Women’s Soccer Adds Four for Fall 2021

HONOLULU – Chaminade University women's soccer head coach Michelle Richardson announced Friday the additions of four recruits for the 2021 fall season.
 

Leila-Jayne Casison is from Waipahu High School in Waipahu, O'ahu, Hawai'i and was an 2020 All-O'ahu Interscholastic Association honorable mention selection in her junior year. The forward played for the Hawai'i Rush Soccer Club which captured the MISO Junior League Tournament in October 2019.

 

Gracie Knowd is a transfer from Division I New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, N.M., where she logged 18 minutes against Chicago State during the Spring 2021 season. Knowd prepped at Ramona High School in Ramona, Calif., where she was a multi-sport standout in track and cross country, in addition to earning all-San Diego league soccer honors as a senior in 2019. The 5-foot-6 midfielder was also the team's Most Valuable Player that year while winning the CIF Sportsmanship Award in 2018 and '19.
 
 

Wahiawa native Shayla Padilla is a transfer who has played the last four years at Division I Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla., and comes to Chaminade as a fifth-year graduate transfer. A 2017 alumnae of Leilehua High School where she was an All-OIA honorable mention selection her senior season, the 5-6 midfielder started 42 of 56 career games for the Golden Eagles, scoring five career goals with seven career assists. During her junior season, Padilla notched four goals and five assists, finishing second on the team with 13 points. She started all 14 matches as a senior during ORU's spring 2021 season.







 

Morgan Smith is a midfielder from Skyview High School in Vancouver, Wash. The incoming freshman is a two-time All-Greater St. Helen's League 4A selection and won the Scholar-Athlete Award all four years in high school. Smith played her club soccer with the FC Salmon Creek Soccer Club.
 









The Silverswords are coming off a 1-0-3 spring season where they captured the Pacific West Conference Hawai'i Pod title, the program's first-ever intercollegiate soccer championship.
 
The 'Swords have 21 veterans returning in the fall including Spring 2021 PacWest Player of the Year Randi Fontes (Pearl City, O'ahu, Hawai'i/Hawai'i/Pearl City HS) who elected to use the season-of-competition waiver that grants all student-athletes a fifth year of athletic eligibility. Fontes, who has 13 career goals, is just three away from breaking the school record set by Caitlin Tatemichi.
 
Richardson, the conference's Coach of the Year, also returns PacWest Newcomer of the Year Hoku Schatz (Hau'ula, O'ahu, Hawai'i/Idaho/Kahuku HS) and Naomi Takata (Pearl City, O'ahu, Hawai'i/Pearl City), a two-year starter at goalkeeper who is one win away from tying Lauren Ishii for second all-time in wins.