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#6 Wasila Diwura-Soale Season 2024

Position
Midfielder
Height
5'2
Class
Senior
Hometown
Accra, Ghana
High School
Tamale HS
Previous School
Lamar

All-SEC Second Team (2022)
NCAA All-Region Team (2022)
2021 Fall SEC Academic Honor Roll
2020-21 SEC First Year Academic Honor Roll

FIFTH-YEAR SENIOR SEASON (2022)
Started in 20 of 21 matches for LSU…played 1,616 minutes on the pitch for a career high… scored four goals on the year: first against Princeton, two against Ole Miss and one against Florida State in the second round of the NCAA tournament…recorded 12 shots and four shots on goal this year… pivotal playmaker on both sides of the ball… finished her career with 4,223 minutes on the pitch and started in 53 matches for the Tigers…. earned Second-Team All-SEC honors…named to the United Soccer Coaches NCAA All-Region Team.

SENIOR SEASON (2021)
Played in 19 of 20 matches for LSU on the season … played a pivotal role in the midfield … scored the gamewinner in LSU’s 2-1 win over Southern Miss on Aug. 19 … registered an assist in LSU’s 8-0 victory over Sam Houston … played 1,178 minutes on the season … started 16 matches … took 16 shots on the season … notched a season high 82 minutes of playing time in LSU’s 4-2 win over No. 4 Arkansas on Oct. 28 … called up to the Ghanian Senior National Team on Sept. 12 to represent her country at the 2021 Aisha Buhari Invitational.

JUNIOR SEASON (2020-21)
Started 17 of 19 matches in midfield for LSU in her debut season in the Purple and Gold … first assist of her LSU career came on Nov. 6 in road match at No. 8 Texas A&M as she assisted on an Tinaya Alexander goal … registered an assist in three consecutive games in the spring (South Alabama, Southern, and Dallas Baptist) … her four assists on the year led the team … logged 1,432 minutes of playing time … took 16 shots on the season, six of which were on goal.

PRIOR TO LSU
Member of Ghana’s U20 World Cup  squad in 2016 … spent time at Lamar University (2019) and Navarro College (2017-18) before arriving in Baton Rouge … earned four starts for Lamar before suffering season-ending injury … was a two-time NJCAA First Team All-American at Navarro in 2017 and 2018 … scored 30 goals and had 28 assists in her two seasons at Navarro … nine of her 30 goals at Navarro were gamewinners … helped Navarro to the NJCAA Tournament quarterfinals in 2018.

PERSONAL
Daughter of Diwura Soale … majoring in exercise science.

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