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14 Írena Héðinsdóttir Gonzalez (she/her/hers)

  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Kópavogur, Iceland
  • High School Fjölbrautaskólinn í Garðabæ
  • Position M
  • Pronunciation Undeclared

Biography

Career Highs

Goals: 1 (vs. Cornell, 10/13/24)
Assists: 1 (2x, Last at Brown, 9/28/24)
Points: 2 (vs. Cornell, 10/13/24)

2024 • Sophomore

Ivy League All-Tournament Team … Played in 15 games, making 14 starts in 2024 … Scored a goal and dished out two assists to total four points … Logged 1,253 minutes on the pitch … Contributed to a stout Harvard defensive effort from the central defensive midfield … Started and played the full 90 minutes in the shutout win over Marshall to open the season (Aug. 26) … Started and played 78 minutes, firing off three shots in the scoreless draw at UMass (Aug. 29) … Came off the bench to play 41 minutes, contributing to the shutout win over Boston University (Sep. 5) … Started and helped the Crimson tie the No. 20 Pepperdine Waves, 1-1 (Sep. 8) … The team’s 441-minute scoreless streak was snapped but was still the second longest run to begin a season in program history … Logged 76 minutes on the pitch in the Crimson’s 4-2 win over Milwaukee (Sep. 12) … Played the full 90 minutes in the 1-1 draw at Northwestern (Sep. 15) … Tallied her first career point with an assist in the team’s 2-2 draw at No. 10 Santa Clara (Sep. 22) … Added another assist in the narrow loss at Brown (Sep. 28) … Started in the narrow loss against Columbia (Oct. 5) … Played the full 90 minutes in the draw against Dartmouth (Oct. 9) … Scored her first career goal in the shutout win over Cornell (Oct. 13) … Started in the matchup at Princeton (Oct. 19) … Played the full 90 in the crucial victory against Penn (Oct. 26) … Helped Harvard defeat Yale in the season finale (Nov. 2) to clinch a spot in the Ivy League Tournament … Started and played the full 90 minutes in the Ivy League Tournament semifinal against Princeton (Nov. 8).


2023 • First-Year

Played in all 19 games for the Crimson, making 13 starts … Played primarily in the central defensive midfield … Logged 1,383 minutes on the pitch … Was a key piece of a Harvard defensive unit that allowed the third-fewest shots on goal in the country … Made her collegiate debut against Fairfield in Harvard’s 3-0 season opening win (Aug. 25) … Came off the bench and played 62 minutes in the team’s 2-1 win over UConn (Aug. 27) … Played 45 minutes in the match at Long Beach State (Sep. 1) … Logged 55 minutes off the bench in the draw at Pepperdine (Sep. 3) … Played 72 minutes in the Crimson’s 5-2 win over Syracuse (Sep. 7) … Started and played 90 minutes against NC State (Sep. 10) helping the Crimson lockdown the Wolfpack offense and not allowing a single shot on goal … Played 79 minutes in the defensive midfield in the team’s 5-0 rout of Samford (Sep. 14) … Logged 72 minutes of playing time against St. John’s (Sep. 17) … Started and played the full 90 minutes against Brown (Sep. 23) … Started in the Crimson’s shutout win over Columbia (Sep. 30) … Held Dartmouth to zero shots on goal in a 3-0 shutout win (Oct. 4) … Started and played 84 minutes in the Crimson’s 3-1 win over Cornell (Oct.7) … Played the full 90 minutes in the 1-1 draw with Princeton (Oct. 14) … Appeared in the win over Penn (Oct. 21) … Started in the convincing win over Yale in the regular season finale (Oct. 28) … Played 81 minutes against Princeton in the Ivy League Tournament semifinal round (Nov. 3) … Started and played 80 minutes in the Ivy League Championship game and victory over Columbia … Helped Harvard win the inaugural Ivy League Tournament Championship and advance to the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive season … Started in the team’s win over Maine in the NCAA Tournament first round at Jordan Field … Made the start in the NCAA Tournament second round matchup against Michigan State (Nov. 16).
 

Before Harvard

Member of the Icelandic U19 National Team for two seasons beginning in 2022 … Has appeared in 12 games in international competition with the U19 club and has scored three goals in those games … Played club soccer with Breidablik women’s football team that plays in the Urvalsdeild Women’s League, the top league in Iceland … Was a part of the Breidablik team that finished as the runner-up for the Urvalsdeild title in 2021 … Helped her team win the Icelandic Women’s Football Cup in 2021 and finish as the runner-up in 2022 … Also was a part of the League Cup Women’s A Championship team in 2022 … Has appeared in 15 games for Breidablik over the past two seasons.

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Historical Player Information

  • 14

    2023First-Year

    Midfielder
    5'8"
    14
  • 14

    2024Sophomore

    Midfielder
    5'8"
    14
  • 14

    2025Junior

    Midfielder
    5'8"
    14