Lauren Brzykcy
PRONUNCIATION:
Lah-Rehn Bris-kee
HEIGHT:
5’10”
DOB:
Nov. 8, 1999
HOMETOWN:
San Clemente, CA
COLLEGE:
UCLA
POSITION:
Goalkeeper
JERSEY NUMBER:
17
AGE:
23
CITIZENSHIP:
USA
LAST CLUB:
HOW ACQUIRED:
Drafted 33rd overall by the Wave in January 2023, Contracted through 2024
COLLEGE: Brzykcy, a San Clemente, Calif. native, played at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 2017-22, where she made 77 appearances (74 starts) for the Bruins. The 5’10” goalkeeper led the Bruins to the 2022 National Championship in her final season at UCLA, where she recorded 73 saves and led the Pac-12 with 14 shutouts. A Pac-12 All-Freshman, Brzykcy also earned Pac-12 Goalkeeper of the Year (2020), second-team All-Pacific Regional and All-Pac-12 honors (2021-2022) and first-team All-Pacific Region honors (2022) during her tenure at UCLA. Additionally, Brzykcy has earned the following collegiate awards:
- 2020-Third-team United Soccer Coaches All-American
- 2020-First-team Scholar All-American
- 2020- First team All-Region
- 2020-First-team all-conference …
- 2020 and 2022 Selected to the CoSIDA Academic All-District first team
- 2019-2022 Named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll four years in a row
- 2020 and 2021 won the Pac 12 conference titles
- Selected Pac 12 goal keeper of the week 8 times during her career at UCLA
- 2021 and 2022 Selected to the Mac Hermann Trophy Watch List
- Moved into UCLA’s Top 5 for goals against average (0.65), career saves (234), career shutouts (29) and wins (59).
