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The University of Mississippi Athletics
2023 Soccer Roster
Ohba, Shu
Jersey Number 1
Shu Ohba
- Class:
- Junior
- Position:
- GK
- Height:
- 5-7
- Experience:
- TR
- Hometown:
- Fujisawa, Japan
- High School:
- Fukushima Prefectural Futaba Future Senior High School
- Prev. School:
- East Tennessee State
- Major:
- Multi-Disciplinary Studies
Bio
2024 (SENIOR): Started 15 games in goal for the Rebels… Ranked third in the SEC with 79 saves on the year… Ranked second in the SEC in saves per game averaging 5.71 per match… Had a season-high nine saves in the match at LSU (9/22)… Recorded five straight games making six or more saves… Had back-to-back eight save matches against No. 3 Mississippi State (10/18) and Oklahoma… Allowed one or fewer goals in six matches… Competed with Team Japan in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
2023 (JUNIOR): Played 15 games in goal for the Rebels, starting in 14 of them ... 2023 All-SEC Second Team ... 2023 United Soccer Coaches All-Southeast Region ... Posted the fifth-lowest single-season Goals Against Average in program history, allowing just 0.91 goals per game ... Led the SEC in saves and saves per game during the regular season, making 67 saves for an average of 4.47 per game ... Finished the regular season second in the SEC in save percentage (.838) ... Recorded seven shutouts in a season for the second time in her career ... Made a season-high seven saves in a game three times (9/7 at Lipscomb, 9/15 vs LSU, 10/22 at Arkansas) ... Only allowed more than two goals in a game one time during the season ... Named SEC Defensive Player of the Week twice during the season, becoming the first Rebel since 2012 to do so ... Earned her first weekly award in early September for shutting out Samford and Georgia State in the same week ... Earned her second two weeks later as she shut out LSU to open SEC play ... Missed three games to compete with Team Japan in the 2023 Asian Games in China ... Also competed with Team Japan in the 2024 SheBelieves Cup.
EAST TENNESSEE STATE: Played in 26 games over two seasons for the Buccaneers ... Started in goal in all 26 games ... 2022 SoCon Player of the Year ... 2021 SoCon Freshman of the Year ... Set a new ETSU single-season record in shutouts (7) as a freshman ... Recorded 74 saves and allowed just 14 goals as a freshman ... Made 60 saves in just 10 games played after missing the first four games of the season in 2022 ... Played in the U-20 FIFA Women’s World Cup for Team Japan in Costa Rica during the start of the 2022 season.
HIGH SCHOOL: Attended Fukushima Prefectural Futaba Future Senior High School back in Japan ... Represented her country as high as the U20 level, receiving a start in goal for her side ... Also represented the U16-U19 Japan teams ... Helped record a 3rd place medal in the 2018 Asian Qualifiers ... A gold medalist with Japan in the U19 Asian Qualifiers in 2020 ... Won the 2021 Challenge League Championship with her club side JFA Academy Fukushima LSC.
PERSONAL: Born on July 11, 2002 ... Daughter of Tatsushi and Keiko Ohba ... Also played rugby and swam.
2023 (JUNIOR): Played 15 games in goal for the Rebels, starting in 14 of them ... 2023 All-SEC Second Team ... 2023 United Soccer Coaches All-Southeast Region ... Posted the fifth-lowest single-season Goals Against Average in program history, allowing just 0.91 goals per game ... Led the SEC in saves and saves per game during the regular season, making 67 saves for an average of 4.47 per game ... Finished the regular season second in the SEC in save percentage (.838) ... Recorded seven shutouts in a season for the second time in her career ... Made a season-high seven saves in a game three times (9/7 at Lipscomb, 9/15 vs LSU, 10/22 at Arkansas) ... Only allowed more than two goals in a game one time during the season ... Named SEC Defensive Player of the Week twice during the season, becoming the first Rebel since 2012 to do so ... Earned her first weekly award in early September for shutting out Samford and Georgia State in the same week ... Earned her second two weeks later as she shut out LSU to open SEC play ... Missed three games to compete with Team Japan in the 2023 Asian Games in China ... Also competed with Team Japan in the 2024 SheBelieves Cup.
EAST TENNESSEE STATE: Played in 26 games over two seasons for the Buccaneers ... Started in goal in all 26 games ... 2022 SoCon Player of the Year ... 2021 SoCon Freshman of the Year ... Set a new ETSU single-season record in shutouts (7) as a freshman ... Recorded 74 saves and allowed just 14 goals as a freshman ... Made 60 saves in just 10 games played after missing the first four games of the season in 2022 ... Played in the U-20 FIFA Women’s World Cup for Team Japan in Costa Rica during the start of the 2022 season.
HIGH SCHOOL: Attended Fukushima Prefectural Futaba Future Senior High School back in Japan ... Represented her country as high as the U20 level, receiving a start in goal for her side ... Also represented the U16-U19 Japan teams ... Helped record a 3rd place medal in the 2018 Asian Qualifiers ... A gold medalist with Japan in the U19 Asian Qualifiers in 2020 ... Won the 2021 Challenge League Championship with her club side JFA Academy Fukushima LSC.
PERSONAL: Born on July 11, 2002 ... Daughter of Tatsushi and Keiko Ohba ... Also played rugby and swam.
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