Mia Justus

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Mia Justus
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Justus with Texas in 2024
Personal information
Full name Mia Taylin Justus [1]
Date of birth (2002-09-03) September 3, 2002 (age 22) [1]
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) [2]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Utah Royals
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2021–2022 Florida State Seminoles 14 (0)
2023–2024 Texas Longhorns 48 (0)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2025– Utah Royals 0 (0)
International career‡
2017–2018 United States U-16
2018 United States U-17
2019–2020 United States U-18 3 (0)
2018–2020 United States U-19 3 (0)
2019–2022 United States U-20 8 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of August 17, 2022

Mia Taylin Justus (born September 3, 2002) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for the Utah Royals of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). She played college soccer for the Florida State Seminoles and the Texas Longhorns. She played a backup role for the Florida State's 2021 national championship team before transferring to Texas, which she led to both Big 12 and SEC titles. She represented the United States at the youth international level.

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Early life and college career

Justus was raised in the Cleveland suburb of Lakewood, Ohio, one of six children born to Lauren and Leon Justus. She is a cousin of longtime United States men's national team goalkeeper Tim Howard. [2] She attended IMG Academy and first committed to Rutgers before switching to Florida State. [3]

Florida State Seminoles

Justus spent two years as the understudy to Cristina Roque for the Florida State Seminoles. She kept five clean sheets in her eight starts in the 2021 season, being named to the Atlantic Coast Conference all-freshman team. She was an unused substitute as Florida State won the ACC and national championships with Roque in goal. [4] [5] She kept four shutouts in six starts as a sophomore in 2022, helping the team win the ACC regular-season title. Roque played as the Seminoles won another ACC tournament and reached the NCAA semifinals. After the season, she transferred to the Texas Longhorns to get more playing time. [4] [6]

Texas Longhorns

Justus started every game for the Longhorns in her junior season in 2023, being named second-team All-Big 12 with 9 shutouts in 26 games. She led the team to the Big 12 championship as the tournament's most valuable player. Texas reached the third round of the NCAA tournament, where they fell to Florida State. [2] [7] [8] With the program's move to the Southeastern Conference in 2024, Justus kept a program-record 12 clean sheets and was named to the All-SEC third team. She led the Longhorns to the SEC championship as the tournament's most valuable player, posting a career-high 14 saves in a 2–1 win against Arkansas in the semifinals. [2] [9]

Club career

Utah Royals

The Utah Royals announced on December 30, 2024, that they had signed Justus to a three-year contract. [10]

International career

Justus trained with the United States youth national team beginning at the under-14 level in 2015. [2] [11] She traveled for international friendlies with the under-16 team in 2017 and 2018, [12] the under-17 team in 2018, [13] the under-18 team in 2019 and 2020, [14] and the under-19 team in 2018 and 2020. [15] She started for the under-20 team through the quarterfinals of the 2022 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, a tournament the United States won. [16] She started two games at the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, but the team did not make it out of the group stage. [2] [17] She played friendlies for the under-23 team against NWSL clubs in the 2023 preseason. [18] She was called into Futures Camp, practicing alongside the senior national team, in January 2025. [19]

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