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Kristina Lynch

Midfielder/Forward
PENN HS
MISHAWAKA, INDIANA
JUNIOR
Height: 5-FOOT-8
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Peak Performance

86

Goals

49

Assists
“Kristina is not only a good individual player, she also has that rare talent of making everyone around her better. As a coach, that is one of my measures of greatness. That is what Kristina did for Penn.”
Tim Barwick
Head Coach at Mishawaka High
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Athletic Excellence

The 5-foot-8 junior midfielder and forward led the Kingsmen to a 22-0-1 record and the Class 2A state championship this past season. Lynch scored 38 goals and passed for 26 assists, tallying one of each in Penn's 2-0 win over Brebeuf Jesuit High in the state final. Lynch recorded 12 goals and 13 assists in Penn's seven-game postseason run to the state title. A two-time Indiana Soccer Coaches Association First Team All-State selection, she concluded her junior year with school records of 86 goals and 49 assists in her prep soccer career.

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Academic Achievement

Lynch has maintained a weighted 4.11 GPA in the classroom. She has made a verbal commitment to play soccer on scholarship at Florida State University beginning in the fall of 2018.

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Exemplary Character

A member of the Penn High student council, Lynch has volunteered locally at a center for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and as a youth soccer coach. She has also donated her time writing letters of encouragement to hospital patients. "Kristina is not only a good individual player, she also has that rare talent of making everyone around her better," said Tim Barwick, head coach of Mishawaka High. "As a coach, that is one of my measures of greatness. That is what Kristina did for Penn."