Christopher Newport University

2021 - Junior Season - First defender to earn All-American honors in CNU women's soccer history, collecting second team D3soccer.com plaudits ... Named the NCAA Division III National Championship's Most Outstanding Defender after helping CNU register five shutouts in tournament play ... Centerpiece of the most dominant defense in program history and earned first team All-Region, All-State, and All-Conference honors ... Named Virginia State Defensive Player of the Year ... Led defense that shattered program records for shutouts, goals-against average, and save percentage ... Defense held opponents to just 3.3 shots on-goal per game ... Established third longest shutout streak in program history ... Named to the C2C All-Tournament team ... Also selected as C2C Academic All-Conference for the third time

2020 - Sophomore Season - Did not appear during her second season at CNU following a decision by the NCAA and Capital Athletic Conference to suspend athletic competitions due to the COVID-19 pandemic ... Repeat selection to the Conference All-Academic Team

2019 -- Freshman Season -- Helped improve the depth of the Christopher Newport defense in her first year with the Captains ... Appeared in 17 games while making six starts as part of arguably the finest defense in program history ... Played in 12 of the record-tying 15 shutouts ... Contributed to program record to 0.53 goals against average ... Scored three goals for six points ... Made collegiate debut against Westfield State on August 30 ... Scored first career goal against Luther on August 31 ... Also notched scores against Emory and at Southern Virginia ... Played in a season-high 79 minutes against Dickinson on September 8 ... Named to Capital Athletic Conference All-Academic Team.

At Colonial Forge -- Member of the National Honor Society ... Also played club soccer for five years with the NVSC ... Earned two state cup championship titles and two NPL championship titles

Personal -- Jillian Grace McDonald was born in Monterey, Calif. ... Daughter of Jim and Sydney McDonald goes by the nickname "Jill" ... Has one sister, Kenzie, and three brothers, Jake, Grant, and Jack ... Favorite sports personality is Julie Ertz ... Person in history she'd most like to meet is Mother Theresa ... Most impressive person met is her great grandpa ... Dream vacation is a trip to Fiji ... Favorite food is chocolate covered pretzels ... Favorite movie is "10 Things I Hate About You" and favorite TV show is "Friends" ... Favorite author is Nicholas Sparks ... Favorite musician is Keith Urban ... Majoring in Psychology and aspires to be an occupational therapist.