THREE-YEAR LETTER WINNER- Team Co-Captain...Expected to return to the defensive midfield role in her senior season...Potent on restarts and corner kicks with her accuracy...Aggressive player in the center of the field.
2007: Started every game as the team’s defensive midfielder...Once again proved dangerous on corner kicks and set pieces, scoring three goals and posting two assists...Helped VMI to its best defensive season on record...Tallied assists against Navy (9/25) and Radford (10/10) and scored goals against Howard (8/31), South Carolina State (9/9) and Presbyterian (10/21)...Led the team with 36 shots and 21 shots on goal.
2006: Started all but one contest...Collected a goal and an assist in a 5-3 win against Wagner (9/8)...Also scored a goal against Delaware State (9/17), a 3-1 victory...Assisted on the lone goal scored against Charleston Southern (10/21)...Tallied a career-high seven shots against Wagner.
2005: Only Keydet freshman to start every contest...Scored her first collegiate goal against West Virginia Tech on 9/15... Also tallied assists against Chowan (9/21) and Liberty (10/18)...Named to the Big South Conference Presidential Honor Roll.
High School: Four-year letterwinner at Stafford...Scored seven goals and eight assists...A member of the Prince William Eclipse Summer League, the Richmond Strikers Orange team and was a member of the District ODP team in 2003...Was named second team all-district and all-region and was an All-State Honorable Mention honoree in field hockey...Was named to the Academic Honor Roll as a junior and a senior.
Personal: Daughter of Robert and Suzanne Strand...A Biology major.
Strand's 2008 Game-By-Game Stats
Strand's Career Stats