Biology sophomore Delaney Carrell is a defender for the UTRGV Women’s Soccer Team. She began her collegiate athletic career during the 2019 season. Within her first season, she played in 18 matches. Carrell landed her career-high playtime of 110 minutes during the UTRGV vs. Kansas City game on Oct. 4, 2019. Her collegiate athletic debut was at the UTRGV vs. Miami game on Aug. 22, 2019.
Q: What is your favorite thing about your sport?
A: “I just enjoy playing soccer. I always have and I like playing with my friends and meeting new people.”
Q: When did you first start playing soccer?
A: “When I was 3 or 4. My parents, just like when I was young, would, like, put me in a bunch of sports and I kind of just chose to stick with soccer.”
Q: What is your favorite way to train and why?
A: “I would say I like to train more in a group. Individually, it’s more like you have to be more self-motivated [rather than] when you’re with a team you are working with people and, like, you have an adult or personal trainer telling you what needs to be done.”
Q: What do you plan to do after graduation?
A: “I plan to go to … school to become a physician assistant.”
Q: What is the biggest challenge of being a student athlete?
A: “I would say time management, especially when it’s during the season. Because there is a bunch of traveling and you have to try to figure out how to arrange your classes to make sure you get everything in on time, plus everything with soccer.”
Q: Who is your sports model?
A: “I look up to Alex Morgan or, like, I also like basketball. So, I look up to Steph Curry and Klay Thompson. So, [I] mostly look up to big sports people. There’s, like, always something that I can relate to. Whether it’s, for example, Stephen Curry has always had ankle problems, and I have those, too. It is just like how he was able to overcome all those and become just as big as he is now.”
Q: If you played any other sport, what would it be and why?
A: “Basketball and I don’t know. I feel like I would have done that one because I didn’t play that when I was younger. So, I’d already kind of picked soccer and then I played it in middle school and I really liked it, but it was kind of too late for me to get into it.”
–Compiled by Karina Rodriguez
