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Kansas State

Sep 18 (Thu)

7 p.m.

Brie Hooks

Position:
Forward
Height:
5-1
Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Maple Valley, Wash.
High School:
Tahoma

2013 Omni Hotels Colorado Women’s Soccer Classic All-Tournament Team
Pac-12 All-Freshman Team
University of Colorado Female Freshman of the Year
Under-20 USWNT Training Camp
2014 Collegesportsmadness.com Preseason All-Pac-12 Second Team
2014 All-Pac-12 Second Team
2014 Collegesportsmadness.com All-Pac-12 First Team
2014 NSCAA/Continental All-Pacific Region Third Team
2014 UNLV Nike Invitational All-Tournament Team
2014 University of Colorado Female Athlete of the Year
2015 CU Female Athlete of the Week (Aug. 24)

JUNIOR (2015): Hooks started 16 of 20 matches at forward. She led CU with five goals, five assists, 15 points, 67 shot attempts and 30 shots on goal. She scored a goal in a season-opening draw with Colorado State and had a goal and an assist in a 3-0 win over Colorado College on Aug. 23. She also had a goal and assist in a 2-1 win over Iowa State, scoring the game-winner. She also was credited with the game-winner, scoring the first goal of a 3-0 win over Villanova on Sept. 20. Her lone goal in Pac-12 play came in a 3-3 draw with No. 25 Arizona on Oct. 30. Hooks also had assists against New Mexico, Denver and California.

SOPHOMORE (2014): Hooks followed up her stellar debut season with another impressive year in black and gold. During her sophomore campaign, she started all 22 matches, tied her career-high with eight goals while setting a new personal best with six assists, 23 points and 58 shots. In Colorado’s sophomore offensive record book, she ranks first in points, tied for second in goals, second in shots and tied for second in assists. She tallied the game-winning assist for the Buffs in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament against BYU, helping CU advance to the Round of 32 for a second straight year. She finished the year ranked in the top 15 in the Pac-12 in assists, goals, points and shots, and also led the Buffs in the same respective categories. Her outstanding performance on the pitch earned her a handful of honors including All-Pac-12 Second Team, Collegesportsmadness.com All-Pac-12 First Team, NSCAA/Continental All-Pacific Region Third Team, UNLV Nike Invitational All-Tournament Team and University of Colorado Female Athlete of the Year.

FRESHMAN (2013): Hooks had one of the strongest debuts in Colorado history. She became the first Buff to record multiple goals in her debut, scoring two in CU’s 3-0 shutout of Northern Colorado. In her next game, she had her first game-winner, CU’s lone score in a 1-0 win over Colorado College. Hooks next had game-winners in back-to-back victories over St. Mary’s and Alabama. Just three games later, Hooks recorded her fourth game-winner (which ties for fourth best in a single season at CU), notching the first goal in a 4-0 stomping of Stony Brook. In the next, she contributed an assist in a 3-1 win over UNLV, helping her to a spot on the Omni Classic All-Tournament Team. Hooks missed the team’s first four conference games due to an injury, but got back to her scoring ways against USC, netting a goal and contributing an assist in the 2-1 win over USC. An important part of the Buffs’ attack throughout the season, Hooks was also key to their postseason run, drawing the foul that set up the game-winning goal over No. 15 Denver in the NCAA First Round. In CU’s freshman offensive record books, Hooks concluded the season ranked third with eight goals and fourth with 18 points. Her 42 shots tied for eighth. Her eight goals also tie for eighth most in a single season at CU. Hooks capped her freshman campaign with an invite to the U.S. Under-20 Women’s National Team training camp and a spot on the All-Pac-12 Freshman Team. She was also named the team’s Newcomer of the Year and the CU Female Freshman Athlete of the Year.

HIGH SCHOOL: Hooks was truly a leader for the Tahoma Bears. She has scored 36 goals in her career, and her 79 assists became a school record. At Tahoma she won three South Puget Sound League North Championships and back-to-back league championships. Hooks continued to improve, from a 19 point, 14-3-2 freshman season to a 58 point, 21-1 senior campaign. That season, she also set the record for most assists with 28. The Bears placed second at the state championship when Hooks was a sophomore and finished third in her final two seasons. Hooks’ accolades are nearly endless. She was selected as first-team SPSL North four times, Seattle Times All-Area three times, first-team Tacoma News Tribune All-Area and first-team All-State twice and was a WIAA Team Academic Award winner twice (for athletes with a grade-point average of 3.85 or higher). She was her team’s offensive and overall MVP twice a piece, as well as a two-time 4A state MVP. As a senior, she was the SPSL North’s Co-MVP and TNT’s player of the year. She played two seasons of basketball and ran track, but she also excelled beyond Tahoma. Her crossfire ECNL club team won the state championship in 2011. In ODP, she competed in numerous events and camps, including two Thanksgiving Interregional Events, where she was the leading scorer in 2011. She was named All-Tournament second team at the 2011 and ‘12 Region IV ODP Championships. She was also invited to the US Youth Soccer National Training Sessions in 2010 and ‘11.

IN THE CLASSROOM: Hooks majors in sociology.

PERSONAL: Brianna Hooks was born in Seattle on Feb. 10, 1995. Her family is no stranger to sports. Her father, Kim Hooks, played baseball at Edmonds Community College, and her mother, Kelly Wirtala, played tennis at Shoreline Community College. Her grandfather, James Hooks, played football at Central Oklahoma before joining the Detroit Lions. She has two younger brothers, Kim and Julius. She hopes to become a sports psychologist. Hooks sang alto in Tahoma’s treble choir, where she had a superior score at the state competition. She has taken three years of American Sign Language and hopes to become fully fluent while at CU. She liked the sense of home CU’s campus gave her and is excited to avoid the Washington rain.