#1 Mackenzie Wood Women's Soccer Roster

2022 Season (Grad year at Notre Dame): 

• Third Team All-ACC selection
• Two-time ACC Defensive Player of the Week (Oct. 11, Oct. 25)
• ACC All-Academic Team
• Saved her best year for last, earning the starting role at Notre Dame and playing in 18 games – Produced a 13-2-3 record
• In over 1,641 minutes in net, she only allowed 11 goals.
• Her 0.60 GAA ranked 16th in the nation, 1st in the ACC.
• Collected a career-high 10 shutouts and would have had two more, both in NCAA Tournament, if it weren’t for late-game substitutions. Her 10 shutouts ranked 13th in the country, 1st in the ACC.
• Earned 42 saves on the year
• Before bowing out in the Elite Eight, the Irish were the only team up to that point to have not given up a goal in the NCAA Tournament, an 11-0 goal differential.

Coach Norman on Wood: 

“We are very excited to have Mackenzie join our team. She is extremely talented and as a four-year starter at Northwestern, she will bring a ton of experience to our program. We have seen Mackenzie play for a long time and have always been very impressed with her. We feel fortunate she can finish her already outstanding career here at Notre Dame.”

2021: 

Started all 17 games in goal … Played every minute of the season … Made six saves in the season-opener against Xavier (8/22) … Saved seven of eight shots on target to preserve a tie against Maryland (9/26) … Had six saves in a shutout-win against Illinois (9/30) … Recorded seven saves against Wisconsin (10/14) … Made eight saves against Purdue (10/21).

2020:

Started all 13 games in net… Made four saves and recorded her tenth-career clean sheet in a win over Indiana (2/20) … Had two saves in her second clean sheet of the season against Maryland (2/28) … Recorded four saves in a shutout of Iowa (3/7) … Made five saves to shutout Purdue in the first round of Big Ten Regional weekend.

2019:

Started all 18 games … Ranked second in the Big Ten for saves per game, averaging 4.2 per game … Ranked third in the Big Ten for saves, tallying 75 this season … Named to Big Ten Preseason Honors List … Named Big Ten Goalkeeper of the Week (10/1) … Recorded her ninth career shutout in a win at Cincinnati (9/5) … Tied a career-high with 10 saves against Harvard (9/8) … Recorded tenth career shutout in win over Nebraska (9/26) … Made eight saves in victory over Iowa (9/29) … Recorded third shutout of the season with six saves in draw against Purdue (10/3).

2018:

Named team Most Valuable Player … Received three Big Ten Freshman of the Week awards as well as a Big Ten Goalkeeper of the Week award … Earned Big Ten All-Freshman Team honors …Named Defensive MVP at Boilermaker Challenge Cup … Awarded All-Tournament Team honors in both Boilermaker Challenge Cup and Hoosier Challenge Cup … Started in all 19 games this season … Finished the season with a .650 Goals Against Average which ranked 31st in the nation and first in the Big Ten, an .854 save percentage which ranked 30th in the nation and third in the Big Ten, and eight shutouts which ranked 28th in the nation and second in the Big Ten … Northwestern posted the longest shutout streak in program history, a 668:42 mark from August 19 to September 14 … Marked her first career shutout with three saves en route to a 2-0 victory over Wake Forest (Aug. 19) … Recorded a career high ten saves to shutout West Virginia in a hard fought draw (Aug. 26) … Faced sixteen shots against Penn State (Sept. 20) for a 1-0 victory … Faced eight shots to mark her eighth career shutout against Purdue (Oct. 14) … Ranked #37 in Freshman Women by TopDrawerSoccer.

Career Highs:

Minutes………………..110 (8x), vs. Maryland (9/26/21)
Saves………………………..10 (2x), vs. Harvard (9/8/19)
Shots Faced…………….32, vs. West Virginia (8/26/18)

Before Northwestern:

Named 2018 WPSL Defensive Player of the Year and Earned WPSL All-Conference Team honors of the WPSL Central Region North Conference … High School: US National Training Camps U18 and U16 (2017 and 2016) … 2016 ECNL/id2 National Training Camp … 2016 ECNL National Playoffs Best XI … 2016 ECNL/National Playoffs Day 2 Standout … Club Team Captain 2015 and 2016 … High School Senior Team Captain … 2017-18 USA Today American Family Insurance First-Team ALL-USA … 2017 TeamSnap First-Team Fall All-American … 2017 Top Drawer Soccer Fall All-American, All-Region, and State-Star … 2017 All-American Game Invitee … 2017 Indiana Girls Soccer Career Shutout Record at 49 … 3 year Northern Indiana Conference Team honors … 3 year All-Conference Team honors … 3 year All-District Team honors … 3 year Indiana Soccer Coaches Association … 2 time All-State Team honors … High School Team National Champion (2017-2018) … High School State Champion (2017) … High School State Runner-up (2015) … Valedictorian Penn High School … Member of National Honor Society and Student Council

Personal:

Born Mackenzie Kay Wood … Parents Matt and Kiley Wood … Anticipated major at Northwestern is Undecided.