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Northeastern Athletics/Jim Pierce
Northeastern Athletics/Jim Pierce
Northeastern Athletics/Jim Pierce
Northeastern Athletics/Jim Pierce
Northeastern Athletics/Jim Pierce
Northeastern Athletics/Jim Pierce
Northeastern Athletics/Jim Pierce

13 Mackenzie Dowd

  • Position Defender
  • Height 5-4
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Gig Harbor
  • Hometown Gig Harbor, Wash.

Biography

2016: 

• First Team All-CAA
• CAA All-Academic Team
• First Team NEWISA All-New England
• ECAC Scholar-Athlete of the Year
• Senior CLASS Award candidate
• Preseason All-CAA selection

Appeared in 22 games with 20 starts and tallied two goals and one assist...scored her first goal of the season in a win over Charleston on Oct. 2...assisted on the game-winning goal by Carina Deandreis against William & Mary on Oct. 7...scored a goal in a 3-0 win over Elon on Oct. 9.

2015: 

• 
CAA Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year (first in NU women's soccer history)
• First-Team All-CAA
• CoSIDA First Team Academic All-American
• CoSIDA Academic All-District
• NSCAA Second-Team All-Mid-Atlantic Region
• CAA women's soccer Fall Scholar-Athlete (second straight year)
• TopDrawerSoccer.com Preseason National Top 100 list (No. 70)
• TopDrawerSoccer.com Midseason National Top 100 list (No. 61)
• TopDrawerSoccer.com Team of the Week (Sept. 1, Oct. 6)
• CAA Co-Player of the Week (Oct. 5)
• Corvias ECAC Defensive Player of the Week (Oct. 6)
• Preseason All-CAA Team

Started all 20 games on defense and led the Huskies with 14 points on six goals and two assists...tied for the team lead in goals and game-winning goals (3)...assisted on Taylor Caparo's goal at No. 11 South Carolina on Aug. 21...scored the game-winning goal in the 92nd minute (OT) of a 2-1 victory over St. Joseph's on Aug. 28...scored off a Breeana Koemans corner kick on Aug. 30 at UMass Lowell......scored the game-winning penalty kick goal against Rhode Island on Sept. 13...assisted on Carina Deandreis' goal vs. Dartmouth on Sept. 18...scored the game-tying goal on an 86th-minute penalty kick, and the game-winning goal in the 91st minute of a 3-2, come-from-behind, overtime win over UNCW on Oct. 4...scored in the 40th minute of a 3-2 win at Towson on Oct. 11.

2014: 

• Second-Team All-CAA.
• CAA All-Academic Team
• Most Outstanding Player of the 2014 CAA championship
• CAA All-Tournament Team.
• Capital One Academic All-District Team
• Capital One Academic All-American
• First-Team NEWISA All-New England
• Third-Team All-Mid-Atlantic Region
• CAA Women's Soccer Fall Scholar-Athlete Award
• TopDrawerSoccer.com Team of the Week (Sept. 30, Oct. 7, Nov. 11)
• TopDrawerSoccer.com Player of the Week (Sept. 30)
• TopDrawerSoccer.com Midseason National Top 100 list (No. 98)
• CollegeSoccer360.com Primetime Performer for the week (Sept. 29-Oct. 5)
• CAA Player of the Week (Sept. 29)
• Corvias ECAC Offensive Player of the Week (Nov. 11)

Started all 23 games at right back and led the Huskies with seven goals...member of a back-four that set a new single-season program record with 17 shutouts in 23 games...netted the game-winning goal in the 80th minute of a 1-0 win at William & Mary on Sept. 26...scored on a diving header off a Bianca Calderone free kick on Oct. 3 vs. Towson...scored for the fourth straight game on a penalty kick in the 57th minute against James Madison on Oct. 5...scored in the CAA semifinals vs. William & Mary on Oct. 7...scored the game-winning goal in the CAA championship game vs. Hofstra on Oct. 9.


2013: 

• 
Named to the CAA All-Rookie Team

Made 13 starts and appeared in 20 games...scored her first collegiate goal in a 3-0 win at the College of Charleston on Sept. 27...scored in the penalty shootout against William & Mary in the CAA Semifinals on Nov. 8.


Before NU: Played one year of varsity soccer at Gig Harbor High, earning Defensive MVP as a freshman and All League...played her final three years with the Washington Premier FC...totalled eightgoals and seven assists in three seasons...also trained with the U-16 Boys national team...ranked as the No. 7 prospect in the Pacific Northwest by TopDrawerSoccer.com.

Personal: Finished second in the U-20 women's division at the Lake Meridian Triathlon...a National Merit Scholar commended student...majors in criminology and psychology at Northeastern with hopes of becoming a lawyer.
 
Mackenzie Dowd Career Statistics
Year GP/GS MIN G A PTS SH SOG GW
2013 20/13 1366 1 0 2 7 4 1
2014 23/23 2098 7 0 14 29 15 2
2015 20/20 1834 6 2 14 14 7 3
2016 22/20 1670 2 1 5 6 3 1
TOTAL 85/76 6968 16 3 35 56 29 7

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Historical Player Information

  • 23

    2013Freshman

    Defender
    5'5"
    23
  • 13

    2014Sophomore

    Defender
    5'5"
    13
  • 13

    2015Junior

    Defender
    5'4"
    13
  • 13

    2016Senior

    Defender
    5'4"
    13