#5 Sofia Bush Season 2026-27

2025 Honors – Second Team All-Big Ten…CSC Academic All-District…voted the team’s most valuable player…Dean’s List…Academic All-Big Ten…Letterwinner…United Soccer Coaches Second Team All-North Region…United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-Region Team…became the second player in program history to be named to the Mac Hermann Trophy Watchlist…named to Top Drawer Soccer’s Team of the week (8/19)…Big Ten Tournament All-Tournament Team…ranked No. 21 in Top Drawer Soccer’s Preseason Top 100 Players list…named to Top Drawer Soccer’s Preseason Best XI Second Team…named a Big Ten Player to Watch…named to Top Drawer Soccer’s Midfielders to Watch List…U-20 USWNT camp call-up. 2025 – Started in 20 games…scored one goal at Indiana, the game winner (10/26)…dished out six assists, leading the team…posted a career-high two assists at Arkansas (8/14)…played the full 90 minutes eight times, including four straight to close the season.

2024 Honors – Big Ten Player to Watch...Letterwinner…President’s list…Named #74 on Top Drawer Soccer’s Postseason Top 100 Players list…Academic All-Big Ten…named Third Team All-North Region by the United Soccer Coaches…All-Big Ten Third Team…Named #17 on Top Drawer Soccer’s Midseason Top 100 players list. 2024 – Started in all 22 games totaling 1,749 minutes…played 90 minutes in six games…recorded five goals on the season…had two game winning goals on the season…recorded four assists, tied for third on the team…recorded a career high six shots against Missouri State in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament.

2023 Honors – All-Big Ten Freshman Team… ranked #87 by Top Drawer Soccer Top-100 Freshman… voted Iowa Newcomer of the Year… letterwinner. 2023 – Made 15 starts playing in all 22 games… second among Iowa freshmen with 1,587 minutes… three goals and two assists (8 points)… 29 shots (.103 percentage) and 15 shots on goal (.517 SOG percentage)… two game-winners, including the go-ahead score against No. 12 Michigan State in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament.

High School – First team All-State as a junior at Linn-Mar High School in 2022… set school records for goals (25) and assists (22) last season… all-conference honors as a sophomore… has played two seasons with Sporting Iowa ECNL… State Cup winners in 2021… ECNL Midwest All-Conference Team, 2021-22… ECNL National Selection Game participant in 2021… USYS ODP National Training Camp in 2020… Academic Honors with Distinction… National Honors Society… enrolled at the University of Iowa in Spring 2023, making the Dean’s List.

Personal – Born Jan. 12, 2005… daughter of Todd and Brenda Bush… sister Isabel Bush… Biology major.