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Sophia Finotti Season 2022

PositionD
Height5-4
ClassJunior
HometownWesterville, Ohio
2023 (SR): Started all 18 matches to continue her role as key defensive leader ... AAC Defender of the Week on March 20, helping UC to 14-14 clears with two caused turnovers and no allowed shots in first quarter of 19-6 win over Vanderbilt ... Second on team with 16 caused turnovers and third with 25 ground balls ... Academic All-AAC.

2022 (JR): Started all 17 matches ... Picked up 38 draw controls and 17 ground balls while causing 15 turnovers, ranking near the top of the team in each of those ... Had career-high five draw controls apiece against Ohio State, Akron and Old Dominion. 

2021 (SO): Appeared in 12 matches and started eight...recorded four draw controls and 12 ground balls...Named to the AAC's All-Academic Team.

2020 (FR): Appeared in six matches...recorded three draw controls and one ground ball.

HIGH SCHOOL / PREP: A 2019 graduate of St. Francis DeSales High School (Columbus, Ohio)… four-year member of the varsity team that also was coached by her father, Joe... helped her team to a pair of Ohio Division II crowns, including 2016 and 2019... four-time regional champion as well... named a US Lacrosse All-American in 2019... two-time team MVP, including her senior year after she broke the school’s all-time goal record with 258... scored 98 goals her senior year to hit the record... added 14 assists in her career for 272 career points... four-time all-league first-team honoree... four-time all-region selection, including first-team her final three years... three-time all-state, including first team as a senior... four-time Academic All-Ohio... played club lacrosse for Lucky Lax...

PERSONAL: The second member of her family to play lacrosse at UC, joining her sister Jennie, who is a junior.
 
WHY I CHOSE UC:
“I chose UC because, on my visits, I enjoyed the coaches and teammates, and it just felt like home for me. The campus offers many academic opportunities and activities I can be part of. I felt the most comfortable here at UC.”
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Graduate Student
2024

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5-4 / -
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Senior
2023

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5-4 / -
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Sophomore
2021

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5-4 / -
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Freshman
2020

M/D
5-4 / -