2012 Soccer Roster
Oct 23 (Thu)
7 p.m.
Jenna Glad
- Position:
- Midfielder
- Height:
- 5-7
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Tucson, Ariz.
- High School:
- Catalina Foothills
FRESHMAN (2012): Glad played 333 minutes in eight games. She made her two starts in back-to-back road games at Northwestern (2-2), where she played a season-high 110 minutes, and Denver (1-4), where she sent her first shot as a Buff on goal. Glad returned to her home state in the final road trip of the season, making her conference debut in the Buffs' 3-0 shutout of Arizona.
HIGH SCHOOL: In her three years playing for Catalina Foothills High School in Tucson, Ariz., Glad recorded a 69-7 record and scored the game-winning or game-securing goal in each of the school's three-consecutive state championships. She also scored the winning goal in the Tucson Soccer Academy's State Cup championship game, the first title win for a Tucson girls' club team in 14 years. Glad, a three-year letterwinner for the Falcons, earned 2012 Big Schools Player of the Year and first-team all-state honors from the Arizona Republic, Player of the Year and first-team all-southern Arizona honors from the Tucson Citizen and All Division II/Section II Player of the Year honors from the Arizona Interscholastic Association. With the Falcons, Glad scored 36 goals and had 28 assists. She was a three-time Scholar-Athlete AIA Honor Roll Award and Catalina Foothills School District STAR award winner. Her junior year she earned first-team all-state honors from the Tucson Citizen and second-team all-state honors from the Arizona Republic and the Arizona Daily Star. Glad also competed on the Washington State Elite Development Program team, reaching two championship games, including a title win in 2006.
IN THE CLASSROOM: Glad's major at Colorado is business. She hopes to one day start her own business, possibly in interior design.
PERSONAL: Glad was born February 21, 1994 in Hollywood, Calif. to Bill and Becky Glad. She has two brothers. Her older brother Eric earned 2011-12 first-team All-American National Junior College Athletic Association soccer honors at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. Her younger brother, Justen, is currently in high school. Glad enjoys swimming, reading and travelling. She has been to India three times to work at an orphanage and teach English.
