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Jilly Shimkin
American soccer player (born 2003) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jillian Alexandra Shimkin (born February 21, 2003) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder or forward for USL Super League club Tampa Bay Sun. She played college soccer for the Penn State Nittany Lions and the Texas Longhorns.
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Early life
Shimkin was born in Rockville Centre, New York, one of four children born to Jodie and Pete Shimkin.[1][2] Her younger sister Chloe played with her at Texas for one season.[3] Shimkin began playing soccer at age four.[4] She attended South Side High School but did not play high school soccer.[2] She played club soccer for Albertson Fury and New York Soccer Club, earning United Soccer Coaches All-American honors three times.[2][5] She was ranked by TopDrawerSoccer as the seventh-best recruit of the 2021 class.[2] She committed to Penn State as a freshman.[6]
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College career
Shimkin played one season for the Penn State Nittany Lions in 2021, starting in 15 games.[1] She then transferred to the Texas Longhorns in 2022. She started all 22 games and scored 7 goals with 7 assists, earning second-team All-Big 12 Conference honors. She opened scoring in the game that clinched the Big 12 regular-season title for Texas and did the same in the first round of the NCAA tournament.[2] In her junior season in 2023, she recorded 12 assists and added 4 goals in 24 games. She assisted Lexi Missimo's winning goal to advance to the third round of the NCAA tournament, where they lost to eventual champions Florida State.[2][4] She finished her senior season in 2024 with 4 goals and 6 assists in 23 games, winning the SEC tournament in Texas's first season in the conference and assisting in both of the team's games in the NCAA tournament.[2][7]
During college, Shimkin played in the summer with Women's Premier Soccer League club Downtown United and USL W League club Tampa Bay United.[8][9]
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Club career
Shimkin was a non-roster trialist with the North Carolina Courage in the 2025 preseason.[10] In June, she played for Austin Rise FC at the Soccer Tournament 2025, a seven-a-side tournament.[11] The next month, she signed her first professional contract with USL Super League club Tampa Bay Sun, with whom she had trained the year prior.[12] She made her professional debut on August 23, coming on as a halftime substitute for Ava Tankersley in the Sun's opening day 2–1 loss to Brooklyn FC.[13]
International career
Shimkin began training with the United States youth national team at the under-14 level.[14] She appeared in friendlies for the under-15, under-16, and under-17 teams between 2017 and 2019.[15] She played for the under-23 team against NWSL teams in the 2023 preseason.[14]
In 2024, Shimkin tried out for the United States national futsal team in advance of the inaugural 2025 FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup.[4]
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Honors and awards
Texas Longhorns
Individual
- Second-team All-Big 12: 2022
References
External links
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