South Carolina girls’s soccer defender Jyllissa Harris was taken twenty second total with the tenth choose within the second spherical of the Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League Draft Thursday evening by the Houston Sprint.
Harris turns into the fourth Gamecock to be taken within the NWSL Draft, and the primary second-round choose in this system’s historical past. She joins Sabrina D’Angelo (2015), Savannah McCaskill (2018) and fellow Gamecock and Houston Sprint participant Ryan Garies (2022).
“I'm thrilled for Jyllissa and the alternatives these gamers should proceed taking part in at such a excessive stage past the faculty sport,” head coach Shelley Smith mentioned. “It has been her dream to play professionally and I'm so pleased with her for working so arduous to place herself ready to attain that objective. All of us stay up for watching her proceed to develop as knowledgeable on this nice sport and as a pereson past her time with us right here at South Carolina.”
Harris was the mainstay of her staff throughout her profession, beginning in all 24 video games of the Gamecocks’ season and logging a team-high 2177 minutes alongside the way in which. Her 9395 complete profession minutes broke and set the brand new NCAA report for the class. Forward of the NCAA Event, Harris and this system gained the SEC Event for simply the third time in class historical past and their first since 2019. The New Jersey native helped South Carolina to the Candy 16, and scoring within the staff’s opening postseason 2-0 win over Wake Forest. Throughout her five-year profession, Harris began in all however two of her 107 video games performed and eclipsed the 2000-minute mark twice, the second time coming in her sophomore season. Gathering spectacular honors via her collegiate profession, her remaining yr noticed her earn a High Drawer Soccer Greatest XI choice in addition to a United Soccer Coaches Second Crew All-American nod.
The Houston Sprint had a report breaking season in 2022, ending fourth within the league desk and shutting the season with a 10-7-6 mark after making it to the quarterfinals of the NWSL Playoffs, their first postseason look in program historical past.