Savannah Levin | |
Fullname: | Savannah Lee Levin[1] |
Birth Date: | 21 May 1995.[2] |
Birth Place: | Newport Coast, California, U.S. |
Position: | Defender |
Collegeyears1: | 2013–2016 |
Collegecaps1: | 86 |
Collegegoals1: | 4 |
Years1: | 2017 |
Clubs1: | Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC |
Caps1: | 11 |
Goals1: | 0 |
Pcupdate: | 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.
Levin's parents are Desmond and Diane Levin.[3] She has a brother, Jay, and an older sister, Camille Levin, who played soccer for the Stanford Cardinal women's soccer team and professionally.[4] [5] She grew up in Newport Coast, California.[5]
In 2012, Levin played for Cal South's team that won the Olympic Development Program national championships in Frisco, Texas.[6]
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.[4] [7]
Levin played on the USA Women's Soccer Team at the 2013 Maccabiah Games in Israel.[8] [9]
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.[10] [11] As a sophomore in 2014 and as a junior in 2015 she earned Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.[4] In 2016 she was named All Pac-12 First Team.[12] She majored in psychology.[4]
Levin declared for the 2017 NWSL College Draft but was not selected,[13] 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.[14] [15] [16] [17]
In 2018 she was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.[5]
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