Senior Week Spotlight: Miranda Rawlings
October 25, 2016 | Women's Soccer
This week, we celebrate the 2016 senior class for the Washington women's soccer team, leading up to senior day on Sunday October 30th against Oregon State at Husky Soccer Stadium. Today we recognize midfielder Miranda Rawlings who joined the team in 2014 for her sophomore season after transferring from UNLV. A former standout at Mount Si High School, the North Bend, Wash. native has played in 47 total matches in purple and gold, and started in five games. Each of her two assists as a Husky have come against Arizona State, assisting Becca Schoales on a game-winner in 2014, and earlier this month when she sent a cross in to Shannon Simon who scored on a header. Rawlings will graduate with a major in Communications and Marketing this coming December and begin working as a nursing assistant before heading to nursing school next fall.
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What has been your favorite moment while here at UW, both on and off the field?
"My favorite off the field moment was probably when we went to the Sweet 16 my sophomore year. Off the field, it's just been fun doing things with everyone on the team like going out around Seattle and just hanging out with everyone."
As a senior, what advice would you give to a freshman?
"That it's definitely a journey and a really long process, so to be patient. It's never going to get easier but you'll get into a routine and you have to be patient because it's rewarding in the end. In the moment it's hard to see the positive in things but in the end you can look back and see how much good came from it, even though it was a grind, because it's worth it."
What's your plan after graduation?
"I'm graduating this December and then plan on working as a nursing assistant before I start nursing school in the fall."
As a transfer, what brought you to Washington?
"I always wanted to go here, this was where I dreamed of going when I was growing up. But it just didn't work out and I decided to go to UNLV and give it a chance, but when I went there I still wanted to come back to UW."
What will you miss the most about UW and being with the soccer program?
"I'll miss the environment of the team. Everyone gets up and does these workouts to get through these physically hard things, and I feel like I'm never going to have something where we're all working towards the same purpose. It's not necessarily about individuals, it's that we're all doing this together to benefit the team. I feel like that's the only time in your life where you'll all be sacrificing just for each other like that as a team."
