Florida State University Athletics
2024 Women's Soccer Roster
Roster
Gilchrist, Heather
Goalkeeper
/ Women's SoccerMidfielder/Forward
/ Women's SoccerForward
/ Women's SoccerMidfielder
/ Women's SoccerMidfielder
/ Women's SoccerMidfielder/Forward
/ Women's SoccerMidfielder
/ Women's SoccerForward
/ Women's SoccerDefender
/ Women's SoccerDefender
/ Women's SoccerMidfielder
/ Women's SoccerMidfielder
/ Women's SoccerDefender
/ Women's SoccerDefender
/ Women's SoccerGoalkeeper
/ Women's SoccerForward/Defender
/ Women's SoccerDefender
/ Women's SoccerForward
/ Women's SoccerDefender
/ Women's SoccerGoalkeeper
/ Women's SoccerForward
/ Women's SoccerMidfielder/Forward
/ Women's SoccerForward
/ Women's Soccer
Jersey Number 20
Heather Gilchrist
- Position:
- Defender
- Year:
- Junior
- Height:
- 5-8
- Hometown:
- Boulder, Colo.
- High School:
- Fairview High School
Bio
CAREER ACCOLADES:
- 2023 National Champion
- 3x ACC Tournament Champion (2022, 2023, 2024)
- 2023 ACC Regular Season Champion
- 3x All-ACC Academic Team (2022, 2023, 2024)
- 2x ACC Academic Honor Roll (2023-2024, 2022-2023)
- 2025 Hermann Trophy Watch List
- 2025 TopDrawerSoccer Top 100 Preseason Players - #23
- 2025 TopDrawerSoccer Best XI Third Team
- 2025 United Soccer Coaches Defender to Watch
- 2025 Preseason All-ACC Team
- 2024 TopDrawerSoccer Postseason Top 100 - #47
- 2024 United Soccer Coaches All-American Fourth Team
- 2024 United Soccer Coaches All-Atlantic Region First Team
- 2024 ACC All-Tournament Team
- 2024 All-ACC Third Team
- 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup - Third Place (United States)
- 2024 TopDrawerSoccer Preseason Top 100 - #22
- 2024 TopDrawerSoccer Preseason Best XI Second Team
- 2024 Preseason All-ACC
- 2023 CSC Academic All-District Team
- 2022 TopDrawerSoccer Freshmen Top-100 – #30
- 2022 All-ACC Freshman Team
2025 HIGHLIGHTS
- Has started in nine games and has three goals, including one game-winner, in 675 minutes
- Took season-best three shots vs. NC State on September 21 in 90 minutes played
- Played a complete game against North Carolina on September 17
- Played 58 minutes against Syracuse on September 14
- Took one shot on goal in 90 minutes vs. Louisville on September 11
- Netted third goal of the season against Florida Atlantic on September 7 and played 59 minutes
- Played 73 minutes vs. Stetson on September 4
- Took one shot in 90 minutes played vs. Kansas on August 28
- Attempted one shot on goal in 55 minutes against FIU on August 17
- Scored a career-high two goals including the game-winner in 70 minutes against Florida on August 14
2024 HIGHLIGHTS:
- Earned 14 starts and 12 full-game appearances, scoring one goal and one assist with seven shutouts in the Seminole backline.
- Recorded her fifth complete-game shutout in the regular season finale at Miami (10/31).
- Scored her first career goal in the win over Pittsburgh (10/20).
- Registered back-to-back shutouts and played all 90 minutes against Boston College and No. 23 Virginia (10/12, 10/17).
- Recorded her first assist of the season in the victory over North Florida (8/18).
- Started and played a full 90 minutes in the season opener at South Florida (8/15).
2023 HIGHLIGHTS:
- Tallied 1,840 minutes in 21 starts while adding two assists for the Seminoles in 2023
- Helped FSU allow just one goal in the NCAA Tournament
- Had a beautiful assist on FSU's first goal in the National Semifinal against Clemson
- Gave up no goals en route to the College Cup, tallied four straight clean sheets (11/24)
- Kept third straight clean sheet of the season against Duke, NC State, and No. 18 Pitt (10/22-11/2)
- Played all 90 minutes and helped allow just six shots to No. 11 Notre Dame in a 4-1 win (10/12)
- Recorded her third clean sheet of the season against rivals Florida (9/10)
- Contributed her second career assist in the game-winning-goal against Texas A&M (8/17) before keeping a clean sheet at ninth-ranked TCU (8/20)
2022 HIGHLIGHTS:
- Played in 23 games as a freshman with 22 starts.
- Totaled 1,954 minutes as a freshman, the most on the team in her center-back position.
- Helped lead a defense that recorded 11 shutouts in 23 games while holding the opponents to 0.87 goals per game.
- Recorded her first career start in the season opener against No. 12 South Carolina (8/18), playing the full 90 minutes.
- Recorded an assist to Emma Bissell in a 5-0 victory against FGCU (9/8).
NATIONAL TEAM
- 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup - Third Place (United States)
- Six appearances with five starts and two shutouts in the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
- YNT Regional ID Center (2021)
- US Training Center (June 2016-June 2019)
YOUTH
- Colorado Rush DA Player of the Year (2019)
- Trained with Lyon U20 in France (2019)
- TopDrawer ECNL AZ National Event Best XI (2020)
- Colorado Rapids WPSL, All-Conference Defender (2021)
- First Team ECNL All-Conference Northwest (2021)
- ECNL National Selection Game (2021)
- Colorado State Champion, Gymnastics (2017)
PERSONAL
- Daughter of Anne and Anthony Gilchrist
- Earned a 4.0 throughout high school
- Graduated Cum Laude
- Finished high school with a 4.7 GPA
- Mom did equestrian and dad played tennis at Cornell
- Majoring in Behavioral Neuroscience
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