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Vanessa DiNardo Season 2022

Pos.F
Height5-4
YearGraduate Student
HometownStrongsville, Ohio
HONORS
2021 All-American Athletic Conference Second Team
2019 American Athletic Preseason All-Conference Team
2018 All-American Athletic Conference Rookie Team (UNANIMOUS)
2018 Ohio Collegiate Soccer Association All-Ohio Second Team

2021: Earned All-AAC Second Team honors, ranking third in the conference with nine goals and 19 points and seventh with 43 shots… Started all 17 matches, totaling 1,474 minutes including logging over 100 minutes in three matches, (101) in a 2-1 (2OT) win at Murray State on Sept. 26, (110) in a 1-1 draw against East Carolina on Sept. 30 and (110) in a 3-3 draw against SMU on Oct. 17… Notched a team-high nine goals and one assist… Recorded a career-high two goals in a 3-3 draw against SMU on Oct. 17… Scored the Bearcats' first goal of the season against NKU on Aug. 19.

2020-21: Started nine of the 11 matches, totaling 740 minutes… Logged a season-high 84 minutes against Memphis on Mar. 18… Notched her lone goal against Temple on Mar. 14… Attempted a season-high four shots against Temple and Tennessee on Mar. 21.

2019: Earned All-AAC Academic Honors… Logged minutes in 16 matches with nine starts… Finished tied for second on the team with six points on two goals and two assists… Scored both her goals in a 2-0 win over St. John’s (NY) on Aug. 22… Scored both goals 21 seconds apart, 51:39 and 52:00, the fastest brace in program history… Assisted on a goal in a 2-0 win at Temple on Sept. 26 and added her second assist on the game winner in 1-0 win at SMU on Oct. 17… Named to AAC’s Preseason All-Conference Team as voted upon by the coaches.

2018: Saw action in 17 matches, making 10 starts… Earned a unanimous selection to the All-AAC Rookie Team… Named to the Ohio Collegiate Soccer Association All-Ohio Second Team… Started six of the final seven matches… Recorded a goal and an assist… Tied for fifth on the team in goals and tied for the most points by a newcomer… Notched her first collegiate goal, while playing a season-high 102 minutes, in 2-2 (2OT) draw against Temple on Oct. 11… Recorded her first collegiate point with an assist on the game winner in a 2-1 (OT) win over Lipscomb on Sept. 13… Earned a start in her collegiate debut against Eastern Kentucky on Aug. 16.

High School/Prep: Lettered for Strongsville High School... Competed on varsity all four years, scoring 65 goals… Named a 2017 All-American and All-Region honoree… 2017 Ohio Division I State Player of the Year along with All-Greater Cleveland and Cleveland Post Player of the Year… All-State First-Team as a senior after earning Second-Team honors as a junior… Three-time All-Greater Cleveland section… Helped her team to four-consecutive sectional titles and three district titles… Advanced to the regional final as a senior… Competed on the club circuit for Cleveland FC and Ambassadors FC.

Personal: Daughter of Antoinette and Anthony DiNardo… Born April, 29, 2000… Has one sister, Dominique, who played soccer for Kent State… Her cousins, Denis and Danielle played soccer for Bowling Green, while another cousin Greg Kacsmark played hockey for Cleveland State… Graduated with a Bachelors in Arts and Science.
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Senior
2021

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Junior
2020

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Sophomore
2019

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Freshman
2018

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