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Charlotte Anderson |
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CLUB HIGHLIGHTS: Multi-year team captain for southern California powerhouse Wolfpack SC under head coach Glenn Strachan ... helped team to CalSouth National Cup quarterfinals in 2011 and round of 16 in 2012 ... led team defense throughout fall run to third place in Coast Soccer League's top division (Premier U17) in 2011 ... team also was finalist in 2012 Las Vegas Players Showcase U17 bracket ... spent time as center back with ECNL Irvine Strikers (Irvine, Calif.) in 2010, with team finishing as a finalist in their U16 bracket during the ECNL Final Four Showcase in Raleigh, N.C. (not far from WakeMed Soccer Park, where Notre Dame won the NCAA title that season).
PREP & PERSONAL: from Mayfield Senior School in Pasadena, Calif., at the top of her class with a 4.6 weighted GPA ... team captain in 2011 under head coach Louis Hunt ... three-time all Prep-League from 2010-12 ... team's Defensive Player of the Year in 2010 ... paced Cubs to California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Division III playoffs in 2010 and 2011 ... also lettered in cross country and badminton while at Mayfield ... in 2009, set junior varsity course record at Prep League Cross Country Championships with three-mile time of 20:36 ... in 2009, was part of league-champion 4x400-meter relay team... first National Merit Finalist and Glynn Family Scholar from her school to suit up for the Fighting Irish ... also named an AP Scholar ... four-year member of the National Honor Society, serving as Mayfield's chapter vice-president in 2011-12 ... co-editor-in-chief of the Mayfield student newspaper in 2011-12 ... awarded Mayfield's top incoming student academic scholarship, the Holy Child Scholarship ... awarded Valerie Norton Nora Scholarship as Mayfield's top senior in 2011-12 ... named state finalist in the Wendy's 2012 High School Heisman competition ... enjoys playing the piano ... has climbed Half Dome in Yosemite National Park ... six-year National Charity League member, volunteering at the Pasadena Museum of History and Villa Esperanza, a local service provider for children with disabilities ... was accepted to nine colleges, eventually choosing Notre Dame over two Ivy League institutions ... full name is Charlotte Rose Anderson ... daughter of Elizabeth and Paul Anderson ... Paul is a 1986 graduate of Notre Dame and was a member of the tennis team in 1982-83 ... older brother, Henry, will be a sophomore at Dartmouth College this fall, and is a former Valedictorian at Loyola High School in Los Angeles ... one of six California residents on 2012 Fighting Irish roster, along with senior Maddie Fox (San Jose), sophomore Lauren Bohaboy (Mission Viejo) and classmates Anna Maria Gilbertson (Davis), Riley McCurrie (Irvine) and Naomi Willett (San Clemente) ... enrolled in Notre Dame's unique First Year of Studies program.
