The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
2024 Soccer Roster
Roster
Lauren Lapomarda
- Position:
- D
- Height:
- 5-2
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- High School:
- Prosper
- Hometown:
- Prosper, Texas
- Major:
- Applied Movement Science
Career Accolades
- 3x Academic All-Big 12 (First Team: 2021, '23; Second Team: 2022)
- 1x United Soccer Coaches All-Region Fourth Team (1x - Southeast, 2024)
- 1x Top Drawer Soccer Top 100 National Player Midseason Rankings (No. 66, 2024)
- 1x Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week (9/17/24)
- 1x Big 12 All-Tournament Team (2023)
- 1x Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week (9/20/23)
2024, Graduate
United Soccer Coaches All-Southeast Fourth Team ... Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week (9/17/24) ... Top Drawer Soccer Midseason Top 100 (#66) ...
2023, Senior
Big 12 All-Tournament Team ... One-time Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week ... scored her first career goal in Texas' 7-0 win against SFA (9/7) ... netted a second goal on the season against Iowa State (10/8) just a month later ... was credited with an assist in both Longhorn matches against Texas Tech (9/21, 11/1) ... played all 90 minutes in 14 of 24 matches throughout the season ... of the 24 matches played in, earned the starting assignment on the defensive backline on 23 different occasions ... helped the UT defense set a program record six straight clean sheets ... was also on the pitch to help the Longhorn defense set a new record for the longest stretch of time without an opponent scoring at 597:38 (8/24 - 9/21) ...
2022, Junior
Started 21 matches and played 1,705 total minutes ... registered a pair of assists and was credited with three shots (two on frame) ... key part of a Texas backline that posted a shutout streak of 402:40 (Sept. 22-Oct. 13) and four straight shutouts ... was on the pitch for all 90 minutes of 14 matches, including six Big 12 Conference contests (at No. 12 TCU, versus Kansas State & Kansas, at Iowa State, at Oklahoma State and versus Oklahoma) ... delivered the pass that directly led to Jilly Shimkin’s opening goal at 10:52 of the 5-0 rout of UTRGV (9/11) ... managed single shots at West Virginia (10/13), at No. 12 TCU (9/22) and at Oregon (9/1) ... picked up a key assist on Emma Regan’s 25th minute score during the 3-2 victory over Florida (8/28).
2021, Sophomore
Was on the pitch in all 22 matches with 20 starts while playing 1,655 total minutes ... managed one assist while totaling four shots ... played a key role in the defensive backline as Texas set a then-program record with a shutout streak of 552:56 from Sept. 30-Oct. 24 ... earned over 100 minutes in action in matches against West Virginia (Big 12 Championship semifinals) and at Baylor ... played all 90 minutes in six other contests (at SMU, vs. TCU, vs. Oklahoma, at Kansas, Iowa State, at Oklahoma)... registered her first career assist on Lexi Missimo’s match-winning goal (42:00) during the 2-0 win over Iowa State (10/9) ... recorded two shots in the 2-1 double overtime victory over Samford (9/16) and single shots on goal at both Kansas (10/28) and Baylor (10/15) ...
2020-21, Freshman
Played in 11 matches (nine starts) during the COVID-19 split campaign for a total of 760 minutes with three total shots (all three on frame) ... registered a career-high two shots on goal during the 3-0 win at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (3/26) ... was on the pitch for all 90 minutes at Iowa State (10/16), at No. 12 Oklahoma State (10/23), vs. Baylor (10/30) and at Texas Tech (11/6) ... started her first collegiate match by playing 42 minutes in the season-opener against Kansas (911) ...
Club
With her club program Solar SC, Lapomarda was a part of ECNL Grand Champion Conference-Texas, U17 Conference Grand Champion and 2019 USSDA U17 National Championship teams and was named Dallas International Champion Frontier Conference Best XI ...
High School
Another highly-rated national recruit listed at No. 51 in the Top Drawer Soccer IMG Academy 150 rankings, No. 13 nationally as a defender as well as the No. 8 overall player in Texas, Lapomarda played for head coach Rafael Flores at Prosper H.S. … during her sophomore campaign in 2018, she was named a Top Drawer Soccer Winter All-State Star in Texas as well as District 14-5A Defensive Co-Most Valuable Player after leading her high school team to its first-ever 14-win district season in program history … back in 2017, she was selected as the District 14-5A Newcomer of the Year while helping Prosper to a 26-1-1 record and the 5A Region II final ... was a National Honor Society member at Prosper H.S.
Personal
Parents are Larry Lapomarda and Adriana Lazo … has one sibling, Katie, who played soccer at the University of San Diego (2017-20) … has Italian dual citizenship ...
