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Maggie Illig

Position:
Defender/Forward
Height:
5-7
Class:
Sophomore
High School:
Troy Buchanan
Hometown:
Troy, Mo.

2024 (Junior): United Soccer Coaches All-North Region Second Team ... Second Team All-Big Ten ... CSC Academic All-District ... Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and Academic All-Big Ten selection ... Played in all 22 games for MSU, making 21 starts ... Totaled four points from one goal and a pair of assists in 1,706 minutes ... Played the most minutes of any field player in 2024 ... Played 48 minutes in MSU's season-opening, 2-1, win at No. 15 Notre Dame (8/15) ... Played a full 90 minutes in a 2-2 draw with No. 9 Arkansas (8/22) ... Aided in a 3-0 shutout against Ohio (8/25) ... Played 75 minutes in a 1-0 shutout over Ole Miss (8/29) ... Scored her first goal of the season in a 2-2 draw with No. 15 Xavier (9/1) ... Helped MSU to a 1-0 shutout in 68 minutes of action against Loyola Chicago (9/8) ... Tallied an assist in a 5-0 win at Maryland (9/12) ... Played 90 minutes in a 1-0 win at No. 9 Penn State (9/22) ... Played 84 minutes in a 2-2 draw at No. 11 Ohio State (9/26) ... Played 90 minutes in a 1-1 draw with Rutgers (9/29) ... Added a second-straight 90-minute outing in a 1-0 win against Michigan (10/5) ... Played 90 minutes at Washington (10/13) ... Recorded two-consecutive 87-minute matches in a 3-1 win over Purdue (10/27) and in MSU's Big Ten quarterfinal match against Rutgers (11/2) ... Played the full match in all three of MSU's NCAA Tournament games, including a 3-1 win over Western Michigan (11/16) and a 3-2 win against Texas in the second round (11/22) ... Added an assist on the golden goal in overtime against Texas ... Played all 90 minutes against Duke in the NCAA Sweet 16 (11/24) ... Named an honorable mention to the TopDrawerSoccer National Team of the Week on Nov. 26.

2023 (Sophomore): Played in 19 matches and made 17 starts, totaling three points from a goal and assist in 1,183 minutes ... Started in MSU's 1-0 season-opening win against Cincinnati, recording four shot attempts in 65 minutes (8/17) ... Played 49 minutes in the 3-1 win over Bowling Green (8/20) ... Tallied a pair of shots in the 7-0 win at Northern Colorado (8/24) ... Notched her first point of the season with an assist against Eastern Michigan (8/31) ... Played 83 minutes on the Spartan back line against Notre Dame (9/7) ... Recorded a shot attempt in MSU's 1-0 win at Wisconsin (9/24) ... Played 69 minutes in the 3-2 win at Michigan (10/7) ... Tallied a shot attempt in 65 minutes of play in the 2-0 win at Rutgers (10/15) ... Scored the opening goal in MSU's 3-0 win over Iowa to clinch the Spartans' second-straight B1G title (10/22) ... Started on the MSU back line in all three NCAA Tournament matches, playing a full 90 minute match in MSU's 1-0 win against Harvard to advance to the program's first NCAA Third Round (11/16).

2022 (Freshman): Appeared in 15 games, making three starts ... Totaled three points with a goal and assist in her inaugural collegiate campaign… Made the start in her collegiate debut and logged 36 minutes of action with a shot on goal and an assist at Bowling Green (8/18)… Saw 43 minutes on the field at Cincinnati (8/21)… Notched 32 minutes and put up a pair of shots against Binghamton (8/28)… Logged a pair of shots on goal in the 4-1 win over Dartmouth (9/1)… Logged a season-high 62 minutes in the shutout of Oakland (9/8)… Appeared in five Big Ten regular season contests, highlighted by her first collegiate goal at Maryland (10/2)… Played in MSU’s B1G Tournament semifinal win against Nebraska and NCAA Tournament opener against Milwaukee (11/3, 11/11).

Prior to MSU: Was a four-year letterwinner at Buchanan High School… Led her team in goals scored (20) in her junior campaign… Earned First Team All-Conference, All-District and All-Region honors while at Buchanan… Played club soccer for Sporting STL and coach Robert Kittner… Took home the Missouri State Cup championship in every season of her career… Was a Midwest Regional Champion and eventual National Finalist with Sporting STL in 2019… Competed with the Missouri State Team from 2015-17… Played four years of varsity basketball in high school in addition to her soccer commitments… Was a member of her high school’s chapter of the National Honor Society.

Personal: Daughter of Tamara and Ned Illig… Has three older siblings, Michael, Matthew and Madison… Majoring in Kinesiology and plans to pursue a career as a physical therapist following her soccer career.