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Jersey Number 27
Mackenzie Cherry
- Position:
- Defender
- Class:
- Senior
- Height:
- 5-9
- Hometown:
- Canton, Ga.
- High School:
- Creekview HS
Honors
2021 All-Sun Belt Second Team
2020 All-Sun Belt First Team
2021 (Senior)
- Named All-Sun Belt second team
- One of just four players to start all 17 matches this season
- Logged a team-leading 1,600 minutes for the CCU backline
- Played every minute of every match this season
- Provided the assist on the Chants’ loan goal v. Louisiana (Oct. 8)
- Helped the Chanticleers earn four shutouts
- Attempted nine shots, four on goal
- Earned a spot on the President's List (4.0 GPA) for the 2021 fall term
2020-21 (Junior)
- Named All-Sun Belt first team
- Earned Sun Belt Defensive Player of the Week honors for her performance against Georgia State in the season opener (Sept. 20)
- Named TopDrawerSoccer.com Honorable Mention National Team of the Week on Sept. 22
- Started all 15 matches played
- Logged 1346 minutes of action on the Chanticleer defense
- Tallied three points on one goal and one assist
- Recorded a goal in the season opener against Georgia State
- Assisted on a goal against Appalachian State (Oct. 4)
- Earned a spot on the Dean's List (3.5 GPA or higher) for the 2020 fall and 2021 spring terms
2019 (Sophomore)
- Played in and started on the defensive backline in all 18 matches
- Logged 1575 minutes on the pitch
- Totaled two points on two assists on the season
- Recorded an assist in the 3-1 win over Jacksonville and in the 3-1 loss at Louisiana
- Also recorded one shot on the year, putting it on frame in the Sun Belt Championship quarterfinals loss to Georgia State
- Played every minute of 15 matches on the season
- Named to the President's List (4.0 GPA) for the 2020 spring term
2018 (Freshman)
- Started all 17 matches on defense as a true freshman
- Scored her first career goal with the game-winner in the 3-0 win over Louisiana
- Totaled six shots on the year, putting three shots on frame for a .500 shots on goal percentage
- Logged 1525 minutes on the pitch on the year
- Named to the Dean's List (3.25 GPA) for both the 2018 fall and 2019 spring semesters
- A member of the 2018-19 Sun Belt Conference Commissioner's List
Prior to Coastal Carolina
- Tabbed the Cherokee County Player of the Year as both a junior and senior
- A three-time all-region and all-county first team selection at Creekview High School
- Named the Creekview High School Outstanding Female Athlete of the Year as a senior
- Led her high school team to back-to-back Elite 8 finishes
- Totaled 39 goals and 18 assists over her final two years
- Uncle, Scott Cherry, was a member of the University of North Carolina basketball 1993 National Championship team
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