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Sarah Hagg

Position:
Defender
Height:
5-8
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Horgenzell, Germany
Prev School:
Eastern Illinois

Honors

- 2023 AAC Championship Most Outstanding Defensive Player
- 2023 AAC Championship All-Tournament Team
- 2023 AAC Weekly Honor Roll (Sept. 18)
- 2023-24 AAC All-Academic Team

2024 (Senior)

- Started 18 of 19 games at center back
- Played 90 minutes on 15 occasions, finishing with 1,550 minutes
- Helped lead a backline to eight shutouts including six in nine matches

2023 (Junior)

- Started and played in all 22 matches for the Tigers
- Only player on team to play all 1,980 minutes of action this year
- Anchored a Tiger backline that recorded 13 shutouts - including a six-game span of no goals allowed
- Led the Memphis defense to allowing just 13 goals from opponents all season

Prior to Memphis/Personal

Joined the Tigers in the Spring of 2023
Spent the previous two seasons at Eastern Illinois
Named All-OVC Second Team twice and was the 2021 All-OVC Newcomer of the Year
Recorded over 2,600 minutes on the field in 30 matches played
Played club soccer for SV Alberweiler (U17) and SV Alberweiler (Women) since 2016
Helped her team to four consecutive WFV-U17 Junior Women’s State Championships, three WFV Women’s State Championships
Also led the team to the German Futsal Championship and the South German Futsal Championship in 2016-17 and 2018-19 seasons as well as the WFV Futsal Championship for four consecutive seasons (2016-19)
Daughter of Doris and Siegfried Hagg