Personal Statement
I was born in 2009 and will turn 14 in December.
I am currently in Year 10 (equivalent of Grade 9 in the US) and will enter College in 2027. My current standardised test results (YELLIS) place me in the Top 5% of students worldwide, with current projected iGCSE results equivalent of A/A*, which converts to a 4.0 GPA. My strongest subjects are in the maths and sciences. I am most interested in sports statistics, economics and data, and my goal is to combine football and academics at the highest level I can in College and to test myself and learn from the best in both areas. I believe that the next best step for my career would be to play abroad whether that be in North America, or Europe. Around College soccer readiness, I participated in two US D1 football camps (College ID and Elite) last summer (July 2023) and felt like I wasn't out of place and received nice feedback during the camps. I already balance the workload of heavy team and individual football training and academics, as I already have been doing this for 2+ years and feel comfortable I can be successful in a US college environment.
I am a versatile, attacking minded, two-footed player who can play different roles through the spine of a squad - CAM/CDM/ST and in a pinch CB. I play for Hong Kong Football Club (HKFC) U15 and U18 and am a representative of Hong Kong's U16 Woman's Youth National Team. The Youth National Team has a permanent squad and training setup, thus I currently train five times a week (Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri and Sat), alongside 2 matches a week on Tuesdays and Sundays. I also play A Grade (Varsity) football in Hong Kong for my school. With HKFC, I am also a weekly volunteer coach supporting our U8 Girls and also provide some basic xG (expected goals) and xA (expected assist) match/season analysis for the U15 and U18 teams I play on, but I also use the data for myself to improve.
The 2023/24 league season in Hong Kong starts this November/December and lasts until June, where I will continue to play on HKFC's U15 and U18 squads, and also hopefully continue to not only maintain my spot on the Youth National Team, but also to play up age groups if possible, because I believe that international matches with older age groups will best prepare me for US college soccer quality. I aim to be captain of all three squad teams I play on this year, and in pre-season so far, I have been part of the core three player leadership teams for all three squads.
In 2022/23, I played on both U15 (full season, other than 2 matches misses due to COVID) and U18 teams (5 appearances, 4 starts) HKFC squads. I won Youth FA Cup medals with both squads and was awarded FA Cup MVP by the Hong Kong Football Association (HKFA) in the U15 Youth FA Cup finals. I won a League Winners medal for U15, and a third place medal for U18. The Youth National Team had one friendly in 2022/23 (Hong Kong was one of the last countries/places to remove quarantine requirements during COVID) and I started as a Centre Forward in Hong Kong's U14 Youth Women's Squad in our only international friendly last year vs Macau's U19 girls, which we won 8-0. For my school, I led our Grade C (Junior Varsity, U14, 7-aside) team to a league championship and promotion to the first division, and also our Varsity team to a top 8 finish (in a 32 school league), which was the schools best ever result and led us also to placement in Hong Kong's new Grade A (Varsity, U20, 7-aside, hard court) first division for 2023/24.
