2024 USC Women's Soccer Roster
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Jackson, Simone
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Jersey Number 80
Simone Jackson
- Position:
- Forward
- Height:
- 5-4
- Weight:
- null
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Redondo Beach, Calif.
Bio
SENIOR/2024:
SOPHOMORE/2022
FRESHMAN/2021
NATIONAL TEAM
- Played in 22 matches, and made 17 starts in 2024
- Played a career high 1,304 minutes for the Trojans
- Named to the All-Big Ten third team and was an Academic All-District honoree
- Her 6 goals was 2nd most on the team
- Scored a goal in 4 of the Trojans last 5 matches including 3 goals in the NCAA Tournament
- Recorded 8 shots in the Trojans NCAA Tournament 2nd round victory against Saint Louis (11/22)
- Scored a game winning goal against Ohio State scoring in the 83rd minute (10/17)
- Appeared in 15 games and made 10 starts as a junior in 2023
- Named to the All-Pac-12 second team
- Was 5th on the team with 10 total points (5 goals)
- Her 5 goals were 2nd on the team
- Put 20 of her 39 shots on target for the 2nd best shot accuracy (.513) in the Pac-12
- Posted 2 game-winning goals on the season vs. Michigan (8/17) and Oregon State (10/8)
- Had a 2 goal game against Oregon (10/5)
- Named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
SOPHOMORE/2022
- Started all 16 games she appeared in as a sophomore, missing only the two opening games of the season after competing at the U20 World Cup with the U.S. Youth National Team
- Named to the All-Pacific Region first team and All-Pac-12 first team
- Finished the season second on the team with 15 total points (6 goals, 3 assists)
- Her 0.40 goals per game were 12th in the conference and her 1.00 points per game were 13th
- Recorded a goal and an assist on three separate occasions; at CSUN (9/8), at Oregon State (9/29), vs. Washington State (10/30)
- Named the Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week on 9/12 after a goal and assist against CSUN and an equalizing goal against Nebraska
- Earned Academic All-District honors and was named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
FRESHMAN/2021
- Appeared in all 20 games as a freshman for the Trojans, starting 8 contests
- Earned a spot on the All-Pac-12 second team and Pac-12 All-Freshman Team
- Scored 5 goals and notched 8 assists to finish 3rd on the team with 18 total points
- 8 assists were 2nd most on the team and 5th most in the Pac-12
- Had a season-high 3 points (1 goal, 1 assist) twice: vs. No. 9 Stanford (10/31) and vs. Penn State (11/19, NCAA 2nd round)
- Posted 2 assists against Utah
- Played 873 total minutes, taking 41 shots and putting 14 on target
NATIONAL TEAM
- Has been in the U.S. Youth National Team system since her U-14 days in 2016 and has been invited to numerous training camps at every level
- Played in several international tournaments and friendlies at the U-15 and U-17 levels, recently scoring twice for the U.S. U-17 squad at the 2019 International Friendly Tournament in Sweden
- Scored twice against Germany on her first international trip with the U.S. Youth National Team
- Was set to help lead the U-17 team to the 2021 World Cup before it was canceled
- Played four years at Bishop Montgomery, earning All-American status in 2018 and 2020
- Named to All-League first team as a sophomore
- Named the 2019 Bishop Montgomery Offensive MVP
- Also ran track and played tennis in high school
- Most recently played her club soccer for LAFC Slammers (scoring 20 goals in just eight her last season
- Earned West Conference Best XI recognition
- She comes in as the No. 3 rated player in the 2021 recruiting class according to Top Drawer Soccer
- Earned the George Montgomery Scholar Award with better than a 4.5 GPA and was on the Principal’s Honor Roll all four years of high school
- Earned the Bishop Montgomery Chemistry Department Award in 2019
- Mother is Ann-Frances McLyn, father is John Jackson Jr., brothers are John Jackson III and Jaden Jackson
- Grandfather, John Jackson Sr., was USC football’s running backs coach and offensive coordinator from 1976-81
- Father, John Jackson Jr., starred in football and baseball at USC from 1986-89 before going on to play in the NFL and Minor League Baseball
- Brother, John Jackson III, is currently a WR on the USC football team
- Plans to major in business and cinematic arts with hopes to one day be a CEO, director and producer
- Hopes to one day compete for the USWNT
- Participated in the 2020 Los Angeles County Mock Trial program, earning the Most Valuable Participant award
- Was the co-founder and co-president of the Black Student Union at Bishop Montgomery
- Would most like to visit Greece one day
- Favorites: Molten Chocolate Cake (food), Twilight series (movies), Insecure (TV show), Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (book)
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