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Sophie Dawe
Position
Goalkeeper
Height
5-11
Class
Freshman
Hometown
Memphis, Tenn.
High School
Houston HS
LADY LOBOS RUSH 04/05 E64
- D1 Southern Regional Champions in 2021 and 2022
- National Championship semi-finalist in 2021
- 2017-2022 D1 Tennessee State Champions
HIGH SCHOOL
- Played four years of soccer at Houston High School in Germantown, Tennessee
- D1 AAA Regional Champions four straight years (2019-2022)
- D1 AAA District Champions three years (2019, 2020, 2022)
- Posted a goals against average of 0.26 her senior season
- Played in the high school All-American game and the THSSCA/TACA Senior All-Star Game in 2022
- 2022 USYS National League 17U Best XI goalkeeper
- 2021 Goalkeeper of the Year
- All-Metro team
- Commercial Appeal Top 20 Players to Watch
PERSONAL
- Daughter of Jon and Kapka Dawe
- Has four sisters, Hannah, Gabbie, Jacqueline and Jordan, and two brothers, Grant and Joseph
- Her sister, Gabbie, is also currently a goalkeeper at KU
- Her great-great grandfather is Dr. James Naismith, the inventor of basketball and the first men’s basketball coach at Kansas
- Committed to Kansas in March 2022
- Picked Kansas over Samford, Arkansas State and Northwestern
- Chose Kansas because, “Ultimately my goal is to play professionally before pursuing my career in the medical field and I believe that KU’s highly experienced coaching staff, especially in goalkeeping, can help achieve these goals.”
- Plans to go into the healthcare field after soccer
- Majoring in biology