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Kayla Briggs

Position:
Midfielder
Class:
Junior
High School:
Monarch Park Collegiate Institute
Hometown:
Toronto, Ontario
Prev School:
Providence

2024 (at Providence): Started in all 12 games she played in for the Friars ... Tallied 1,063 minutes ... Recorded eight points on three goals and two assists ... Received Preseason All-BIG EAST Team honors ... Earned All-BIG EAST Second Team post-season honors ... Missed six games to participate on the Canadian National Team in the Under-20 FIFA World Cup where she scored two goals and recorded one assist.

2023 (at Providence): Played in 14 games for the Friars, including 13 appearances in the starting lineup … Registered 999 minutes at forward … Tallied her first collegiate goal against Brown University (Aug. 31) … Scored nine points on two goals and five assists … Earned a spot twice on the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Aug. 21, Sept. 4) … Received BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week honors (Oct. 16) … Earned All-BIG EAST Second Team honors.

With Team Canada: Received her second senior women's national team callup in May 2025, and played a pair of friendlies, including one against the USWNT on in early July ... Earned her first cap with Team Canada at the women's international series in British Columbia in April 2025, earning the start vs. Argentina ...  Played in the CONCACAF U20 Women’s Championship and Qualification Tournaments in both 2023 and 2024, where she recorded seven goals and three assist in nine games …Played in the U17 FIFA Women's World Cup in October 2022.

Prior to College: Attended Monarch Park Collegiate Institute… Played for the North Toronto Nitros, Team Canada’s Youth Program and the National Development Centre-Ontario … Recorded twenty-nine goals for the North Toronto Nitro’s in 2020 ... Had nine goals in 19 games for the National Development Centre … ... Helped lead her team a Gold Medal in the 2022 Canada Summer Games ... Played for the North Toronto Nitros for four years.

PERSONAL: Daughter of Angie and Bo Briggs ...  Has one brother, Tyler ... Played both soccer and hockey growing up in Toronto ... Human Biology major.