2024 Soccer Roster
Allison LaPoint
- Position:
- Goalkeeper
- Height:
- 5-10
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- Royal Oak, Mich.
- High School:
- Shrine Catholic
2024: Started all 18 matches, finishing career starting all 60 appearances … patrolled the posts for all but five minutes, 40 seconds of the season (1,614:20) … graduated as only keeper in program history with three of the top ten seasons in total saves, leading the MAC in total saves (98) and save percentage (.803)—ranking in the top 25 and top 40 in NCAA I, respectively … graduated second all-time in career saves (285) … tied third-most saves in a single match, most in six-year tenure of Head Coach Jeremy Groves with 12 stops at nationally-ranked Texas (Sept. 1) … recorded four shutouts, reaching 15 for her career … held opponents scoreless for 337 straight minutes during conference play, including full-match shutouts against Akron (Sept. 22), at Northern Illinois (Sept. 26) and against league-champion Western Michigan (Sept. 29) … CSC Academic All-District … Academic All-MAC
2023: Started all 15 appearances, missed season-opener due to injury, playing all but the final 10 minutes of the season ... posted 84 saves (t-4th all-time for single season) ... moved into sixth all-time in career saves (187) ... tied her career high of eight saves three times (Sept. 21 vs. Eastern Mich.; Sept. 24 at Miami (OH); Oct. 19 at Bowling Green) ... posted two shutouts (Aug. 27 vs. Wright State; Oct. 15 vs. Akron) … named Academic All-MAC
2022: Did not play due to injury
2021: Started all 18 games … played every minute in all 18 games … ranked second in the MAC with a .816 save percentage … finished third in the league with a .937 goals against average and 18 goals allowed … ranked fifth in the MAC with six shutouts … ranked sixth in the league with 4.44 saves per game … posted three consecutive shutouts vs. Morehead State (Sept. 3), IUPUI (Sept. 9) and Eastern Illinois (Sept. 12) … earned MAC Co-Defensive Player of the Week for performances against IUPUI and Eastern Illinois … recorded back-to-back shutouts against Northern Illinois (Sept. 30) and vs. Western Michigan (Oct. 3) … made season-high eight saves against Michigan (Aug. 29) and Miami (Ohio) (Sept. 23) … earned Academic All-MAC honors.
Spring 2021: Named the MAC Defensive Player of the Week (March 23) after posting back-to-back shutouts of Western Michigan and Northern Illinois … started all nine games, logging every available minute in goal (827:22) … posted 0.98 goals against average and .719 save percentage … totaled 23 saves … recorded three shutouts … registered a season-high five saves in home win over Ball State (March 7).
High School (Soccer): Graduated top-ten in her class from Shrine Catholic High School in 2020 … three-year letterwinner and team captain for the Knights … first freshman at Shrine Catholic to be named a captain … recognized with MIHSSCA First Team All-State honors in 2019 … three-time Archdiocese of Detroit Varsity Soccer All-Catholic … in 2019, helped make school history by winning SCHS' first Division 4 district, regional and state championships … also claimed the 2019 Division 4 Catholic High School League title … named second team all-state in 2018 and all-state honorable mention in 2017
High School (Basketball): Also earned three letters in basketball … team captain as a junior … received Archdiocese of Detroit Varsity Basketball All-Catholic honors and Detroit News All-Area North Basketball Honorable Mention (2018-19) … Division 3 District and Regional champions and state quarterfinalists in 2018-19 … Division 3 Regional basketball finalists (2017-18) … Shrine Catholic National Honors Society Officer (2019) and National Honors Society member (2017-19) …
Club: Played with Vardar Soccer for eight years … qualified for ECNL national playoffs in 2018
Personal: Daughter of Steven ‘91 and Marianne LaPoint ‘93 … has one older sister, Bridget ‘22, and one younger sister, Jackie … both parents and older sister graduated from Central Michigan … played the lead in her eighth grade musical … won Taylor Swift tickets in a radio contest as a sophomore in high school waiting for an ID camp
Why CMU?: “I attended a PDP camp for soccer at Central Michigan University going into my freshman year of high school and walked around the campus with my dad. I immediately loved the campus, and it was so fun hearing all the stories my dad told about his and my mom’s times at CMU. When I started looking at schools, I couldn’t find anything that beat my short time at CMU. It was a perfect distance from my hometown so my parents could still come watch my games, and when I visited Central for soccer, I loved the environment and thought it was a perfect fit for me. I couldn’t be happier with my decision to come to CMU.”
Story Time: “One of my favorite recent memories on campus is when my roommate Jaelyn and I used the electric scooters around campus and then went to Dairy Queen. It was during finals week, so it was just such a nice, carefree moment with my best friend during a stressful time.
