University of Missouri Athletics

Awards & Honors

• 2025 SEC Preseason Watch List

• 2024 Fall SEC Academic Honor Roll

Missouri
2024 (Sophomore)

• Played in 15 games with 14 starts, totaling 1,205 minutes.

• Logged 56 minutes in a shutout victory over Missouri State (Aug. 15).

• Tallied one shot and played a full 90 minutes in matches against Memphis (Aug. 18) and Illinois (Aug. 22).

• Notched a shot in 49 minutes of play during a shutout win over SEMO (Sept. 8).

• Went the distance in 90-minute performances against Miami (Aug. 29), Duke (Sept. 12), Texas A&M (Sept. 19), Ole Miss (Oct. 10), Oklahoma (Oct. 18), Texas (Oct. 24) and LSU (Oct. 27).

2023 (Freshman)

• Appeared in 14 games, earning nine starts.

• Played 918 minutes across the season.

• Helped secure two clean sheets against Missouri State and SEMO.

Prep

• Prepped at Blue Valley High School in Stilwell, Kan., where she was a three-sport athlete in soccer, basketball, and track.

• Lettered in soccer for three seasons under head coach Gags Pritchard.

• Two-time Kansas All-State First Team and two-time Eastern Kansas League 6A First Team.

• Twice named to the Top-15 Class 6A Players to Watch list.

• Helped Blue Valley to two Regional Class 6A titles.

• Competed at the club level with Sporting Blue Valley for 13 years under Colin Bulwich, where she was teammates with fellow Class of 2023 signee Monica Brauner.

• Chose Mizzou over Wisconsin, Michigan State, Boston University, and West Virginia.

• Also lettered two years in basketball, helping her team to a Sub-State championship.

Personal

• Born Sept. 9, 2004, in Leawood, Kan.

• Daughter of Augustine and Andrea Yang; has two sisters, Anna and Keely, and one brother, Max.

• Majoring in Biology.

• Favorite athletes are Alex Morgan, Simone Biles, and Naomi Osaka.

• Chose Mizzou for the welcoming team culture, coaching staff, and the opportunity to play in the SEC close to home.

• Lists her most memorable soccer moment as scoring her first in-season goal against Memphis.

• Enjoys hanging out with family and friends, shopping, and trying new foods in her free time.

• Career aspiration is to become a doctor.