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#10 Aleisha Ganief

Height 5-10
Class So.
Hometown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
High School Burnaby Central Secondary School
Club Team Whitecaps Girls Elite REX
Aleisha Ganief - Women's Soccer - University of Iowa Athletics

2021 Honors –Letterwinner. 2021 – started six of the eight games she appeared in… logging 493 minutes, where she recorded three shots… she played all 90 minutes in the first two matchups of the season… helped Iowa’s defense give up 20 goals with six clean sheets.

2020 Honors – Named to FTF Canada NCAA All-Canadian Freshman Second Team. 2020 – Appeared in 16 games with 14 starts… logged 1,191 minutes as a defender… attempted three shot attempts… key member of Iowa defense that posted six shutouts… played 90 or more minutes in five games.

High School — Made the U20 Canadian National Team for the England Tour where she received her first CAP for Canada… was a Canadian Youth National Team camp player in U17, U20… played for the Vancouver Whitecaps Girls Elite REX program and BC Team from 2013-16… earned academic honors from grades 8-12 and named to Principle’s List in ninth and 10th grade.

Personal — Born Feb. 10, 2002, in Vancouver, B.C… daughter of Muchtar and Grace Ganief… father is head coach at BCSPL… majoring in biology.