Mimi Van Zanten

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Mimi Van Zanten
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Van Zanten with Florida State in 2024
Personal information
Full name Amelia Donna Van Zanten
Date of birth (2005-01-25) January 25, 2005 (age 19)
Height 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Position(s) Outside back, midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Florida State Seminoles
Number 17
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2023– Florida State Seminoles 36 (4)
International career‡
2018 United States U-15
2023 Jamaica U-20 3 (1)
2024– Jamaica 1 (0)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of June 4, 2024

Amelia Donna Van Zanten (born January 25, 2005) is a college soccer player who plays as an outside back or midfielder for the Florida State Seminoles. Raised in Illinois, she represents Jamaica at the international level. She won the 2023 national championship with the Seminoles.

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Early life and college career

Van Zanten was raised in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, one of three daughters born to Priscilla and Kent Van Zanten. Her father played college football at Illinois Wesleyan; her sister Brianna played college soccer for Case Western Reserve; and her sister Kiki played for Notre Dame before being drafted by the Chicago Red Stars. [1] Van Zanten began playing soccer when she was two years old but also played other sports growing up including gymnastics and basketball. [2]

Van Zanten attended Stevenson High School, where she was named her high school conference's player of the year in 2022. [1] She played club soccer for Chicago FC United before joining Eclipse Select SC, where she helped win the ECNL under-18/19 national championship in 2021. [1] [3]

Florida State Seminoles

Van Zanten received Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) all-freshman honors as she helped the Florida State Seminoles go undefeated in the 2023 season. [1] She debuted off the bench and assisted Beata Olsson for the season's opening goal against Texas A&M. [4] She scored her first college goal in the last seconds of a 3–3 draw with then-No. 1-ranked North Carolina. [5] She consistently started for the Seminoles by the postseason and was named to all-tournament team of the ACC tournament. Florida State kept clean sheets through the first five rounds of the NCAA championship before defeating Stanford 5–1 in the final. [1]

International career

Van Zanten trained with the United States youth national team from the under-14 to under-17 level. She was one of the youngest players selected to the under-15 squad that won the 2018 CONCACAF Girls' U-15 Championship. [3] [6] She later chose to represent Jamaica and played for the country at the 2023 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, scoring one goal in a 4–1 win over Panama in the group stage. [7]

Van Zanten received her first call-up to Jamaica's senior team in May 2024. [8] She debuted for Jamaica on June 4, 2024, coming on for her Florida State teammate Jody Brown in the 77th minute of a 4–0 friendly loss to Brazil. [9]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Mimi Van Zanten". Florida State Seminoles . Retrieved November 10, 2024.
  2. ↑ Hood, Justin (August 28, 2023). "Amelia Van Zanten makes her collegiate debut as a Seminole". FSUNews.com. Retrieved November 10, 2024.
  3. 1 2 "U14 GNT opens up 2018 with camp in Norco". United States Soccer Federation. February 23, 2018. Retrieved November 10, 2024– via TopDrawerSoccer .
  4. ↑ Joffer, Prince Akeem (August 18, 2023). "No. 6 FSU soccer guts out a season opening win at Texas A&M". Tomahawk Nation. SB Nation . Retrieved November 10, 2024.
  5. ↑ Williams, Jack (September 28, 2023). "Freshman status not limiting Florida State soccer newcomers from making a major impact" . Tallahassee Democrat . Retrieved November 10, 2024.
  6. ↑ "US U17 WNT Camp Roster – October". United States Soccer Federation. October 7, 2021. Retrieved November 10, 2024– via TopDrawerSoccer .
  7. ↑ "Jamaica 4–1 Panama". CONCACAF. Archived from the original on May 20, 2023.
  8. ↑ "Reggae Girlz World Cup players return to national squad". Radio Jamaica News. May 10, 2024. Retrieved November 10, 2024.
  9. ↑ Mimi Van Zanten at FBref.com OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
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