Personal information | |||
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Full name | Savannah Lee Levin | ||
Date of birth | (1995-05-21) May 21, 1995 (age 29). | ||
Place of birth | Newport Coast, California, U.S. | ||
Height | 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m) | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
College career | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2013–2016 | USC Trojans | 86 | (4) |
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2017 | Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC | 11 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of July 3, 2017 |
Savannah Lee Levin (born May 21, 1995) is an American soccer player who played as a defender for Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC in the Swedish Damallsvenskan. She played for the USC Trojans women's soccer team from 2013 to 2016, winning the 2016 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament.
Early life
Levin's parents are Desmond and Diane Levin. She has a brother, Jay, and an older sister, Camille Levin, who played soccer for the Stanford Cardinal women's soccer team and professionally. She grew up in Newport Coast, California.
Soccer career
In 2012, Levin played for Cal South's team that won the Olympic Development Program national championships in Frisco, Texas.
In high school Levin was named league MVP in soccer all four years at Tarbut V' Torah (class of 2013) in Irvine, California, where she was a four-time first team all-league selection.
Levin played on the USA Women's Soccer Team at the 2013 Maccabiah Games in Israel.
Levin played at the University of Southern California (USC) from 2013 to 2016, where she was part of the USC Trojans women's soccer team that won the 2016 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament. As a sophomore in 2014 and as a junior in 2015 she earned Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention. In 2016 she was named All Pac-12 First Team. She majored in psychology.
Levin declared for the 2017 NWSL College Draft but was not selected, in February 2017 she signed with Swedish team Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC to play in the Damallsvenskan, for whom she played as a midfielder in 2017.
In 2018 she was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
Honors
USC Trojans
References
- "The Dean's List: USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences" (PDF). University of Southern California. 2015. p. 8. Retrieved July 15, 2021.
- ^ "13 SAVANNAH LEVIN". USC Trojans. Pac-12. Retrieved July 3, 2017.
- "TVT Alums Shine as Athletes in College and Beyond". Tarbut V'Torah Community Day School. December 15, 2017.
- ^ "Savannah Levin - Women's Soccer". USC Athletics.
- ^ "SAVANNAH LEVIN; Soccer - 2018". Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
- Scott French (March 13, 2012). "YOUTH: Cal South girls win ODP titles". ESPN.
- "Savannah Levin's High School Timeline". MaxPreps.com.
- "Richman Named to U.S. Maccabiah Games Team". Temple University Athletics. April 4, 2013.
- "News; SAVANNAH LEVIN – 2013 Maccabiah," Spring 2017.
- "NATIONAL CHAMPS NO. 7 TROJANS DEFEAT NO. 1 WEST VIRGINIA 3-1 TO EARN PROGRAM'S SECOND TITLE". December 4, 2016. Retrieved July 9, 2018.
- "USC women's soccer beats West Virginia to win College Cup". Los Angeles Daily News. December 4, 2016.
- "2016 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WOMEN’S SOCCER; All Pac-12 Honors," University of Southern California 2016 Women’s Soccer.
- "2017 NWSL COLLEGE DRAFT LIST OF ELIGIBLE PLAYERS". Our Game Magazine. January 10, 2017. Retrieved July 9, 2018.
- "Välkommen till KGFC, Savannah Levin!". Kopparbergs Göteborg FC (in Swedish). Retrieved July 3, 2017.
- "Savannah Levin - Soccer player profile & career statistics". globalsportsarchive.com.
- "USA - S. Levin - Profile with news, career statistics and history". Soccerway.
- Graham Hays (August 28, 2018). "For Christen Press, it's matter over mind". ESPN.
External links
- Savannah Levin at the Swedish Football Association (in Swedish)
- USC player profile
- Savannah Levin at Soccerway
- Savannah Levin on Instagram
- 1995 births
- Living people
- American women's soccer players
- Sportspeople from Newport Beach, California
- Soccer players from Orange County, California
- USC Trojans women's soccer players
- BK Häcken FF players
- Damallsvenskan players
- Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden
- American people of South African-Jewish descent
- Jewish American soccer players
- Women's association football defenders
- Competitors at the 2013 Maccabiah Games
- Maccabiah Games competitors for the United States
- 21st-century American Jews
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- Jews from California