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Sydney Waiters Season 2023

Pos.D
Height5-10
YearGraduate Student
HometownMiami, Fla.
Previous SchoolCornell
Prior to UC (Cornell)
2022 (Senior) Logged six appearances while making five starts ... after appearing in season opener, missed next nine matches due to injury ... Lone shot attempt of season came against Princeton on Oct. 29, but was off target.

2021 (Junior) Appeared in seven games, starting two contests for the Cornell ... Opened contests against Colgate and Yale.

2020 (Sophomore) Season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2019 (Freshman) Earned immediate role in central defense, starting nine games and appearing in all but one of team's 15 games ... Logged 918 minutes in all, which was second-most among freshman players.


High School: Competed on club level with Sunrise SC, winning the US Youth Soccer Club National championship and Southern Region title in, along with four Florida State Cup championships ... Played for four years at American Heritage School, earning state titles in 2016 and 2019 and semifinal berths in 2017 and 2018 ... Named to Sun Sentinel All-Broward County First Team and Miami Herald First Team in 2019 ... Member of the National Honor Society and received High Honors Achievement.

Personal: Sydney Alexandra Waiters is a native of Miami, Fl born on Dec. 12, 2000.. Daughter of Van and Denese Waiters, and she two brothers and one sister ... Father, Van, played football at Indiana before spending five years in the NFL with the Cleveland Browns and Minnesota Vikings… Plans to earn her masters degree in Sports Administration while at UC… Graduate from Cornell with a degree in Psychology.