Draft:Linda Ullmark
_02_(Ullmark).jpg) Ullmark with North Carolina in 2024 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Linda Helena Jade Ullmark[1] | ||
| Date of birth | April 21, 2006[2] | ||
| Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) | ||
| Position(s) | Attacking midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | North Carolina Tar Heels | ||
| Number | 7 | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2024– | North Carolina Tar Heels | 27 | (6) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2024 | United States U-19 | 1 | (0) |
| ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of June 3, 2024 | |||
Linda Helena Jade Ullmark (born April 21, 2006) is an American college soccer player who plays as an attacking midfielder for the North Carolina Tar Heels. She won the 2024 national championship with the Tar Heels.
Early life and college career
[edit]Ullmark lived in Japan for ten years while her father, William, was stationed there with the United States Marine Corps before moving to San Diego, California, and then Buffalo, New York.[1][3] She attended Nichols School in Buffalo, where she played on the soccer, lacrosse, basketball, and squash teams.[1] In her junior year in 2022, she scored 42 goals with 12 assists in 16 games and was named the New York Gatorade Player of the Year.[4] She played ECNL club soccer for the Western New York Flash.[1] She committed to North Carolina after being recruited by Damon Nahas over other offers including Harvard and Florida State.[3][5]
North Carolina Tar Heels
[edit]Ullmark was the only freshman to start all 27 games for the North Carolina Tar Heels in 2024.[1] She had a breakout performance against Virginia, scoring her first two college goals and assisting another in a 3–2 victory.[3][6] In the semifinals of the ACC tournament, she equalized from long range in a 2–1 win against close rivals Duke.[7] She notched three goals in the first three rounds of the NCAA tournament as North Carolina won their 23rd national title and first since 2012.[1][8] She finished her freshman season with 6 goals and 5 assists and was named to the ACC all-freshman team and TopDrawerSoccer Freshman Best XI first team.[1]
International career
[edit]Ullmark was called up to the United States youth national team at the under-17 level in 2023.[4] She played in a friendly for the under-19 team against Spain in 2024.[9]
Honors and awards
[edit]North Carolina Tar Heels
Individual
- ACC all-freshman team: 2024
- ACC tournament all-tournament team: 2024
- NCAA tournament all-tournament team: 2024
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g "Linda Ullmark". North Carolina Tar Heels. Retrieved January 27, 2025.
- ^ "Linda Ullmark". FC Buffalo. Retrieved January 27, 2025.
- ^ a b c Crowther, Harry (September 28, 2024). "'The one moment she needed': Linda Ullmark makes first career brace to best Virginia". The Daily Tar Heel. Retrieved January 27, 2025.
- ^ a b Bambini, Cole (June 26, 2023). "Nichols' Linda Ullmark named Gatorade New York Girls Soccer Player of the Year". The Buffalo News. Retrieved January 27, 2025.
- ^ "Nichols' Linda Ullmark named Class B state player of year in girls soccer; Clarence's Matt Andrews shares coach honors". The Buffalo News. December 5, 2022. Retrieved January 27, 2025.
Murray, Clevis (August 11, 2023). "Ullmark shows why she's state's best". The Buffalo News. Retrieved January 27, 2025. - ^ "Women's Team of the Week: Sept. 30". TopDrawerSoccer. October 1, 2024. Retrieved January 27, 2025.
- ^ Moon, Emma (November 7, 2024). "No. 4–seed UNC women's soccer upsets No. 1–seed Duke, 2–1, to advance to ACC championship". The Daily Tar Heel. Retrieved January 27, 2025.
- ^ Koh, Michael (December 9, 2024). "UNC Women's Soccer Beats Wake Forest to Win 23rd National Championship". Chapelboro.com. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
- ^ {{Soccerway}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
External links
[edit]- This article has no link in Wikidata
- Living people
- 2006 births
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- Soccer players from New York (state)
- Sportspeople from Buffalo, New York
- American women's soccer players
- Women's association football midfielders
- United States women's youth international soccer players
- North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer players