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Gatorade 2022 - 2023: Player of the Year

Girls Soccer - North Carolina

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GIRLS SOCCER

Taylor Suarez

Forward
ARDREY KELL HS
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
JUNIOR
Height: 5-FOOT-5
Press Release

Peak Performance

36

Goals

33

Assists

73

Career Goals

59

Career Assists
“She is one of the two best female field players I have come across in my 20-plus years coaching. She has tremendous pace, but it’s her soccer IQ and technical skill that make her an absolutely amazing player. She is ruthless in the final (offensive) third.”
Bucky McCarley
Head Coach - head coach of Myers Park High
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Athletic Excellence

The state’s returning Gatorade Player of the Year, the 5-foot-5 junior forward led the Knights to a 25-3-1 record and the Class 4A state championship this past season. Suarez scored 36 goals and passed for 33 assists, and netted a goal and two assists in Ardrey Kell’s 3-2 win over Ashley High in the state title game. The 2023 North Carolina Soccer Coaches Association’s Player of the Year, she concluded her junior year with 73 goals and 59 assists in her prep soccer career.

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Academic Achievement

Suarez has maintained a weighted 3.83 GPA in the classroom. She has made a verbal commitment to play soccer on scholarship at Florida State University beginning in the fall of 2024.

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Exemplary Character

A member of her school’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter, Suarez has volunteered locally as a youth soccer referee.