2025 Soccer Roster
Mia Yang
- Position:
- Defender
- Height:
- 5-7
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Leawood, Kan.
- High School:
- Blue Valley
- Club Team:
- Sporting Blue Valley
Awards & Honors
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2025 SEC Preseason Watch List
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2024 Fall SEC Academic Honor Roll
Missouri
2024 (Sophomore)
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Played in 15 games with 14 starts, totaling 1,205 minutes.
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Logged 56 minutes in a shutout victory over Missouri State (Aug. 15).
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Tallied one shot and played a full 90 minutes in matches against Memphis (Aug. 18) and Illinois (Aug. 22).
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Notched a shot in 49 minutes of play during a shutout win over SEMO (Sept. 8).
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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)
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Appeared in 14 games, earning nine starts.
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Played 918 minutes across the season.
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Helped secure two clean sheets against Missouri State and SEMO.
Prep
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Prepped at Blue Valley High School in Stilwell, Kan., where she was a three-sport athlete in soccer, basketball, and track.
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Lettered in soccer for three seasons under head coach Gags Pritchard.
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Two-time Kansas All-State First Team and two-time Eastern Kansas League 6A First Team.
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Twice named to the Top-15 Class 6A Players to Watch list.
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Helped Blue Valley to two Regional Class 6A titles.
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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.
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Chose Mizzou over Wisconsin, Michigan State, Boston University, and West Virginia.
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Also lettered two years in basketball, helping her team to a Sub-State championship.
Personal
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Born Sept. 9, 2004, in Leawood, Kan.
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Daughter of Augustine and Andrea Yang; has two sisters, Anna and Keely, and one brother, Max.
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Majoring in Biology.
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Favorite athletes are Alex Morgan, Simone Biles, and Naomi Osaka.
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Chose Mizzou for the welcoming team culture, coaching staff, and the opportunity to play in the SEC close to home.
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Lists her most memorable soccer moment as scoring her first in-season goal against Memphis.
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Enjoys hanging out with family and friends, shopping, and trying new foods in her free time.
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Career aspiration is to become a doctor.
