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2023 CSC Academic All-District
2022 American Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year
2022 American Athletic Conference All-Conference First Team
2022 CSC Academic All-District
2021 American Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year
2021 MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List
2021 American Athletic Conference Preseason Defender of the Year
2020 American Athletic Conference Defender of the Year
2020 American Athletic Conference All-Tournament Team
2020 First-Team All-South Region by United Soccer Coaches
2019, 2020 American Athletic All-Conference First Team
2019 American Athletic Conference All-Rookie Team
AAC Defensive Player of the Week (4x): 9/30/19, 10/28/19, 3/8/21, 9/22/22
AAC Honor Roll: 9/20/21
2019 Ohio Soccer Coaches Association Division I All-Ohio First Team
2023 (Fifth Year Senior): Named to the CSC Academic All-District team, she closed out her Cincinnati career as one of the best to ever do it. She played a career-high 1,695 minutes this past season, bringing her career total to 7,111, the second most in program history. She joined only Giles and Kayla Utley as the only Bearcats to record over 7,000 career minutes played as non-goalkeepers. Barron also totaled two assists and a goal on the season, including assisting on the game-winning goal against Baylor in the first round of the 2023 Big 12 Soccer Championship Tournament to earn Cincinnati its first very Big 12 Tournament victory. Barron was the leader of the back line that recorded four shutouts during the season as she started every game this past season and played the full 90 in all but two. She started in 81 of her 82 career games, the ninth most in school history, and started every game since early in the 2019 season (76 games). Even as a defender, she still made her presence known on offense, scoring five career goals and recording five assists.
2022 (Senior): Named AAC Defensives Player of the Year for the third straight season becoming the only Bearcat and only AAC athlete, male or female, to win the honor three times… Earned her fourth consecutive AAC All-Conference first team honor… CSC All-Academic District honoree and collected a AAC Defensive Player of the week award… Started all 17 games as the anchor of the back line… Recorded over 1400 minutes played for the third time in her career (1,486 minutes)… Scored a career high two goals on 24 shots (7 on goal)…. She played for than 80 minutes in 15 out the 17 matches this season.
2021 (Junior): Repeated as the AAC Defensive Player of the Year while also earning First-Team accolades for the third time, joining only Paulette Angilecchia (1994-96) in that elite company ... CoSIDA Academic All-District as well, the first Bearcat to do so since 2017 ... also named to the MAC Hermann Award Watch List ... Cincinnati allowed just 169 shots, its fewest in a season since 2014 ... notched her first two assists on the year in the final two home games against SMU and UCF ... took four shots in the win over Tulsa and three against UCF.
2020-21 (Sophomore): Started all 11 contests, totaling 1,001 minutes ... only the second player to earn First-Team All-AAC accolades twice along with former standout defender Vanessa Gilles ... also the sixth defender to earn a postseason league superlative award (first since 2017) and to earn multiple postseason first-team accolades (across all positions)... scored a goal in the 3-0 win at Tulsa while taking seven shots on the year ... Led the back line that ranked in the top half of the league in goals-against-average (1.08), helping freshman goalie Anna Rexford rank among the league leaders in GAA and saves.
2019 (Freshman): One of the top defenders in the league as a freshman, was named to the 2019 AAC All-Conference First Team and the AAC All-Rookie Team... started in 18 of the 19 matches played in 2019... tallied two points on one goal... that lone goal also stood as the game-winner in a 1-0 decision over UCF... helped anchor a backline that posted eight shutouts on the year, including four in a row (2-0-2) that helped jumpstart the Bearcats’ run to a fourth-place showing in the league standings... logged 1,571 minutes, the most of any outfield player on the team and second only to starting keeper Madison Less (1,762)... earned Academic All-AAC honors following the season.
HIGH SCHOOL: A 2019 graduate of Notre Dame Academy (Toledo, Ohio)… four year member of the varsity soccer team, scoring 62 goals and adding 28 assists for 152 career points… three-time All-Ohio First Team selection and twice named United Soccer Coaches All-Region… twice named the district Player of the Year to go along with being named the Three Rivers Athletic Conference Player of the Year three times… four-time All-District honoree, including three selections to the first team, while also earning four selections at All-TRAC First Team… helped her team to the state Final Four as a sophomore and a spot in the regional finals twice (1-1)… three-time district champions and one-time TRAC champion (three-times runner-up)… on the club level, played for Pacesetter Soccer (Sylvania, Ohio)… helped the team to back-to-back OYSAN State Cup titles… 2017 MRL Champions… 2018 team were regional runners-up and made an appearance in the national tournament… along with soccer, played for the varsity basketball team four years and ran track for two years… in basketball, twice named all-district and all-conference… helped team to the state Final Four as a sophomore… comes from an athletic family as her mom, Tara, played volleyball at the University of Charleston.
