The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
2015 Soccer Roster
Roster
Phoenetia Browne
- Position:
- F
- Height:
- 5-8
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- High School:
- Rutgers Prep
- Prev School:
- Columbia
- Hometown:
- Piscataway, N.J.
GRADUATE STUDENT (2015)
Played in nine matches in 2015 with two starts for a total of 137 minutes … Reaped six minutes of time off the bench in her final match on the Forty Acres during the 2-1 Big 12 Championship quarterfinal loss to Kansas (Nov. 4) ... Started and earned 11 minutes of playing time on “Senior Night” as Texas routed Montana (Oct. 30), 3-0 ... In the 1-1 (2OT) tie with Oregon State (Sept. 10), Browne played 14 minutes off the bench … Made her first career start and played 18 total minutes in the 2-0 loss at UCSB (Sept. 4) and drew 37 high-quality minutes off the bench in the 2-1 road upset of No. 14 UCLA (Sept. 6) … Set up one of Texas’ best offensive chances in the second half of the 0-0 (2OT) tie against #18 Ohio State (Aug. 30) with a pass inside the 18 to Flores and fired the first two shots of her Longhorns career … Earned the first minute of playing time of her Texas career over the final tick of the clock during the 2-0 loss to No. 5 North Carolina (Aug. 28).
AT COLUMBIA
Played in 29 total matches with eight starts over her four seasons at Columbia ... Was limited to just six matches as a senior (2014) because of an ACL injury ... In a career-best 16 matches during her junior campaign in 2013, Browne scored four goals and dished an assist for all nine of her career total points ... Scored goals in back-to-back contests against Dartmouth (Oct. 26, 2013) and Yale (Nov. 2, 2013) ... Hit thr back of the net against NJIT on Oct. 8, 2013, on the way to a 2-0 victory ... Tallied her first career goal against UNF on Sept. 15, 2013 ... Registered her only career assist on Columbia’s first score of the season in a 3-2 (2OT) win over Manhattan (Sept. 6, 2013) ... Played 117 minutes over seven matches as a sophomore (2012) ... Did not see action as a freshman because of an ACL injury (2011).
CLUB/NATIONAL
Has been part of the St. Kitts and Nevis Senior/U-20 Women’s National Team (vice captain) since August of 2009 ... Participated in Olympic & FIFA Wold Cup qualifying matches in Suriname, Trinidad, Puerto Rico, the British Virgin Islands, Jamaica and Turks & Caicos ... Played club soccer for head coach Randy Velasco and FC Copa ... Was named the 2009 US Futsol Northeast/Mid-Atlantic Region Championship MVP - U-15 ... Was part of the New Jersey ODP Team in 2011.
HIGH SCHOOL
Played four sports (soccer, basketball, lacrosse and softball at Rutgers Prep ... Picked up New Jersey Girls Soccer Association All-State in 2009 & 2010 and was Star Ledger All-State All-Prep Second Team in 2010... Was tabbed All-Prep B First Team (2009) and all-area in 2010 after scoring 14 goals and dishing four assists ... Was team captain her senior season.
PERSONAL
Born on April 22, 1994, to Dave and Andrea Browne ... Has four siblings, Daveda (26), Andrae (24), Ezer (17) and Angelena (11) ... Graduate school major is Civil Engineering (construction management) ... Comes from an athletic family as her father Dave played soccer at Hunter College (1986-87), her mother Andrea was a track and netball athlete at the University of the West Indies (1983-85) and played netball and cricket internationally for St. Kitts and Nevis, while her brother Andrae boxed at the University of North Carolina (2010-12) ... Lists scoring six goals in the first round of FIFA World Cup qualifiers in Turks & Caicos as her most memorable moment in sports to this point ... Browne moved to the U.S. from St. Kitts and Nevis at the age of seven ... Claims to be afraid of heights yet completed her senior project at Columbia (a bridge) and plans to work on tall structures in the future.
