Kathryn Baker

Position:
Defender
Height:
5-8
Class:
Redshirt Senior
High School:
Kitsilano Secondary School
Hometown:
Vancouver, B.C.

Redshirt Senior (2017):

CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team
Pac-12 Academic Second Team
Started all 11 games she played
Played at least 90 minutes in eight games
Missed the final eight games of the season due to injury.

Redshirt Junior (2016) [Game-by-Game Stats]
• Pac-12 All-Academic Second Team
• Started in all 19 games she played in.
• Was part of a defense that recorded four shutouts.
• Logged a season high 97 minutes against San Diego on Sept. 18.
• Tallied the second most minutes by a field player with 1,602.

Junior (2015) [Game-by-Game Stats]
•   Played two games, before missing the majority of the season due to injury.
•   Played all 110 minutes in the season-opener at Portland.

Sophomore (2014) [Game-by-Game Stats]
•   Started all 20 games, missing just seven minutes.
•   Earned Pac-12 Academic First Team honors.
•   Tallied five shots on the year including two on goal.

Freshman (2013) [Game-by-Game Stats]
•   Played and started all 20 matches.
•   Recorded 1,832 minutes on the field during her first season as a Beaver, the second most on the team.
•   Took two shots as a center-back.
•   Named Pac-12 All-Conference Honorable Mention.

Kitsilano Secondary School
•   Member of the Premiere Girls Soccer Team since grade 8.
•   Named Team Captain and Soccer All-Star.
•   Helped the team to a Lower Mainland Championship.
•   Also a member of the basketball team, earning All-Star honors, and the women’s rugby team, where she was named Co-Captain.
•   Named “Athlete of the Year” twice.

Club
•   Played for Vancouver BC and White Caps Girls Elite.
•   Also played for Team BC in the Canadian Western Summer Games, where she helped her team win a gold medal.

Personal
•   Daughter of Syd Baker and Janice Raffin.
•   Has two siblings, Ben and Matthew.
•   Majoring in environmental engineering.
•   Chose OSU because “It has an amazing soccer program as well as the academic programs I was looking for. It’s a big school with a small town feel and I could picture myself spending the next several years there."