2024 Women's Soccer Roster
Roster
Mikala Furuto
- Height:
- 5-3
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Chatfield H.S.
- Hometown:
- Littleton, Colo.
Rice's All-Time Leader in Games Played - 94 Games (Tied with Catarina Albuquerque)
Third All-Time in Games Started - 84 Games
ATHLETIC HONORS
2022 Second Team All-Conference USA
2020-21 (Spring) United Soccer Coaches Second Team All-South Region
2020-21 (Spring) Conference USA All-Freshman Team
2020-21 (Spring) TopDrawerSoccer Top 100 Freshman (No. 36)
2020-21 Rice Athletics Co-Female Newcomer of the Year
ACADEMIC HONORS
2024-25 AAC All-District Team
2023-24 AAC All-Academic Team
2024 Rice Honor Athlete
2023 Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll
2022 Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll
2021 Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll
2024: Started in all 20 games...One of five Owls to start in all 20 games...Had an assist against Louisiana...Became Rice's all-time games played leader and third all-time in career games started...Played a full 90 minutes in 15 matches...Had 10 shots with seven being on goal.
2023: Started in all 18 games this season...One of three players to start in all 18 matches...Most minutes played with 1,594 minutes...Played a full 90 14 times...Recorded one assist at UAB...Had five shots (one on goal).
2022: Second Team All-Conference USA … one of five players to start all 20 matches … second on the team with 1,663 minutes played … played all 90 minutes 14 times … had 10 shots on the year … had an .800 shots on goal percentage … set career-highs with two goals and four points in a win over Incarnate Word (8/28), where she also had a season-high three shots and two shots on goal.
2021: Played in all 18 games, making 15 starts, including the final 13 of the year … had a 40.0% shots on goal percentage … logged 1,364 minutes of playing time, including a career-best 110 minutes against North Texas (10/28) and Middle Tennessee (11/3) … played at least 80 minutes nine times … had a career-high three shots three times (Texas State, Houston, SMU) … recorded a career-high three shots on goal versus Houston (9/9).
2020-2021: Rice Athletics Co-Female Newcomer of the Year; All-South Region (Second Team, United Coaches); National Top 100 Freshmen (No. 36 overall, TopDrawerSoccer); C-USA Academic Honor Roll; All-Conference USA Freshman Team; Registered a sensational debut season of Division I soccer, leading the team in goals (6) and finishing second on the squad in assists (4) and points (16)… Played in all 18 games and started each of the last 12 matches to close out the year… Rice went 10-1-1 with her in the starting lineup… Came off the bench to score the game-winning goal in the team’s opening match of the season, becoming only the tenth player in the 20-year history of the varsity soccer program to score a goal in her first collegiate game… Also became the only the 23rd Owl in program history to have their first career goal serve as the game-winning goal… Scored in three-straight games vs. Houston Baptist, Southern Miss and UAB, with two of the goals proving to be game-winners (giving her three on the season to share the team lead)… Tallied the team’s final goal of the game in the 3-1 NCAA Tournament victory over Southern Conference Champion Furman… Furman match was the first time to attempt more than one shot in a game, finishing with two attempts… The high goal total and low shot attempts helped build a .700 shots-on-goal percentage… Recorded the assist on Delaney Schultz’ game-winning goal in the C-USA road match at LA Tech… Logged 1,066 minutes of playing time, the eighth-highest total on the team… Played 83 or more minutes four times, with a career-high 96 in the double-overtime thriller vs. Southern Miss in the C-USA semifinals.
Prior To Rice
Joined Rice from the Real Colorado midfield (the same club as current Rice Owl Shiloh Miller)… Earlier in her career she also played for Colorado Rush (the same club as current Rice Owl Izzy McBride)… Tabbed as a three-star recruit by TopDrawerSoccer.com… Selected to 2017 Western Region ECNL Player Development Program (PDP), U.S. Soccer’s Training Center Participant and Identification & Development Program Training in 2016… Played to Colorado Rush Select U.S. National Team in 2015 and 2016.
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