2017 Honors — Academic All-Big Ten… named to the Dean’s List for the spring semester. 2017 — Battled injury to see action in nine games, logging 257 minutes… collected one assist in the season-opener at Richmond (8/20)… fired four shots, three of which were on goal… letterwinner.
2016 Honors — Academic All-Big Ten selection. 2016 — Saw action in 16 games, including making eight starts… logged 667 minutes… scored two goals on 23 shots and had two assists… tallied her first collegiate point in season opener at Creighton (8/19)… scored goals in back-to-back games… notched her first career goal and tallied an assist in Iowa’s 4-1 win over Colorado State (9/2)… also found the back of the net in a 5-1 triumph over SIU Edwardsville (9/4)… named to the Dean’s List during the fall semester… letterwinner.
2015 — Competed in five games, logging 125 minutes… fired two shots on the season… named Academic All-Big Ten…letterwinner.
2014 — Redshirted.
High School — Four-time Iowa Gatorade Soccer Player of the Year, the nation’s first female soccer player in the program’s 29-year history to earn the distinction four times… named to the 2014 NSCAA High School Girls All-America Team… four-time first-team all-state, first-team All-Metro soccer team, 1A all-tournament team and first-team all-conference selection… named the Quad City Times Female Athlete of the Year in 2011-12… led prep team to four consecutive 1A state championships and four Mississippi Athletic Conference titles… won 51-straight games from 2011-13 — the eighth-longest winning streak in U.S. high school girls soccer history… finished her career with 118 goals and 54 assists, leading team to a 81-6 overall record… scored 29 goals, had nine assists for 67 points as a freshman, 28 goals and 13 assists for 69 points as a sophomore, a school-record 32 goals and 19 assists for a record 83 points as a junior and 29 goals and 17 assists for 75 points as a senior… school-record holder for career goals (118)… played club soccer for the Iowa City Alliance Heatwave from 2010-14, where she was the two-time club Female Player of the Year (2012-13, 2011-12) and the team MVP in 2010-11… named to the All-Tournament (U17) Team “Best 11” at the 2013 U.S. Youth Soccer National Championships … led club team to three State Cup and regional tournament titles (2010-12)… played four years on the Region II ODP Team, winning the 2012 Inter-Regional Tournament in Boca Raton, Fla… high school coaches were Rob Eckert and Jonathan Dreasler… club coach was Paul Dayrell… also won five career Drake Relays titles, was on two state championship relays and was the 1A state champion in the 100-meter dash in 2013 and a track All-American… National Honor Society and first honor roll member.
Personal — Born Dec. 27, 1995… daughter of Joe and Tracy Ripslinger… has three older and one younger sister, Marie, Ann, Grace and Joy… father ran track and was a defensive back at St. Ambrose… Grace was an honorable mention All-American defender at St. Ambrose (2008-12) and Ann ran cross country at Wartburg College… majoring in communications studies.