Personal Statement
Having played most of my athletic career in Singapore, I will bring a unique perspective, playing style, mindset, and set of skills to your team.
I grew up in Singapore, which is not a country with well funded women's sports. I played on boys teams, women's pro teams, and any pick-up teams I could find through my adolescence. This unique experience lends itself to my competitive spirit, unwavering grit, and mature approach to the game.
Through my early experience, I was scouted to the Singapore National U15 and U17 women's soccer teams, where I played for four years pending dual citizenship with my pre-existing US passport. I discontinued my participation on the team when my Singapore citizen ship was sadly denied. After leaving the national team, I played in the Singapore Women's Premier League as both an underage and overseas player, the youngest on the current league champions, Lion City Sailors FC.
Living in Singapore also gave me the opportunity to play internationally in Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand, Sweden (at Gothia Cup, where I finished as a cup semi-finalist), England (where I was invited to train with Chelsea Women's U17 team), and the US (where I played in the Surf Cup U19 division when I was 15). My leadership skills also run deep, as shown by my captaincy of my ESA club team and my high school varsity soccer, touch rugby, and track teams. To continue to grow as a player and a leader, I have also been a coach of teams between the ages of 6 and 12 for over four years now.
After graduating from Singapore American School, I was given the opportunity to play on the Pepperdine University women's soccer team in the 2022 season as an outside back. Although I made friends for life on the team and the coaches were all I could have ever dreamed of, my experience at the University as a whole is not what I hoped it would be. Consequently, I am currently looking to transfer from Pepperdine to find a school that is a better fit for what I am looking for. Hopefully, I will be able to play soccer there too.
