![]() Shores with North Carolina in 2024 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | December 29, 2004 | ||
Place of birth | Denver, Colorado, U.S. | ||
Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | North Carolina Tar Heels | ||
Number | 2 | ||
College career | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2023– | North Carolina Tar Heels | 23 | (5) |
International career‡ | |||
2019 | United States U-15 | 1 | (0) |
2022 | United States U-20 | 2 | (0) |
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of June 28, 2022 |
Evelyn Shores (born December 29, 2004) is an American college soccer player who plays as a midfielder for the North Carolina Tar Heels. She won the 2024 national championship with the Tar Heels. She has represented the United States at the youth international level.
Shores was born in Denver, Colorado, to Debbie and Steven Shores, and has two older siblings. [1] She began playing soccer with Tophat SC of Atlanta Georgia, at age four. She stayed with the club through high school, playing two or three age groups up. [2] She attended the Westminster Schools, where she lettered in basketball and led the soccer team to three straight state titles. In her senior season, she scored 27 goals with 24 assists and was named to the Just Women's Sports All-America team. [1] [3] She was ranked by TopDrawerSoccer as the seventh-best recruit of the 2022 class. [2]
Shores made 13 appearances (6 starts) in her freshman season with the North Carolina Tar Heels before suffering a season-ending ACL tear against Wake Forest. She ended the 2023 season with 4 goals and 3 assists and was named to the ACC all-freshman team. [1] [4] She returned to the field for the last ten games of the 2024 season, including every round of the NCAA tournament. She scored and assisted in a 3–0 third-round win against Minnesota and averaged 45 minutes per game as North Carolina won their 23rd national title and first since 2012. [1] [5]
Shores began training with the United States youth national team at the under-14 level in 2017. [6] The next year, she helped the under-15 team win the 2018 CONCACAF Girls' U-15 Championship. She trained with the under-16 and under-17 teams before the youth national program went on hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic. [7] She helped the under-20 team win the 2022 Sud Ladies Cup but was not selected to the roster for the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. [2]
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