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Morgan Bates Season 2023

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Height5-9
ClassSenior
HometownCincinnati, Ohio
2023 (SR): Team captain ... Played in 14 contests ... Scored three goals with one apiece against Robert Morris, Central Michigan and Senior Day versus Old Dominion, all wins ... Attempted seven shots on the year ... Academic All-AAC.

2022 (JR): Appeared in 17 games, starting the first five of them ... Scored five goals and added an assist …12 ground balls …6 caused turnovers …13 draw controls … Second career goal against Marquette … First career assist against Butler, including her first multi-goal game … Named to the IWCLA Honor Roll.

2021 (SO): Appeared in eight matches ... Scored one goal on two shots ... Recorded two ground balls and seven draw controls ... Named to the AAC's All-Academic Team.

2020 (FR): Appeared in three matches ... Recorded one draw control.

HIGH SCHOOL / PREP: A 2019 graduate of Sycamore High School (Cincinnati) … Four-year varsity player in both lacrosse and basketball ... In lacrosse, helped her team to the state semifinals in her final two years of play and the conference title her senior year ... Regional finalists her first two seasons ... Named the conference player of the year as a senior and earned all-state and US Lacrosse All-America honors ... Finished her career holding the school records in goals, points and draw controls while setting the single-season draw controls record her junior year ... Academically, was selected to the Honor Roll and the National Honor Society ... Also was a member of DECA and the Student Athletic Leadership Team.

PERSONAL: Comes from a very athletic family as she is the third child to play collegiately, the third in her family to compete for UC and the fifth overall to play in college ... Her dad (Doug) played football at Indiana and Cincinnati ... her brother Doug was a member of the UC football team (2016-19) before playing at Miami (Ohio) as a graduate transfer ... Brother Brenden plays football at Kentucky ... Grandfather Gene Neff played basketball and baseball at Kentucky and also spent six years playing with the Detroit Tigers.
 
WHY I CHOSE UC:
“I was born and raised in Cincinnati. Once I found out I could come play and represent my city, I couldn’t pass up that opportunity. My father and brother played football here, so I’m carrying on the family legacy of playing sports at this university. While watching many of my brother’s football games at Nippert, the energy and atmosphere drew me in! The campus is so convenient and very easy to navigate. I fell in love with it right when I stepped foot on campus.”
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Junior
2022

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Sophomore
2021

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Freshman
2020

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