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Villanova Career: 2024 All-BIG EAST Third Team selection … Started in 40 matches as a Wildcat with 51 appearances … Totaled 3201 minutes on the pitch … Has accounted for three points on a goal and an assist

2024: All-BIG EAST Third Team defender and Top Drawer Team of the Week selection (Oct. 22) … Steady part of the Villanova defense, starting in all 17 of her appearances for 1453 minutes … Had three shot attempts with two on goal, all in conference action; BIG EAST: Started in all nine appearances … Scored the first goal of her career in a 3-0 win at Marquette (10/17).

2023: Played in all 18 games with 14 starts for 1125 minutes … Picked up an assist against Lehigh (8/20) … BIG EAST: Started in all 10 contests … Had two shot attempts.

2022: Started nine games and appeared in 16… Totaled 625 minutes on the pitch… Played a season high 63 minutes against Georgetown. BIG EAST: Started eight games and played ten…totaled 452 minutes on the pitch…

McLeod comes to Villanova after spending her freshman season at Vanderbilt.  In the 2021 season appeared in six games and played 36 minutes on the pitch.  At East Meadow she guided her team to the Long Island Division I semifinals twice, winning the conference in 2018.  In that same season East Meadow's advanced to the national finals and ranked No. 2 in the nation.  Scored 20 goals and dished out nine assists from 2017-19. 

"I chose to attend Villanova because there is a large sense of community. The campus is amazing and there is a chance to gain a high level of education while also competing with the soccer team."