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2015 Women's Soccer Roster

Brad Leeb / Illinois Athletics

3 Jannelle Flaws

  • Height 5-7
  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • Hometown Glenview, Ill.
  • High School Glenbrook South

Biography

Honors

  • 2015 All-Big Ten Second Team
  • 2015 Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week (Sept. 1, Oct. 29)
  • TopDrawer Soccer Player of the Week (Sept. 1)
  • 2015 Big Ten Preseason Player to Watch
  • 2015 TopDrawer Soccer Preseason Best XI Second Team
  • 2015 MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List
  • 2014 NSCAA Third-Team All-American
  • 2014 Academic All-Big Ten
  • 2014 Top Drawer Soccer Postseason Best XI Second Team
  • 2014 College Sports Madness First-Team All-American
  • 2014 College Soccer News Second-Team All-American
  • 2014 Soccer News Net College Boot Award Finalist
  • 2014 NSCAA First-Team All-Great Lakes Region
  • 2014 Repeated as Big Ten Forward of the Year (unanimous), first to do so in school history
  • 2014 Big Ten All-Tournament Team
  • 2014 NSCAA National Player of the Week (9/23)
  • 2014 ESPNW National Player of the Week (9/24)
  • 2014 Top Drawer Soccer National Player of the Week (9/23)
  • 2014 CSM National Offensive Player of the Week (9/22)
  • 2014 Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week (9/22)
  • 2014 MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List
  • 2014 Top Drawer Soccer Preseason Best XI Second Team
  • 2014 Big Ten Preseason Player to Watch
  • 2013 University of Illinois Dike Eddleman Female Athlete of the Year
  • 2013 Big Ten Forward of the Year
  • 2013 The Daily Illini Athlete of the Year
  • 2013 Top Drawer Soccer Third-Team Best XI
  • 2013 First-team NSCAA All-Great Lakes Region
  • 2013 First-team All-Big Ten
  • 2013 Sun Devil Classic All-Tournament Team
  • 2013 CollegeSoccer360.com Primetime Performer (10/15), Top Drawer Soccer Team of the Week Selection (10/15) and College Sports Madness Big Ten Player of the Week (10/15) 
  • 2013 Chicagoland Soccer News Player of the Week (9/1 & 10/20)
  • 2013 Academic All-Big Ten
  • 2013 Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week (9/1)
  • 2011 Big Ten All-Freshman Team
  • 2011 Academic All-Big Ten

Senior - 2015

  • Graduates as the school's all-time career leader in goals (54), shots on goal (169), points (122) and shots (349)
  • In Big Ten games only, she owns the most goals (29) and points (64) in school history
  • Tied the school's career goals record against TCU (Aug. 28) then posted a hat trick against Saint Louis (Aug. 30) to break the career record
  • Scored three goals in just nine minutes of play against Saint Louis (Aug. 30), marking the second fastest hat trick in school history
  • Scored a team-leading 11 goals and dished six assists, good for 28 points on the season
  • Fired a team-leading 88 shots on the year, putting 40 on goal

Redshirt-Senior - 2014

  • Led the Big Ten and tied for 12th in the NCAA with 17 goals
  • For the season, she scored in 11 of 20 games
  • From Sept. 14-28, she scored in five consecutive games, equaling the school record set by Emily Brown in 2000
  • Flaws scored 10 goals during that stretch, the most ever by an Illini in that span
  • Also became the first Illini to tally multiple goals in four straight games to start her streak: 2 at Nebraska; 2 vs. Indiana; 3 vs. Purdue; and 2 at Ohio State. Her fifth straight game with a goal came at Penn State
  • After leading the nation with 23 goals in 2013 and notching 17 goals in 2014, Flaws owns 40 goals in the past 43 games, which is tied for the second-most goals in the NCAA since the beginning of the 2013 season
  • Flaws equaled her career-high with three assists and led the Big Ten in shots (107) and points (37)
  • Also ranked 10th in the country in goals per game (0.850) and tied for 24th in total points (37)

Redshirt-Junior - 2013

  • Tied for first in the NCAA with a school-record 23 goals, which ranks as the sixth-most in a season by a Big Ten player
  • Led the Big Ten with 48 points (23 goals, 2 assists)
  • Broke Emily Brown's 14-year-old record of 18 goals from 1999
  • Set the Big Ten and school record for most shots in a season with 126
  • Equaled the Big Ten record for most shots in a game with 14 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament against Portland
  • Accounted for 43 percent (23 of 54) of Illinois' goals and averaged 1.00 goal per game
  • Found the net in 15 of 23 games, notched five game-winning goals and boasted six multi-goal games, including a pair of hat tricks
  • Named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week following her first career hat trick against Illinois State (9/1)
  • Initially took over the NCAA lead in goals and equaled Illinois' school record following her second career hat trick at Northwestern (10/17)
  • 2013 CollegeSoccer360.com Primetime Performer (10/15), Top Drawer Soccer Team of the Week Selection (10/15) and College Sports Madness Big Ten Player of the Week (10/15) after leading Illinois to a win over Wisconsin (10/12) with two goals

Redshirt-Sophomore - 2012

  • Did not play due to leg injury

Redshirt-Freshman - 2011

  • Played in 22 contests on the season mainly as a reserve forward, tallying her first collegiate goal vs. #13 Pepperdine and first collegiate assist vs. Oregon
  • Also scored a goal at Ohio State and assisted on another against Indiana
  • Made her first collegiate start against Michigan, scoring her final tally of the season during the contest

Freshman - 2010

  • Redshirted her first season after suffering a knee injury in her final high school season

High School

  • IHSSCA All-State as a junior and senior in 2009 and 2010 after earning all-sectional honors in 2007 and 2008
  • Four-time All-Central Suburban South
  • Two-time Chicago Sun-Times All-Area in 2009 and 2010
  • Three-time Central Suburban League All-Conference
  • Had 145 career goals and 329 career points, both of which are Glenbrook South records
  • Led Glenbrook in scoring all four years of her career
  • Scored a school-record five goals in a game for Glenbrook South in 2009
  • Helped Glenbrook South to regional titles in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and the sectional title in 2008 and 2010
  • 2010 Glenbrook team made the Class AAA state semifinals
  • Earned four letters in soccer and three in basketball, where she started as a point guard
  • Played club with ELA Elite, winning two State Cup titles (2003, 2004), one Region II title (2007) and advancing to nationals in 2007
  • Club coaches were Tom Chmela and Rick Guiney
  • Was a teammate on ELA Elite of former Illini teammate Kassidy Brown

Personal

  • Born Nov. 15, 1991
  • Daughter of Kenneth and Luanne Flaws
  • Has three siblings, Breanna, Teigan and Challen
  • Majoring in recreation, sport & tourism with a concentration in sport management
  • Comes from an athletic background with a number of relatives who have played Division I sports

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

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    2010Redshirt Freshman

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    2011Redshirt Freshman

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    2012Redshirt Sophomore

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  • 3

    2013Redshirt Junior

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    2014Redshirt Senior

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  • 3

    2015Redshirt Senior

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