2024 Women's Soccer Roster
Jersey Number 3
Desiree Mendoza
- Position:
- Forward
- Height:
- 5-4
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Costa Mesa, Calif.
- High School:
- Estancia HS
- Major:
- Education Science
2023
- Played and started all 24 matches with 1,155 minutes
- Scored three goals including one game-winner vs. Sacramento State
- Scored a brace at Cal State Bakersfield scoring twice in the span of 28 minutes
- Added four assists for 10 points
- Dean's List Fall and Winter quarters
- Big West Fall All-Academic
- Played in 18 matches starting 17 for 971 minutes
- Scored four goals including game-winners at CSUN and UC Riverside
- Added one assist for nine points
- Named to Big West Fall All-Academic Team
- Named Big West Freshman of the Week three times - Sept. 6, Oct. 18, and Nov. 1
- Made collegiate debut in season opener at UCLA played 30 minutes
- Played in 21 matches with 15 starts for a total of 946 minutes
- Scored three goals, all game-winners, at LMU, at Hawai'i, and vs. Cal Poly
- Posted nine points by adding three assists
- Earned Dean's List distinction in Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters
- Scored Big West Fall All-Academic honors
- Named to Big West Commissioner's Honor Roll with honors
Prep
- Attended Estancia High School
- Member of CIF Division V Semifinalist squad
- Orange League MVP
- Scored 28 goals in 15 matches for team in 2018
- Won 2019 Nationals
- Has two brothers
- Dad played soccer in college
- Also speaks Spanish
- Aspires to play pro soccer or be an elementary school teacher
- Fan of Real Madrid, the Yankees, and the Las Vegas Raiders
- Enjoys watching her favorite movie, Maze Runner, her favorite show, Grey's Anatomy, and listening to her favorite musician, Justin Bieber
- Enjoys her favorite foods, tacos, especially Marissa LeVine's, and grapes, and her favorite animals, dogs
- Would one day like to meet Kendall Jenner and visit Spain
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