2017 Soccer Roster
Jersey Number 22
Olivia Schmitt
- Position:
- M
- Height:
- 5-4
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Naperville, Ill.
- High School:
- Neuqua Valley
Career Honors
- 2017 Academic All-Big Ten
Senior - 2017
- Played in eight games for the Illini and made two starts
Junior - 2016
- Made her first career appearance in the Orange and Blue against Evansville (Sept. 11), playing 18 minutes in the match
- Fired her first career shot against Evansville
Sophomore - 2015
- Did not appear in any games for Illinois
Freshman - 2014
- Did not see action for the Illini
High School
- Member of the Philippine Women's National Team
- Earned three international caps as a starter against Indonesia, Japan U-23 and Myanmar in the 2013 ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Women's Championship in Yangon, Myanmar
- Named to the Olympic Development Program (ODP) State Team three times (2010-12)
- Two-time ODP Region II player pool participant (2010, 12)
- Was invited to the USYS ODP Interregional National Development Camp in 2011
- Top Drawer Soccer 2014 Girls IMG Academy 150 Player Pool
- Scored 35 goals and tallied 54 assists during Team Chicago club career
- Was an Upstate Eight Conference (UEC) all-conference selection and two-time UEC academic all-conference honoree
- Won three IHSA regional championships (2011-13)
- Earned four varsity letters in soccer
Personal
- Full name is Olivia Isabel Schmitt
- Born April 3, 1996
- Parents are Jim and Vida Schmitt
- Has two siblings, Julia and Nathaniel
- Plans to major in broadcast journalism
- Hobbies outside of soccer include spending time with family and friends, traveling, working out and shopping
- Dream job is to be a news reporter for ESPN
- Her biggest thrill in sports was representing her Filipino roots by playing on the Philippine Women's National Team and getting the opportunity to travel Asia
- Her parents most influenced her athletic career because they have always supported her goals and encouraged her to follow her dreams, no matter how big they were
- Her family is full of Illini tradition (mom, aunt and uncle all attended U of I), so it has been a major part of her childhood and a place she always dreamed of going
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