Liz Brechtel

Position:
Forward
Height:
5-7
Class:
Senior
High School:
Plainfield Central
Hometown:
Joliet, Ill.

CAREER HIGHS

Shots: 4 (2x, Most Recent: 11/02/19 vs. California Baptist)
Shots on Goal: 4 (11/02/19 vs. California Baptist)
Goals: 3 (11/02/19 vs. California Baptist)
Points: 6 (11/02/19 vs. California Baptist)
Minutes: 90 (3x, Most Recent: 10/13/21 at Evansville)

2021 SEASON

Started 13 matches, saw action in 15 matches ... led team with 17 shots on season ... shot three times against Missouri State (9/17) and Indiana State (10/28) ... earned two shots-on-goal against Bellarmine (9/12), Evansville (10/13), and Indiana State (10/28) ... averaged 1.13 shots per game ... notched a .412 shot-on-goal percentage ... tallied 1007 minutes on the season.

2020-21 SEASON

Did not compete.

2019 SEASON

Played and started in 16 games as a freshman ... finished the season with five goals and 23 shots (12 on goal) ... made her collegiate debut with 46 minutes of action against Illinois Springfield on Aug. 23 ... posted a game-winner with her first career goal in a 1-0 victory over Belmont on Aug. 30 ... scored the team's lone goal against Texas Rio Grande Valley on Sept. 29 ... tallied the program's first-ever hat trick with three goals scored in the season finale against California Baptist on Nov. 2.

HIGH SCHOOL & CLUB

Played for Eclipse Select club team ... team was a 14U and 15U Elite ECNL State Cup finalist and Palatine Cup champions ... 15U team was ECNL Champions League playoff qualifier ... co-captained her US Youth Soccer Midwest Regional League Premier II team in 2016 and 2017 ... her Eclipse Elite ECNL team was the DA Mid-America Conference champions in 2017, 2018.

PERSONAL

Daughter of Jeffrey and Amanda Brechtel ... born on November, 25, 2000 ... father is an inventory control manager and mother is a clinical laboratory scientist... born in Winfield, Ill. ... earned High Honor Roll (2015-2017) and Honor Roll (2018) in high school ... participated in Wildcat Care Club and Art Club ... is an artist and photographer.

WHY I CHOSE SIU

“I fell in love with the atmosphere of SIU the minute I stepped on campus. I have been able to meet so many kind and caring people that help make the college feel like it isn’t very far from home.”