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  Yewande Balogun
Yewande Balogun

Player Profile
Class:
Junior

Hometown:
Bowie, Md.

High School:
Roosevelt

Height:
5-8

Position:
Goalkeeper

Major:
Marketing

Balogun's Honor Roll
• 2007 SoccerBuzz Freshman All-American Third Team
• 2007 SoccerBuzz All-Mid-Atlantic Freshman Team
• 2007 ACC All-Freshman Team

As a junior (2009): Has not seen game action.

As a sophomore (2008): Only had to make one save to earn her sixth career shutout, a 5-0 win over George Mason (8/23) ... three saves in 3-2 loss to Bucknell (8/29) ... one stop in 1-0 loss to Elon (8/31) ... played the second half, making two saves, in 10-0 win over Mount St. Mary's (9/21) ... three saves after relieving an injured Mary Casey in final 39 minutes of 2-0 loss at No. 14 Wake Forest (9/25) ... six saves in 5-0 loss at No. 3 North Carolina (9/28).

As a freshman (2007): Earned the start in the season opener, making three saves in 0-0 tie with Eastern Kentucky (8/31) ... one save in 2-1 win over Fairleigh Dickinson (9/2) ... six saves in 2-1 overtime loss to No. 13 USC (9/7) at Hoosier Classic ... picked up the shutout in 3-0 win over Loyola Marymount (9/9) at Hoosier Classic ... seven saves in 1-0 double-overtime win over Dartmouth (9/14) ... three saves in 1-0 win over George Mason (9/16) ... one save in 1-1 tie with Kent State (9/22) ... two saves in 1-0 double-overtime loss at No. 14 Clemson (9/27) ... became the first Terp goalkeeper to earn an assist since 1998 with her assist of Kaila Sciascia's second goal in 2-0 win over Lehigh (9/30) ... also made three saves vs. the Mountain Hawks ... six saves in 1-0 loss to No. 18 Wake Forest (10/5) ... eight saves in 2-1 overtime loss to No. 12 North Carolina (10/7) ... four saves in 2-0 loss at No. 15 Florida State (10/11) ... career-high nine saves in 1-0 loss at Miami (10/14) ... made six saves in 2-2 tie at Duke (10/21) ... three saves in 3-0 loss at No. 3 Virginia (10/25) ... did not give up a goal in 32 minutes of play before leaving the game due to a foot injury ... missed final three matches of the season.

Before Maryland: One of the nation's top goalkeeping recruits hailing from Roosevelt High School in Bowie, Md. ... invited to the 2007 U20 National Camp ... U14-U17 U.S. women's national team pool selection for her age group ... two-time NSCAA/adidas Youth All-American ... 2006 NSCAA/adidas High School All-American ... two-time Washington Post first team All-Met ... 2006 first team all-state after being a second-team honoree in 2005 ... three-time first team all-county ... two-time first team all-Examiner ... selected team captain as a senior ... helped lead the Raiders to the 2003 Maryland state 4A state championship ... member of the Maryland state ODP team and the Region 1 ODP team from 2002 to present ... selected for the 2005 US Youth Soccer ODP U17 adidas All-Star team.

Personal: Daughter of Tajudeen Balogun and Florence Munis ... full name is Zainab Yewande Omoyiola Balogun .... younger sister of Dami ... older sister of Harif and Khalid ... four-year member of the National Honor Society ... four-year winner of a Minds-In-Motion Academic Award ... majoring in marketing.

Yewande Balogun's Career Statistics
Season GP Minutes GA GAAvg Saves W L T Sho
2007 15 1392:23 13 0.84 62 5 6 3 5
2008 7 553:34 11 1.79 17 1 3 1 1
2009 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL 22 1945:57 24 1.11 79 6 9 4 6

Season GP Goals Assists Points Shots Shot% SOG SOG% GW PK-Att
2007 15 0 1 1 0 .000 0 .000 0 0-0
2008 7 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 0 0-0
2009 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 0 0-0
TOTAL 22 0 1 1 0 .000 0 .000 0 0-0

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