2024 Women's Soccer Roster
Tess O'Connell
- Position:
- Midfielder
- Height:
- 5-11
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Pingree School
- Hometown:
- Wilmington, Mass.
- Prev School:
- Rhode Island
Honors and Awards:
2024-25
BIG EAST All-Academic Team
2024 (Sr.): Only player to start all 20 matches … Led team in goals (6) and points (14) … Scored two goals in 5-0 win over St. Thomas (9/19/24), second match in three outings with multiple scores … Netted pair of goals in 4-0 win over Mercyhurst (9/12/24) after scoring one total in first 73 career appearances … Collected first point at MU, assisting on Josie Bieda’s goal against Minnesota (9/1/24).
Rhode Island (2020-24): Four-year letterwinner at Rhode Island … Appeared in 66 career matches, earning 61 starting assignments … Served as team captain in 2024 … Netted first-career goal against Le Moyne (9/3/23) and collected first point as a junior against George Mason (10/16/22) … Named participant in the New England Women’s Intercollegiate Soccer Association Senior Bowl.
High School: Attended Wilmington High School before finishing her junior and senior year at Pingree School … As a senior captain at Pingree, was named 2019 EIL Player of the Year, MVP, All-New England, All-State, All-NEPSAC, Salem News All-Star, and was named to both the Herald All-Scholastic Team and Boston Globe All-Scholastic Team … Scored nine goals and had six assists senior season and had eight goals and recorded three assists junior year … Member of the NEFC Elite U18 club team for four years and was captain for three straight years … Named EIL All-Star in 2018 … State Champion with NEFC Elite for three straight seasons (2017, 2018, 2019) … Won the National Cup in 2017 and 2019.
Personal: Born March 10 in Wilmington, Mass. … Daughter of Tim and Kristina O’Connell … Has two sisters, Callie and Elly … Earned bachelor’s in nursing from Rhode Island in 2024 … Enrolled in leadership certificate master’s program at MU.
