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2022 Women's Soccer Roster
Bruster, Baleigh
Jersey Number 4
Baleigh Bruster
- Height:
- 5-7
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Atlanta, Ga.
Bio
Awards/Honors: All-ACC Academic Team (2023, 2022) ... ACC Honor Roll (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022).
Career: Saw action in 37 matches, while starting 18... helped lead Duke to 17 shutouts over her four years on the pitch.
2024 - Senior: Started the season opener and played in the first three matches, before suffering a lower body injury and missed the remainder of the season ... helped lead the Blue Devils to two shutouts in three matches ... ACC Honor Roll selection.
2023 - Junior: Earned All-ACC Academic Team honors for the second straight year ... started 14-of-15 matches and saw action in 1,208 minutes ... helped lead Duke to five shutouts on the defensive end ... played the full 90 minutes in seven matches ... missed two matches due to injuries ... named to the ACC Honor Roll.
2022 - Sophomore: An All-ACC Academic Team selection ... hampered by injuries for a lot of the season, which limited her to only playing in 12 matches ... made one start against North Carolina (9/8) ... was a part of six team shutouts on the defensive end ... saw action in a season-high 58 minutes against Charlotte (8/28) and played 57 minutes on the road at Syracuse (9/16).
2021 -- Freshman: Made first career start versus Western Carolina (Aug. 26), playing the entire first half ... logged 58 minutes in 2-0 win at Vanderbilt (Aug. 29) ... played 62 minutes in win over No. 10 Stanford (Sept. 2) ... played entire match in win over East Carolina (Sept. 9) ... missed final 14 matches of 2021 season after sustaining knee injury at No. 2 North Carolina (Sept. 17).
Prior to Duke: Ranked as the No. 15 overall recruit by TopDrawerSoccer.com in the 2021 class … listed as the eighth-best defender in the class and No. 1 in the South Atlantic regional ledger … a two-time United Soccer Coaches All-America selection in 2017 and 2019 … played for Tophat Club team in Atlanta area ... attended the Boca Raton, Fla. ODP camp in 2015 and Arizona ODP camp in 2016 ... trained with the U-17 National Team in January and February of 2020 … traveled to Sweden with the U-17 National Team in September of 2019 … trained with the U-17 National Team in June of 2019 … member of the U-17 National Team that went to Portugal in May of 2019 … traveled to England in February of 2019 with the U-18 National Team … competed in the Third Annual U-17 Women's Torneo delle Nazioni with the U.S. U-16 National Team in Italy and Slovenia in 2018 … traveled with the U-16 National Team to China in 2018 … went to Germany with the U-15 National Team in 2017 … trained with the U-14 and U-15 National Teams in 2016 and 2017.
Personal: Full name is Baleigh Bruster … daughter of Sherman and Kathy Bruster … has one sister, Kayla … her sister, Kayla, was a member of the Georgia women's soccer team (2017-21) … member of the National Honors Society as a junior and senior … a three-time Dean Academic Honor Roll selection ... received a degree in psychology from Duke in May of 2025.
Last Updated 8/28/2025
Career: Saw action in 37 matches, while starting 18... helped lead Duke to 17 shutouts over her four years on the pitch.
2024 - Senior: Started the season opener and played in the first three matches, before suffering a lower body injury and missed the remainder of the season ... helped lead the Blue Devils to two shutouts in three matches ... ACC Honor Roll selection.
2023 - Junior: Earned All-ACC Academic Team honors for the second straight year ... started 14-of-15 matches and saw action in 1,208 minutes ... helped lead Duke to five shutouts on the defensive end ... played the full 90 minutes in seven matches ... missed two matches due to injuries ... named to the ACC Honor Roll.
2022 - Sophomore: An All-ACC Academic Team selection ... hampered by injuries for a lot of the season, which limited her to only playing in 12 matches ... made one start against North Carolina (9/8) ... was a part of six team shutouts on the defensive end ... saw action in a season-high 58 minutes against Charlotte (8/28) and played 57 minutes on the road at Syracuse (9/16).
2021 -- Freshman: Made first career start versus Western Carolina (Aug. 26), playing the entire first half ... logged 58 minutes in 2-0 win at Vanderbilt (Aug. 29) ... played 62 minutes in win over No. 10 Stanford (Sept. 2) ... played entire match in win over East Carolina (Sept. 9) ... missed final 14 matches of 2021 season after sustaining knee injury at No. 2 North Carolina (Sept. 17).
Prior to Duke: Ranked as the No. 15 overall recruit by TopDrawerSoccer.com in the 2021 class … listed as the eighth-best defender in the class and No. 1 in the South Atlantic regional ledger … a two-time United Soccer Coaches All-America selection in 2017 and 2019 … played for Tophat Club team in Atlanta area ... attended the Boca Raton, Fla. ODP camp in 2015 and Arizona ODP camp in 2016 ... trained with the U-17 National Team in January and February of 2020 … traveled to Sweden with the U-17 National Team in September of 2019 … trained with the U-17 National Team in June of 2019 … member of the U-17 National Team that went to Portugal in May of 2019 … traveled to England in February of 2019 with the U-18 National Team … competed in the Third Annual U-17 Women's Torneo delle Nazioni with the U.S. U-16 National Team in Italy and Slovenia in 2018 … traveled with the U-16 National Team to China in 2018 … went to Germany with the U-15 National Team in 2017 … trained with the U-14 and U-15 National Teams in 2016 and 2017.
Personal: Full name is Baleigh Bruster … daughter of Sherman and Kathy Bruster … has one sister, Kayla … her sister, Kayla, was a member of the Georgia women's soccer team (2017-21) … member of the National Honors Society as a junior and senior … a three-time Dean Academic Honor Roll selection ... received a degree in psychology from Duke in May of 2025.
Last Updated 8/28/2025
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