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Carlie Thurmond

Forward
BETHLEHEM HS
BARDSTOWN, KENTUCKY
SENIOR
Height: 5-FOOT-7
Press Release

Peak Performance

33

Goals (Season)

20

Assists (Season)

150

Goals (Career)
“Carlie is something else. So athletic, so dangerous—she scored on us and we didn’t give her much to look at. She got one opportunity and buried it.”
Ken Burke
Head Coach - head coach of South Oldham High
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Athletic Excellence

The 5-foot-7 senior forward led the Banshees to a 22-4-2 record and the state championship this past season. Thurmond scored 33 goals and passed for 20 assists, netting two scores in Bethlehem’s 4-3 win over Sacred Heart Academy in the state final to earn tournament MVP honors. A three-time First Team All-State selection, she compiled nine goals and seven assists in the team’s eight-game postseason run to the title and she concluded her prep soccer career with a school-record 150 goals.

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Academic Achievement

Thurmond has maintained a 3.98 GPA in the classroom. She has signed a National letter of intent to play soccer on scholarship at Morehead State University this fall.

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Exemplary Character

Thurmond has volunteered locally with Handy Hands, a program that benefits the elderly, and as a youth soccer referee. She has also donated her time supporting Christmas train rides at the Kentucky Railway Museum.