Amanda DaCosta Class: Junior Hometown: Katonah, N.Y. High School: Somers Height: 5-4 Position: Midfielder

2007 - Soccer Buzz National Freshman of the Year...joined teammate Sanna Talonen as the first recipients of National Freshman of the Year honors in school history...Soccer Buzz Second Team All-American...Soccer America & Soccer Buzz First Team Freshman All-American...All-ACC Second Team...All-ACC Freshman Team...became only the second Seminole student-athlete to garner a spot on both league teams in the same year (Emma Breland, 2000)...NSCAA All-Region Second Team...Soccer Buzz Southeast Region Freshman of the Year...Soccer Buzz Southeast Region First Team & All-Freshman Team...selected to the ACC All-Tournament and NCAA All-Tournament teams...named to Elite Team of the Week by Soccer Buzz (11/5)...started all 27 games in the Seminole midfield...joined Erin McNulty as the only two freshmen to start every game for FSU in 2007...ranked third on the team with 21 points, third in assists (9) and fourth in goals (6)...nine assists sit second all-time among Seminole freshman...ranked in a tie for seventh in the ACC in assists per game (0.33)...recorded three game-winning goals, good for third on the team and tied for third in the FSU freshman record book...among Seminole players with 10 or more starts, ranked third in shots on goal percentage at .529 (18-for-34)...nine points on three goals and three assist in 10 league games...ranked in the top 10 in ACC games only in assists per game (7th - 0.30) and points per game (9th - 0.90)...both game-winning assists came in league play assisting on goals against Miami and Clemson...tallied her first collegiate point in FSU's 6-1 win over Cal State Northridge assisting on the first goal of the game by Mami Yamaguchi...in the third game of the year against Francis Marion set career-highs with four points and two assists...her goal against the Patriots went down as her first game-winner of the season...at one point in the season, registered at least one point in five of six contests with five of those games coming on the road (10 points - three goals, four assists)...registered three multi-point games against Francis Marion and Wake Forest twice...named to the ACC All-Tournament team after tallying a goal and an assist including the game-winning goal in a semifinal victory over the Demon Deacons...2007 NCAA TOURNAMENT - Started all six games in FSU's run to the national championship game...registered a goal and an assist in the postseason tournament with all three points coming in a 3-2 victory over Notre Dame in the College Cup semifinals...scored the game-winner in the 72nd minute to help lead the Seminoles to their first win in the national semifinals...found Yamaguchi for the game's first goal just 15 seconds into the start of the match...tied a season-high with three shots in the second round against LSU.

U.S. NATIONAL TEAM - Member of the U-17 National Team in 2006...2008 U-20 National Team pool member...competed with the U-20 team at the Cyprus Tournament in March of 2008...played in three games starting one against the Netherlands Full National Team...played a key role in helping the U.S. advance to the championship final against the full Canadian National team.

ODP - Played five years, 2000-05, for both the ENY North ODP team as well as the Region 1 ODP team.

CLUB - New Jersey State Cup Champions (World Class, N.J. Arsenal)...played for Quickstrike FC who advanced to the state semifinals in 2007...member of Soccer Plus Connecticut of the Women's Premier Soccer League during the summer of the 2008.

HIGH SCHOOL - A five-year varsity soccer athlete at Somers High School...earned all-section and all-league honors four times, while receiving league MVP accolades twice during her junior and senior years...was honored with the Con-Edison Award, North County News Player of the Year and Journal News Player of the Year accolades all as a senior...was also named a Parade All-American as well as garnering second team all-State during her senior season...named to the North County News and Journal News first team three times...led her team to the New York High School State semifinals as a senior...helped guide Somers to the League Championship for four straight years, Section Champions as a freshman and senior and finally a Regional Championship as a senior...listed as a top 150 recruit in America by Soccer Buzz in 2007.

ACADEMICS - A member of the Honor Roll for all four years of high schools...was an active member of the Leo's Club as a freshman and a sophomore...served on the Student Council as a freshman and then again as a senior.

PERSONAL - Daughter of Rui and Adelaide DaCosta...major is business management...father was born in Mozambique, Africa and mother was born in Portugal.