2016 Soccer Roster
Roster
Kelly Dorney
- Position:
- Midfielder
- Height:
- 5-6
- Class:
- Junior
- High School/Previous School:
- Huntsville HS
- Hometown:
- Huntsville, Ala.
2017Â (SENIOR)
Led the Bulldogs in minutes during her final season in the Maroon and White with 1,683, starting all 18 matches at center back… Played the entire match a team-best 14 times… Tied her career high with three shots on goal against Missouri State on Aug. 20… Scored the game-winner on a penalty kick at Louisiana Tech on Aug. 24… Went the distance in a team-best 13 of State’s 18 contests, including the full 110 minutes in all four of MSU’s draws… Had one of the squad’s better shot-on-goal percentage (.647) with 11 of her 17 shots being on-target.
2016 (JUNIOR)
Earned a career-high 15 appearances in her junior season… Logged 262 minutes with a season high 30 minutes coming against LSU… Scored her first collegiate goal in the 3-1 win over UT Martin… Tallied five shots with three on goal.
2015 (SOPHOMORE)
Played in two games for the Bulldogs, starting once versus Florida Gulf Coast (Aug. 28)… Logged 149 minutes in her sophomore season, going the distance against FGCU (Aug. 28).
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2014 (FRESHMAN)
Made six starts with a total of 13 appearances on the season … Logged 756 of time on the field and averaged over 58 minutes per appearance … Took six shots with four of them having been on goal … Made her collegiate debut and her first start in the season opener against Iowa State (Aug. 22) in 27 minutes of action … Took her first shot against Cincinnati (Aug. 24) and her first shot on goal at Arkansas State (Sept. 4) … Played a full 90 minutes at Furman (Aug. 28), marking a season-long for minutes played in a game.
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HIGH SCHOOL/CLUB
Four-star defender from TopDrawerSoccer.com… Named to TopDrawerSoccer.com IMG Academy 150 list (No. 131)… Ranked the No. 12 overall recruit in South Atlantic Region and the 27th-best defender in the nation by TopDrawerSoccer.com… Named All-Tennessee Valley Girls Player of the Year after scoring 14 goals and assisting 12 more in leading her final Huntsville High School squad to the Alabama Class 6A semifinals… Scored four of the Panthers’ eight goals while setting up two more in the four playoff games… Captained the team her junior year at Huntsville High School and scored a team-best 19 goals and 43 points in leading the squad to the 6A state semifinals with an 18-4 record… Named to NSCAA All-State Overall First Team, All-State 6A First Team and Huntsville Times Elite Soccer First Team in 2013… Voted by her team as the Best First Year Player and Most Valuable Defensive Player… Played the past two seasons with Brian Moore’s Concorde Fire before after previously playing for Jason Lockhart and Jay Howell at BUSA… Anchored the defense of the Concorde Fire that has produced 25 wins the last two seasons… Helped her team win the ECNL U18 Southeast Conference Championship this past fall to earn a spot in the U18 ECNL National Championship in the summer of 2014… Pitched in on the offensive end with a goal and three assists for five points in the fall… While at BUSA in 2011, helped her team win the USYS Region III Premier League Central Division championship and advance to the quarterfinals of the USYS Region III Championship… Started all 26 games for BUSA in 2011, scoring a goal and setting up three as a defender… Helped her team win the State Cup in Alabama DI in 2010… Represented Alabama on its ODP teams from 2006-09 and was invited to Region camp each season… Selected to the ECNL Performance Development Program in Greenville, S.C., in 2012… Invited to the U.S. Soccer Federation Training Center in Atlanta, Ga., that same year.
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COMMUNITY SERVICE/ACADEMICS
Volunteers at a nursing home in her hometown… Participates in car pool meet and greets with area schools alongside her teammates… Named to the 2015 and 2016 Fall SEC Academic Honor Roll lists… Member of the President’s Scholar List in 2016.
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PERSONAL
Born Kelly Anne Dorney on April 21, 1996 in Kalamazoo, Mich. … The daughter of Daniel and Suzanne Dorney, and has a brother, Sean… Parents work at NASA… Majoring in political science… Favorite team to face is Alabama… Favorite thing about soccer is working out at 6 a.m.… Goal after college is to get into law school…Loves watching hockey and roots for the Detroit Redwings.
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