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Gatorade 2025 - 2026: Player of the Year

Girls Soccer - Rhode Island

Gatorade Player of the year

Alexa Barajas

Forward
NORTH KINGSTOWN HS
NORTH KINGSTOWN, RHODE ISLAND
SOPHOMORE
Height: 5-FOOT-9
Press Release

Peak Performance

33

Goals

11

Assists
“Alexa has all the skills to be dominant in games. Her feet are so fast, and her footwork makes it extremely difficult to keep up with her. When a team has a striker as talented as that, the player really stands out.”
John Hoxsie
Head Coach - Cumberland High

Athletic Excellence

The 5-foot-9 sophomore forward scored 33 goals and passed for 11 assists this past season, leading the Skippers (17-2) to the Division I state championship game. Barajas scored at least one goal in 16 of North Kingstown’s 17 games. She also missed two games early in the season while attending a training camp with the U.S. Soccer Under-15 Girls National Team. A United Soccer Coaches All-American selection, she’s ranked as the nation’s No. 77 recruit in her class by TopDrawerSoccer.

Academic Achievement

Barajas has maintained a weighted 3.51 GPA in the classroom. She will begin her junior year of high school this fall.

Exemplary Character

Barajas is a member of her school’s Youth Driven program, a traffic safety and leadership initiative. She has volunteered locally working helping elementary school students with intellectual challenges and as a youth soccer coach.