Christiana Ogunsami - Soccer - Vanderbilt University Athletics

#32 Christiana Ogunsami Season 2014-15

Goalkeeper

Class Freshman
Hometown Cherry Hill, N.J.
High School Cherry Hill West
Bio

2015: Played in 21 games and made 20 starts in goal… Logged a career-high 1,889 minutes, missing just two halves all season… Among league leaders in several statistical categories… Second in SEC in saves (95), saves per game (4.52) and save percentage (.812)… Tied for fifth with six shutouts… Eighth in goals against average (1.05)… Named SEC Co-Defensive Player of the Week after making 10 total saves against No. 20 Kentucky and Arkansas… Was in goal as Vanderbilt went 401 minutes, including three shutouts, without allowing a goal for the program’s longest scoreless streak in 10 years… Made season-high nine saves in final game of season, 2-1 loss to No. 5 Florida… Had eight saves, including two game-saving stops in overtime, in tie against No. 20 Kentucky… Helped Commodores allow just 23 goals, which tied for fifth fewest in the SEC, and lowest amount for program since 2006.

2014: Started all 19 games as a freshman… Played 1,708-plus minutes, only coming out for second half against Chattanooga… Posted five shutouts, and contributed to a sixth against Chattanooga with fellow goalkeeper Shannon Morrish… Finished season with an SEC-high 113 saves, which is the second-most in one season in program history… Tied school record with 15 saves against Texas A&M.

HIGH SCHOOL/CLUB: A first-team all-conference selection the past three seasons and first-team All South Jersey regional selection the last two years… Made an impressive 137 saves during her senior season at Cherry Hill West High School… On the club circuit, she helped Continental FC Delco win the Eastern Pennsylvania Youth Soccer Association state cup championship and the Bethesda tournament championship… Also started on the basketball team and was a thrower for the track and field team. She also plays the cello and plans to study neuroscience at Vanderbilt to eventually become an orthopedic surgeon.

PERSONAL: Doyinsola Temitope Ogunsami… Prefers to be called Christiana… Nickname: Ludacris… Born Jan. 11, 1996 in Newark, N.J. … Daughter of Ayodele and Oyinlola Ogunsami… Father, Ayodele, is an engineer, and mother, Oyinlola, is an accountant… Her father played soccer at the University of Lagos in Nigeria… Has two younger brothers, Ayotunde (17) and Dolapo (18)… Undeclared on major… Plays the cello and wants to become an orthopedic surgeon… Along with fellow goalkeeper Shannon Morrish, one of 13 VU student-athletes to travel to Costa Rica and deliver shoes to children in need with Soles4Souls in December 2014.

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