Lillian Johnston '22 Recruiting Profile

I started playing soccer when I was 3 years old and have been very committed to the game throughout my life. I want to play soccer at the highest college level I can to help support myself financially throughout college and to make connections with inspirational young women. I was a student at Juanita High School and I enrolled in the Running Start program in 2020 which helped me gain my Associates of Arts and Sciences in Spring of 2024. I started playing club soccer when I was 9 years old at Crossfire Premier. I was on various ECNL and Developmental Academy teams with Crossfire until I switched to Seattle United in 2018 for personal reasons. After that, I played for the Seattle United ECNL 04 women's team as a goalkeeper until I graduated high school. Throughout my high school career, I was the starting goalkeeper for my high school women's varsity soccer team since my freshman year, earning a varsity letter each year. I finished my senior season earning a spot on the KingCo 1st team and was also awarded an honorable mention for women's varsity soccer during my freshman year. After high school, I attended Bellevue College for one more additional year to finish the credits that I needed in order to obtain my Associates degree. I also played soccer with the Bellevue College women’s soccer team for one season, coached by Richard Romain-Dika. Since then, I have taken a short break from both school and soccer to think about what I want to go back to school for, and also work more so I can save money for myself in order to support myself when I go back to school. I have been financially independent for the past few years, and I know that school and soccer are both very important to my journey. and I am ecstatic to get back to learning; both in college and the great game.