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2023 Women's Soccer

11 Ava Lung (she/her/hers)

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Westwood, Mass.
  • High School Noble and Greenough
  • Position M/F
  • Concentration Government
  • House Affiliation Winthrop

Biography

Career Highs

Goals: 1 (7x, last at Columbia, 9/30/23)
Assists: 2 (vs. Syracuse, 9/7/23)
Points: 4 (vs. Syracuse, 9/7/23)

2023 • Fifth-Year

Named a team captain for the 2023 season … Academic All-Ivy ... CSC Academic All-District ... Started in all 19 games for the Crimson this season ... Finished the year with 11 points, scoring three goals and notching five assists ... Finished second on the team with three games of three or more points ... Got the start in the team’s season opener at Fairfield (Aug. 25) and played 49 minutes while firing off three shots … Registered the primary assist on the game-tying goal in the team’s eventual 2-1 win over UConn (Aug. 27) … Started and played 54 minutes against Long Beach State (Sep. 1) … Started and logged 62 minutes on the pitch in the draw at Pepperdine (Sep. 3) … Recorded a career-best four points with a goal and two assists in the Crimson’s 5-2 win over Syracuse (Sep. 7) … Started and played 51 minutes in the Crimson’s dominant 2-0 win over NC State (Sep. 10) … Led the team with a goal and an assist in the rout of Samford (Sep. 14) … Started and played 43 minutes on the pitch against St. John’s (Sep. 17) … Started and played 70 minutes at forward against Brown (Sep. 23) … Scored a goal and added an assist in the shutout win over Columbia (Sep. 30) ... Got the start in the shutout win over Dartmouth (Oct. 4) ... Started in the win at Cornell (Oct. 7) ... Played 65 minutes in the draw with Princeton (Oct. 14) ... Started in the wins over Penn (Oct. 21) and Yale (Oct. 28) ... Started in both Ivy League Tournament matches against Princeton (Nov. 3) and Columbia (Nov. 5) ... Helped Harvard capture the first-ever Ivy League Tournament Championship to secure an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament ... Started and played 56 minutes, putting one shot on goal, in the NCAA Tournament first-round win over Maine (Nov. 11) ... Started in the second round battle with Michigan State (Nov. 16). 

2022 • Senior

Named a team captain for the 2022 season … Played in 16 games, making three starts ... Saw 51 minutes of action on the pitch in the season opener against Central Connecticut State (Aug. 26) … Saw time against Northeastern (Aug. 29) and UNC Greensboro (Sep. 2) … Logged time on the field in the wins against NC State (Sep. 4) and Long Beach State (Sep. 8) … Recorded her first point of the season with an assist against UMass (Sep. 11) … Played 13 minutes in the team’s 2-2 tie at TCU (Sep. 17) … Played 14 minutes on the frontline against Penn (Sep. 24) … Scored her first goal of the season in the shutout win over Yale (Oct. 1) … Started at forward in the narrow loss to BU (Oct. 4) … Played 64 minutes off the bench in the 5-1 win over Cornell (Oct. 8) … Appeared in the team’s 1-1 draw at Brown (Oct. 15) … Took a shot in the win over Dartmouth (Oct. 29) … Scored a goal on senior night to help Harvard defeat Columbia, 5-0, in the season finale (Nov. 5) ... Helped the team earn its second straight bid to the NCAA Tournament and receive an NCAA Tournament home game for the first time since 2014 ... Appeared in the team's NCAA Tournament First Round win over the New Hampshire Wildcats (Nov. 12), helping Harvard advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2014 ... Played in the team's narrow loss to No. 13 South Carolina in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. 

2021 • Junior

Played in 14 games with one start … Posted seven points on two goals and three assists on the season, ranking fifth on the team in points and assists … Tallied 15 shots and 10 shots on goal on the year … Registered a season-high three points on a goal and an assist vs. Kansas (Sept. 19) … Scored a goal at Cornell (Oct. 9) … Distributed one assist each vs. Boston College (Sept. 9) and at Monmouth (Sept. 12).
 

Sophomore • 2020

Season canceled due to COVID-19.
 

First-year • 2019

Appeared in one game (vs. Northeastern, Aug. 30) before missing remainder of season due to injury.
 

Before Harvard

Reached 2018 Northeast League Championship with FC Stars, advanced to ECNL national quarterfinals … 2017 Northeast League Champions with FC Stars, national finalist … Three-time All-ISL selection with Noble and Greenough … Nobles crowned 2018 ISL and NEPSAC Class A Champions … 2016 ISL Champion with Nobles … Academic High Distinction.

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Historical Player Information

  • 13

    2019First-Year

    M/F
    13
  • 13

    2020Sophomore

    M/F
    13
  • 13

    2021Junior

    M/F
    5'10"
    13
  • 11

    2022Senior

    Midfielder/Forward
    5'10"
    11
  • 11

    2023Senior

    Midfielder/Forward
    5'10"
    11