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Shira Elinav
Position
Forward
Height
5-6
Class
Sophomore
Hometown
Mazkeret Batya, Israel
High School
Shefayim HS
SENIOR – 2023
- Academic All-Big 12 First Team
- Appeared in nine matches (seven starts)
- Finished the season with one assist vs. Kansas State (Oct. 23)
- Logged 514 minutes
- Played a season-high 68 minutes at Iowa State (Oct. 12)
- Missed the first nine games of the season with an injury
JUNIOR – 2022
- Academic All-District Team by College Sport Communicators
- Academic All-Big 12 First Team
- Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week (Oct. 4)
- Appeared in all 20 matches (18 starts)
- Started the final 18 matches of the season
- Led the team in goals (8) and shots (45), tied for the most points (20) and shots on goal (22) and tied for second in assists (4)
- Tied for fourth in the Big 12 in goals (8) and tied for fifth in points (20)
- Scored two goals at Drake (Aug. 28); first career multi-goal game
- Recorded 45 shots, including 22 shots on goal
- Logged 1,181 minutes
- Played a season-high 78 minutes at K-State (Oct. 21)
SOPHOMORE – 2021
- Academic All-Big 12 First Team
- Appeared in 17 matches (six starts)
- Finished the season with four goals and two assists
- Game-winning goals in back-to-back games at Arkansas State (Sept. 5) and vs. Cincinnati (Sept. 9)
- Tallied 21 shots, including 14 shots on goal
- Team rankings: 2nd – goals (4), T-2nd – points (10), T-2nd – shots on goal (14)
- Logged 737 minutes
- Played a season-high 78 minutes at Oklahoma
FRESHMAN – 2020
- Academic All-Big 12 Rookie Team
- Appeared in 13 matches making four starts
- Scored her first-career goal at Kansas State on March 6
- Finished the season with 19 shots, including a season-high six at Iowa State on Nov. 6
- Played a season-high 84 minutes at Iowa State on March 20
ISRAEL WOMEN’S NATIONAL TEAM
- Collected 11 caps in her career
- Started for Israel in its World Cup qualifier on Sept. 19, 2021 against Portugal
- Has two goals and one assist for her country in international play
- Scored her first career goal on March 10, 2020 against Georgia
- Knocked in her second goal on April 13, 2022 against Turkey
- Tallied her first assist on June 23, 2022 against Bulgaria
ISRAEL YOUTH NATIONAL TEAMS
- Came to Lawrence having already built an impressive resume as one of Israel’s top young players
- Spent five years on her country’s youth national teams, where she netted 11 goals in 24 international matches
- Was called up to Israel’s senior national squad in fall of 2019 for the team’s six EURO qualifiers
- In those six outings, she logged over 300 minutes and netted a goal in her team’s 4-0 win over Georgia in early March
CLUB
- Spent several years playing in the top women’s leagues in Israel
- Coming off a stint with F.C. Ramat Hasharon, which she helped to the league championship in 2019-20
PERSONAL
- Daughter of Eran and Hila Elinav
- Has one twin brother, Omri, and a younger sister, Inbal
- Began playing soccer when she moved to the U.S. in 2009
- Served in the Israel military from 2018-2020 before coming to Kansas
- Majoring in biology