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  Ali Shingler
Ali Shingler

Player Profile
Hometown:
Grove City, Ohio

High School:
Grove City

Height:
5-6

Position:
Goalkeeper

Birthdate:
06/10/1983

Experience:
4L

2005:
ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA FIRST TEAM

Ali Shingler saves a Kent State penalty-kick try during the 2005 MAC Tournament championship




SHINGLER AND THE FALCONS: Helped BGSU to the 2004 MAC Tournament title, and both the regular-season and tourney titles in 2005 ... the Falcons advanced to the NCAA Championships each year ... part of the senior class that won 44 games at BG, by far the most wins over a four-year span in the history of the program ... helped the Falcons to four consecutive appearances in the MAC Tournament from 2002-05, after the team had never made back-to-back trips before.

CAREER: Finished her BG career with 70 matches played, including 65 starts ... played a total of 5895:27, with 334 saves, a .763 saves percentage, a 1.59 goals-against average, 29 wins and 16 complete-match shutouts, ranking second on each of those lists ... ranks first or second on every goalkeeping chart in school history ... finished her career with five MAC Tournament wins, the most in BG annals ... went 5-1-3 in the league tourney, with the Falcons advancing in eight of the nine matches ... in each of the three ties, had a shutout and helped the Brown and Orange advance via PKs to the next round ... had a career GAA of 0.72 in the league tournament ... the only Falcon ever to play goal in an NCAA Championships match, having drawn the start in both the 2004 match at Ohio State and the 2005 national tourney contest vs. Michigan State.

2005: Named to the MAC's All-Tournament Team after helping the Falcons to three shutouts and the league tourney title ... named to the Academic All-America First Team, the first player to earn the honor in program history ... was an Academic All-District First-Team pick, of course, becoming the first Falcon to earn academic all-district honors three times ... an All-Ohio Honorable-Mention choice by the OCSA ... named to the Academic All-MAC Team, and also was named to the Soccer Buzz National Team of the Week on Nov. 10, after the Falcons' MAC Tournament title run ... earned the MAC Scholar-Athlete of the Week accolades on both Oct. 19 and Nov. 10 ... was named the Most Valuable Goalkeeper at the NAU Tournament ... started all 23 matches, setting a school record with 14 wins ... had a GAA of just 1.32 and tied the BG record with seven shutouts ... also had 109 saves ... put together a school-record shutout streak of 432:19, anchoring a defense that posted four consecutive shutouts during the middle of the MAC schedule ... in the league tournament, put together 310 consecutive shutout minutes as BG did not allow a goal en route to the title ... made a total of 12 saves in the three games, and had three more stops during the penalty-kick phases of the Toledo (quarterfinal) and Kent State (championship) matches ... in MAC play, was 9-2-0 with a 1.21 GAA and three shutouts ... played 77:16 of a fourth league shutout ... blankings came against Boise State, Ohio, Akron and Kent State during the regular season, and UT, Miami and KSU during the league tourney ... did not allow a goal at Cochrane Field after Sept. 11, ending her career with a personal home shutout streak of exactly 757 minutes ... had a GAA of 0.83 at home, including a microscopic GAA of 0.11 over the last nine home matches (one goal allowed in over 801 minutes in that stretch).

2004: An Academic All-District Second-Team selection ... also chosen to the Academic All-MAC Team ... named to the Soccer Buzz National Elite Team of the Week after her performance in the MAC Tournament ... chosen as the Falcons' Defensive MVP ... played in 21 matches, starting them all ... was 8-11-2 on the year, with 111 saves, a 1.45 goals-against average and five shutouts ... ranked fifth in the league in saves and saves per game, and seventh in saves pct. ... tied for fourth in the MAC in shutouts ... four of those shutouts came in MAC play, where she had a 1.34 GAA ... had a saves pct. of .787 ... had two matches with double-digit save totals, both coming in the MAC Tournament ... had a total of 28 saves in the three league tourney contests, allowing just two goals in that span ... made a career-high 11 stops vs. Central Michigan in the tourney championship, five days after making 10 saves at top-seeded Kent State in the quarterfinal round ... was 3-0 with a GAA of 0.62 in the three MAC Tournament matches ... made nine more saves in the NCAA match at Ohio State ... through the 2004 season, has four career MAC Tournament wins, the most in school history ... is 4-1-1 in league tourney play ... had back-to-back shutouts for the first time in her career, vs. Akron and Miami ... that was part of a career-long personal shutout streak of 268:02, the second-longest such streak in school history ... also blanked Buffalo, Toledo and CMU (MAC Tournament championship) ... made at least seven saves on nine occasions, including in each of the last five matches ... had a 5-3-1 record in the month of October, with four of her shutouts and a GAA of 1.08 ... on the year, her total of five shutouts ranks her second on the school single-season list ... is also second on the career shutout list at BG, with nine ... named to the MAC's Academic Honor Roll.

2003: The 2003-04 Falcon Club Female Junior Student-Athlete of the Year ... played in 22 of BG's 23 matches in goal, starting 21 ... had a 7-11-3 record and a GAA of 2.04 ... named to the Academic All-District Third Team, becoming only the second student-athlete in the history of the women's soccer program to earn such honors ... had 111 saves and four complete-match shutouts ... one of those shutouts came in the MAC Tournament semifinals, as the Falcons tied Central Michigan, 0-0 ... in the penalty-kick phase of that match, stopped the initial try by the Chippewas, spurring the Falcons on to the final ... in that CMU contest, made a key save at the end of the first overtime, plus three more stops in the second OT ... had a shutout streak of 167:38 during September ... first collegiate victory also was her first collegiate shutout, vs. Cincinnati ... made a season-high eight saves in each Eastern Michigan match, a 1-0 regular-season loss and a 2-1 MAC Tournament win ... blanked MAC-leading Kent State for 110 minutes in a double-OT scoreless tie, making seven saves ... also had a shutout against Ball State, with six saves ... played 45 minutes of a shutout win over Wright State ... her GAA was just 1.64 in MAC matches ... named to MAC Honor Roll.

2002: Did not see match action ... named to the MAC's Academic Honor Roll.

2001: Played in four matches off the bench ... did not record a decision ... had a 1.03 GAA, giving up just one goal in 87:27 ... made three saves on the year, including two in her collegiate debut vs. Iowa State, playing 16:29 in that match ... played the entire second half vs. Youngstown State ... also saw action vs. Central Michigan (one save in 11:29) and Ball State (14:29, no shots faced).

High School: Earned four letters at Grove City ('01) under coach Clyde Bowman ... twice earned All-Ohio Capital Conference First-Team honors, and earned all-league honorable mention once ... had six shutouts for the Greyhounds in both her junior and senior years ... earned all-district third-team honors as a senior ... was the team MVP as a sophomore ... captained the team as a senior ... graduated in the top 25 of her class, with honors.

Personal: Alison Kay Shingler was born June 10, 1983, in Columbus, Ohio ... a dual major - biology and applied health science - with a perfect 4.00 cumulative GPA ... daughter of Robert Shingler and Melody Shingler ... has three older brothers ... a member of the Omicron Delta Kappa executive committee ... also a member of Phi Eta Sigma freshman honor society ... has played club soccer with Ohio Premier ... team was Ohio South state champion in 2001.

ALI SHINGLER - BGSU CAREER STATISTICS
YearGP/GSMin.Svs.GAARecord
20014/087:2731.030-0-0
200322/211897:131112.047-11-3
200421/211858:031111.458-11-2
200523/232052:441091.3214-7-2
TOTALS70/655895:273341.5929-29-7