Jillian Fox '23 Recruiting Profile

My name is Jillian Fox and I’m a class of 2023 goalkeeper. I am looking for a highly academic school with a strong soccer program that is centered around a team mentality.

I have been playing soccer since I was 5 years old - earlier if you count being shot at in our small backyard goal by my older siblings, Anna and Ethan. Like many goalkeepers, I started as a field player - a striker - and slowly transitioned, before being fully committed to the position in 6th grade. Most of my coaches knew I would end up in goal before I even did. My high school coach still remembers me as the first grade girl who couldn’t get enough of his futsal program and so offered to stay on for multiple sessions - playing goal against third grade boys. He claims he said to his co-coach, “that kid is going to be a goalkeeper someday.”  Back then, what drew me to the goal was getting to dive all around the field, but now I have grown to love all aspects of the position and would say my strengths are my athleticism and a wide variety of types of distribution. 

I feel really confident in my desire to be part of a highly competitive program because I have played at almost every level: town, travel, club, NPL, and ECNL. I have loved rising to the challenge of playing for increasingly competitive teams and facing the best strikers. My most highly anticipated games are always the ones against the best teams, even if I know it could be an uphill battle and my team might lose. My goals of playing college soccer started at an early age, through seeing my sister’s process to commit to Colby College where she is now a sophomore. I identify as a student-athlete and am really looking forward to finding the right fit for my collegiate career.