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Sarah Clark Season 2018

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PositionDEFENDER
Height5-6
YearSophomore
HometownBrighton, Mich.
2018 / SOPHOMORE
  • Academic All-Big Ten
  • Started all 18 games
  • Totaled 1,547 minutes on the pitch (fourth-most on the team)
  • Became the program leader with three penalty kicks made in a single season (three)
  • Tied for No. 1 in Purdue history with three penalty kick attempts in a single season Led the team with six assists
  • Tallied 22 shots on the year, good for fourth-most on the team
  • Landed 46 percent of her shots on-frame
  • Secured the Golden Boot for Purdue with a double-overtime penalty kick goal vs. Indiana (1-0, Sept. 29) in the 105th minute.
  • Recorded three points vs Iowa State (8/26) with a goal and an assist
  • Averaged 0.33 assists per game, good for sixth in the Big Ten
  • Tied for eighth in the Big Ten in assists
  • Produced points in eight outings, including a game-high three points vs. Iowa State (8/26)
  • Went the distance in eight games.
  • Ranked second on the team with 12 points
  • Ranked second on the team with three goals
2017 / FRESHMAN
Big Ten All-Freshman Team
• Started 18 out of the 19 games, missing only the Dayton win due to injury
• Went the distance in 14 of the 19 games, ranking fifth on the team in minutes played (1,643)
• Averaged 87 minutes per game while logging more than 90 minutes in all three overtime games
• Led the way defensively in six of the seven shutout wins, the program's most since 2007
• Handled Purdue’s corner kicks and free kicks for much of the season, serving in 69 corners
• Joined Katie Luce as the Boilermakers’ first Big Ten All-Freshman Team selections since 2009; Purdue’s first defender named to the all-freshman team since 2007


BEFORE PURDUE
· Played club soccer year round for the Michigan Hawks
· Starting defender for the Michigan Hawks' consecutive ECNL national championship teams in 2016 and 2017
· Michigan Hawks also won five straight conference titles from 2013 to 2017
· Four-year honor roll student at Mercy High School in suburban Detroit
· Graduated high school magna cum laude
· National Honor Society as an upperclassman
· Also in Spanish National Honor Society as a sophomore and junior

PERSONAL
· Major: Kinesiology
· Full name is Sarah Grace Clark
· Born in Durham, North Carolina
· Parents are Bill and Lori Clark, both Purdue alumni
· Family also includes older siblings Katy, Will and Madi
· Will played soccer at UNC Wilmington and Madi was on the equestrian team at the University of Georgia
· Her uncle Skip Clark, aunt Kathleen Wilson and cousin Robby Pevonka are also Purdue alumni

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Sophomore
2018-19

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Freshman
2017

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