TopDrawerSoccer Third Team All-American
2020-21 MAC Hermann Trophy National Semifinalist
United Soccer Coaches All-South Region (2021-22 First Team, 2019 Second Team)
2020-21 Conference USA Defender of the Year
All-Conference USA (2020-21 First Team, 2019 Second Team)
2020-21 TopDrawerSoccer Top 100 Players (No. 29)
2021 College Soccer News First Team Preseason All-American
2021 Top DrawerSoccer Third Team Preseason Best XI
2021 MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List
Conference USA Defender of the Week (Oct. 7, 2019; Mar. 23, 2021)
2021 Conference USA Preseason Defender of the Year
2021 Conference USA Preseason Team
2020-21 United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-American
2020-21, 2021 Conference USA Second Team All-Academic
2020-21 Rice Scholar Athlete
2020, 2021 & 2022 Conference USA Academic Medal
2020. 2021 & 2022 Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll
2021: College Soccer News Preseason First Team All-American … TopDrawerSoccer Preseason Third Team Best XI … Conference USA Preseason Team … Conference USA Preseason Defender of the Year … C-USA All-Academic Second Team .. Hermann Trophy Preseason Watch List … Senior CLASS Award Candidate … TopDrawerSoccer Midseason Top 100 (No. 63) … played and started in 12 matches before suffering a season-ending injury at WKU … helped limit all opponents to 13.8 shots per game and just 5.9 shots on goal per game … recorded a pair of assists against Texas State (9/2) and at UTEP (9/16), the latter was on Ziyana Samanani’s game-winning goal.
2020-2021: All-American (First Team, United Coaches; Second Team, CollegeSoccerNews; Third Team TopDrawerSoccer); MAC Hermann Trophy national semifinalist; All-South Region (First Team, United Coaches); National Top 100 Players List (No. 29 overall, TopDrawerSoccer); Scholar All-America (First Team, United Coaches); C-USA Academic Medalist; C-USA Academic Honor Roll; C-USA Soccer All-Academic (Second Team); C-USA Defender of the Year; All-Conference USA (First Team); Rice Scholar Athlete; C-USA Defensive Player of the Week (March 23); Started all 18 matches, extending her Rice streak of starts to 37 in a row dating back to her first season (Fall 2019)… Finished second on the team in minutes played (1,614)… Rarely came off the field, playing in 97.4 percent of the team’s total time (and 98.2 percent of C-USA league games)… Helped the Rice defense yield an austere 12.4 shots per game and pile up 11 shutouts… Defender who also scored three goals and had a pair of assists… Tied the game with a second half goal against nationally-ranked Texas A&M (which the Owls went on to win in double overtime)... Also scored goals on a corner kick against C-USA power North Texas, and in the opening round of the C-USA Tournament vs. Old Dominion… Contributed to Rice advancing in the C-USA Tournament by scoring a goal that does not go in the ledgers when she converted her shot attempt in the PK shootout of the semifinal vs. Southern Miss… Recorded the assist on the game-tying goal at UTSA and Catarina Albuquerque’s game-winning goal vs. UTEP… Tallied a total of 11 shots and a .455 shots-on-goal percentage.2019: All-South Region (Second Team, United Soccer Coaches); All-Conference USA (Second Team); C-USA Co-Defender of the Week (Oct. 7); Made an immediate impact in first season with the program, starting all 19 games on defense are rarely coming off the field… Was on the field a team-leading 1,732 of the Owls’ 1779 total minutes (97.4 percent)… Played a 90 or more minutes in a game 16 different times… Anchored a defense that allowed just 11.1 shots per game… Provided an attacking presence out of the backline, finishing fifth on the team with 14 shots… Recorded an assist against crosstown rival Houston.
Prior To Rice
Played the 2018 and 2017 seasons at Boston College. In 2018 she started 15 matches and logged more than 1,300 total minutes for an Atlantic Coast Conference program that posted a 14-5-1 record and earned a Top 16 national seed in the NCAA Tournament. Where Roelfsma was a key part of swarming Golden Eagle defense that held opponents to an austere 8.5 shots per game, she also provided an attacking presence out of the backline. A year ago the Den Haag native scored the game-winning goal against crosstown rival Boston University.
Prior to Boston College she played in the top women’s division of Dutch football for ADO Den Haag. Roelfsema was a member of her country’s U-19 national team that competed at the European Championship qualifier in The Netherlands. She also played for the Dutch U-19 team in the international friendly tournament in Spain in 2017.
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