The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Soccer adds mid-term enrollees Allen & Brooks for 2018
01.17.2018 | Soccer
Local duo joins a UT roster that boasts 24 returning letter-winners from 2017’s NCAA Sweet 16 squad
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas head soccer coach Angela Kelly and the Longhorns soccer program announced on Wednesday the addition of two mid-term enrollees that will be eligible to play immediately during the upcoming 2018 campaign. Included (Position/Hometown/High School) are Carlee Allen (Midfielder/Austin, Texas/Lake Travis High School) and Cameron Brooks (Defender/Round Rock, Texas/Cedar Ridge High School).
"There is a ton of excitement around our Texas soccer program leading into this spring season," Kelly said. "The addition of Carlee Allen and Cameron Brooks just adds to the excitement. Both young ladies come into our program with wonderful soccer foundations as products of the prestigious Lonestar Soccer Club here in Austin. Carlee has a tremendous engine and is a workhorse in the midfield. We love, as a staff, that she battles all over the pitch and always wants the ball. Cameron has the versatility to play any position across the back line. She reads the game well, is great in the air and loves to get forward. The eagerness they both share to be the best and win is what excites us the most."
Carlee Allen
Position: Midfielder
Hometown: Austin, Texas
High School: Lake Travis H.S.
Club Team: Lonestar Soccer Club
A local Austin product, Allen played two seasons at Lake Travis High School (freshman and sophomore years) earning a pair of All-District 25-6A First Team accolades. She was also named the 2015-16 District 25-6A Offensive Player of the Year and the 2014-15 District 25-6A Newcomer of the Year while leading her squad in scoring both seasons. During her sophomore campaign, Allen tallied the match-winning goal to snap rival Westlake's five-year, 60-match district winning streak. Ranked No. 76 in Top Drawer Soccer's 2017 Girls IMG Academy Top 150 as well as the eighth-rated player overall in Texas, Allen served as a team captain for Lonestar SC from 2013-17. She was an id2 Camp (Portland, Ore.) and U.S. Soccer Market Center participant (2012-15), was named to the Top XI at the Top Drawer Soccer combines in Raleigh, N.C., in 2014 and was a Girls U.S. Development Academy standout (Oct. 2017). Internationally, Allen was the leading goal scorer in guiding her squad to the 2013 Gothia Cup title in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Cameron Brooks
Position: Defender
Hometown: Round Rock, Texas
High School: Cedar Ridge H.S.
Club Team: Lonestar Soccer Club
A three-year letter-winner for Cedar Ridge H.S. in Round Rock, Brooks was honored as a 2016-17 Region II-6A All-State Second Team selection, picked up a pair of nods to the District 13-6A All-District First Team (2016-17, 2015-16) and was named the 2016-17 District 13-6A Most Valuable Midfielder while totaling 27 career goals and 19 total assists. As a junior, she scored 16 goals and dished six assists while powering Cedar Ridge to its second Region II Bi-District title in three seasons. As a freshman starter at defender and forward, Brooks helped her interscholastic squad to a District 13-6A championship as well as Bi-District and area crowns. Ranked No. 58 in Top Drawer Soccer's 2017 Girls IMG Academy Top 150 as well as the third-ranked player overall in Texas, she owns valuable national team experience having received call-ups to the U.S. Soccer Under-16 National Team training camps in Portland, Ore. (May 2015) and Chula Vista, Calif. (April 2015) as well as the U.S. Soccer Under-14 National Team camp in Portland, Ore. (June 2014). She reaped id2 Camp experience in 2013 & 2014 and was named to Top Drawer Soccer's Best XI at the U.S. Club id2 Camp in Dec. 2013. With Lonestar SC, Brooks was a part of the ECNL Player Development Program (2016), helped her squad advance to the 2015 ECNL U-15 Top 32 Champions League Draw in Seattle, Wash., and to championships at the Austin Labor Day Classic Invitational in 2013 & 2014.