Casey Nogueira (2010) - Patterson Medal Winners - University of North Carolina Athletics

Casey Nogueira

Induction:
2010
Class:
2010

2010— Casey Nogueira: Women's Soccer
Helped win three NCAA women’s soccer championships and four ACC titles. She won the 2008-09 Mary Garber Award as the top female athlete in the ACC. Scored 55 goals and 139 points as a Tar Heel.

As a junior in 2008, she led the nation in scoring with 25 goals and swept virtually every national player of the year honor, capturing awards from Soccer America, the Honda Awards, Soccer Buzz, Soccer News Network and Top Drawer Soccer.

Nogueira scored the game-winning goal in four College Cup games – the 2006 semifinal versus UCLA, the 2006 final versus Notre Dame, the 2008 final versus Notre Dame and the 2009 semifinal versus Notre Dame.

She had the game-winning assist in the 2009 NCAA championship contest against Stanford. Nogueira was named the Most Outstanding Offensive Player at the 2008 and 2009 NCAA College Cups and was the Most Valuable Player of the 2008 and 2009 ACC Tournaments. She won All-Tournament honors in the NCAA College Cup three times.

Selected in the first round of the 2010 Women’s Professional Soccer Draft and played six professional seasons and made one appearance with the USWNT.