2023 CSC Academic All-District
2022 American Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year
2022 American Athletic Conference All-Conference First Team
2022 CSC Academic All-District
2021 American Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year
2021 MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List
2021 American Athletic Conference Preseason Defender of the Year
2020 American Athletic Conference Defender of the Year
2020 American Athletic Conference All-Tournament Team
2020 First-Team All-South Region by United Soccer Coaches
2019, 2020 American Athletic All-Conference First Team
2019 American Athletic Conference All-Rookie Team
AAC Defensive Player of the Week (4x): 9/30/19, 10/28/19, 3/8/21, 9/22/22
AAC Honor Roll: 9/20/21
2019 Ohio Soccer Coaches Association Division I All-Ohio First Team
2023 (Fifth Year Senior): Named to the CSC Academic All-District team, she closed out her Cincinnati career as one of the best to ever do it. She played a career-high 1,695 minutes this past season, bringing her career total to 7,111, the second most in program history. She joined only Giles and Kayla Utley as the only Bearcats to record over 7,000 career minutes played as non-goalkeepers. Barron also totaled two assists and a goal on the season, including assisting on the game-winning goal against Baylor in the first round of the 2023 Big 12 Soccer Championship Tournament to earn Cincinnati its first very Big 12 Tournament victory. Barron was the leader of the back line that recorded four shutouts during the season as she started every game this past season and played the full 90 in all but two. She started in 81 of her 82 career games, the ninth most in school history, and started every game since early in the 2019 season (76 games). Even as a defender, she still made her presence known on offense, scoring five career goals and recording five assists.
2022 (Senior): Named AAC Defensives Player of the Year for the third straight season becoming the only Bearcat and only AAC athlete, male or female, to win the honor three times… Earned her fourth consecutive AAC All-Conference first team honor… CSC All-Academic District honoree and collected a AAC Defensive Player of the week award… Started all 17 games as the anchor of the back line… Recorded over 1400 minutes played for the third time in her career (1,486 minutes)… Scored a career high two goals on 24 shots (7 on goal)…. She played for than 80 minutes in 15 out the 17 matches this season.
2021 (Junior): Repeated as the AAC Defensive Player of the Year while also earning First-Team accolades for the third time, joining only Paulette Angilecchia (1994-96) in that elite company ... CoSIDA Academic All-District as well, the first Bearcat to do so since 2017 ... also named to the MAC Hermann Award Watch List ... Cincinnati allowed just 169 shots, its fewest in a season since 2014 ... notched her first two assists on the year in the final two home games against SMU and UCF ... took four shots in the win over Tulsa and three against UCF.
2020-21 (Sophomore): Started all 11 contests, totaling 1,001 minutes ... only the second player to earn First-Team All-AAC accolades twice along with former standout defender Vanessa Gilles ... also the sixth defender to earn a postseason league superlative award (first since 2017) and to earn multiple postseason first-team accolades (across all positions)... scored a goal in the 3-0 win at Tulsa while taking seven shots on the year ... Led the back line that ranked in the top half of the league in goals-against-average (1.08), helping freshman goalie Anna Rexford rank among the league leaders in GAA and saves.
2019 (Freshman): One of the top defenders in the league as a freshman, was named to the 2019 AAC All-Conference First Team and the AAC All-Rookie Team... started in 18 of the 19 matches played in 2019... tallied two points on one goal... that lone goal also stood as the game-winner in a 1-0 decision over UCF... helped anchor a backline that posted eight shutouts on the year, including four in a row (2-0-2) that helped jumpstart the Bearcats’ run to a fourth-place showing in the league standings... logged 1,571 minutes, the most of any outfield player on the team and second only to starting keeper Madison Less (1,762)... earned Academic All-AAC honors following the season.
HIGH SCHOOL: A 2019 graduate of Notre Dame Academy (Toledo, Ohio)… four year member of the varsity soccer team, scoring 62 goals and adding 28 assists for 152 career points… three-time All-Ohio First Team selection and twice named United Soccer Coaches All-Region… twice named the district Player of the Year to go along with being named the Three Rivers Athletic Conference Player of the Year three times… four-time All-District honoree, including three selections to the first team, while also earning four selections at All-TRAC First Team… helped her team to the state Final Four as a sophomore and a spot in the regional finals twice (1-1)… three-time district champions and one-time TRAC champion (three-times runner-up)… on the club level, played for Pacesetter Soccer (Sylvania, Ohio)… helped the team to back-to-back OYSAN State Cup titles… 2017 MRL Champions… 2018 team were regional runners-up and made an appearance in the national tournament… along with soccer, played for the varsity basketball team four years and ran track for two years… in basketball, twice named all-district and all-conference… helped team to the state Final Four as a sophomore… comes from an athletic family as her mom, Tara, played volleyball at the University of Charleston.