Cari Roccaro

Education

Cari attended East Islip High School in Islip Terrace, New York where she played for the Redmen.

Career

She previously played for the New York Fury in the WPSL Elite. During her senior year, she scored 11 goals with an 11-3-1 record. Roccaro led the Redmen as team captain as a sophomore, junior, and senior.

She was named All-League, All-Conference, and All-County as a freshman, junior, and senior and Team Most Valuable Player as a freshman and senior.

A highly decorated player, she was named NSCAA All-American as a junior and senior and Parade All-American as a junior. University of Notre Dame

Roccaro currently attends the University of Notre Dame where she plays defender for the Fighting Irish.

In January 2013, she was named Soccer America"s Women"s Freshman of the Year after leading Notre Dame to the quarterfinals of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Tournament. Club

= New York Fury While still in high school, Roccaro played for Long Island Fury in Women"s Premier Soccer League, the second tier of women"s soccer in the United States.

She joined the club New York Fury, in the new WPSL Elite which was created after the folding of Women"s Professional Soccer in early 2012.

International

In March 2010, she scored her first international goal in a qualifier match against Haiti during the 2010 Fédération internationale de football association U-17 Women"s World Cup. She also played and scored goals for the United States during the 2010 CONCACAF Under-17 Women"s Championship and 2012 CONCACAF Under-20 Women"s Championship. She played 2 matches in the group stage.

And played in all 3 matches in the knock-out stage.

Roccaro captained the United States under-20 women"s national soccer team that competed at 2014 Fédération internationale de football association U-20 Women"s World Cup in Canada. She played all 360 minutes of the 4 matches played by the team

As the team was eliminated in the quarter-final.

Achievements

• She currently plays for the United States under-20 women"s national soccer team and helped the team win the 2012 Fédération internationale de football association Under-20 Women"s World Cup held in Tokyo, Japan. She was named a First Team ESPNHS All-American, a two-time All-American selection by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, and was Long Island Player of the Year. She was also namedd New York Gatorade Player of the Year, Long Island Player of the Year, and New York State Player of the Year as a senior. She was also named Big East Conference Rookie of the Year Roccaro was a member of the United States U-20 squad, which won the 2012 Fédération internationale de football association U-20 Women"s World Cup in Japan.

Membership

Roccaro played for local club team, Albertson Fury and was a member of the Olympic Development Program (ODP) Region I Team from 2007-2010 as well as the Eastern New York state Olympic Development Program (ODP) squad from 2005-2010. Roccaro has represented the United States as a member of the U-15, U-17, U-18, and U-20 national youth teams.