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2022 Women's Soccer Roster
Rader, Kat
Jersey Number 2
Kat Rader
- Height:
- 5-7
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Stuart, Fla.
Bio
Awards/Honors: Preseason United Soccer Coaches Forwards to Watch (2025) ... United Soccer Coaches Second-Team All-Region (2023) ... All-ACC Second Team (2023, 2022) ... ACC Freshman of the Year (2022) ... TopDrawerSoccer Freshman Best XI First Team (2022) ... College Soccer News All-Freshman First Team (2022) ... United Soccer Coaches Third-Team All-Region (2022) ... ACC All-Tournament Team (2022) ... College Sports Communicators Academic All-District (2023) ... All-ACC Academic Team (2023, 2022) ... ACC Honor Roll (2025, 2024, 2023).
U.S. Soccer: Member of U.S. Youth National Team pool since 2018 (U-14, U-15, U-16, U-18, U-20) … traveled with the U-20 squad to Colombia in February of 2024 ... trained with the U-20 National Team in January of 2024 ... competed in two friendly matches against Costa Rica with the U-20 Women’s National Team in May of 2022, leading the team with three goals in the two matches … competed at UEFA Development Tournament in England as member of U-16 National Team in February of 2020 … traveled to Netherlands for international friendlies with U-16 WNT in June of 2019 … member of championship winning U-15 WNT at CONCACAF Tournament in August of 2018
2025 -- Redshirt Junior: Preseason United Soccer Coaches Forwards to Watch list.
2024 -- Junior: Appeared in four matches, before suffering a season-ending lower body injury ... had started all four matches before being injured, while totaling one goal and one assist ... scored her lone goal against UNC Wilmington in a 4-0 win ... added an assist in a 3-0 victory on the road at Nebraska ... a preseason United Soccer Coaches Forwards to Watch list selection ... a preseason All-ACC Team honoree ... named to ACC Honor Roll.
2023 -- Sophomore: United Soccer Coaches Second-Team All-Region ... All-ACC Second Team ... All-ACC Academic Team ... ACC Honor Roll selection ... College Sports Communicators Academic All-District ... started all 16 matches at forward ... led Duke with seven goals and 16 points ... added two assists ... attempted a team-high 45 shots, 18 of which were on goal ... collected game-winning goals against West Virginia, Wisconsin and East Carolina ... registered goals in each of the first three matches to open the season ... she became the sixth Blue Devil to score goals in each of the first three games to start a season ... totaled the game-tying goal against No. 1 North Carolina with a minute remaining in regulation ... also added goals against Pittsburgh, Notre Dame and Southern California ... saw action in 1,316 minutes and played the full 90 minutes on seven occasions ... preseason All-ACC selection ... tabbed the Duke Student-Athlete of the Week on Oct. 9.
2022 -- Freshman: One of the top rookies in the nation ... started 20-of-23 matches ... ACC Freshman of the Year ... United Soccer Coaches Third-Team All-Region ... College Soccer News All-Freshman First Team ... TopDrawerSoccer Freshman Best XI First Team ... ACC All-Tournament Team ... All-ACC Second Team ... led all freshmen in the ACC with 12 goals and ranked tied for second nationally among freshmen ... her 29 points led all freshmen nationally ... finished the season ranked No. 2 on the TopDrawerSoccer top-100 freshman list ... TopDrawerSoccer National Player of the Week and Team of the Week (11/1) ... College Soccer News Team of the Week (11/1) ... TopDrawerSoccer Honorable Mention Team of the Week (8/30) ... tallied 12 goals, five assists and 29 points on the year ... the 12 goals tied a Duke freshman record, while her 29 points ranked tied for second for Duke rookies ... attempted 64 shots, which ranked as the seventh-most by a Blue Devil freshman ... registered five game-winning goals, which ranked as the tied for fifth-most in a single season in Duke history and tied for second on the freshman charts ... teamed with Michelle Cooper to score 31 goals on the season, which ranks as the second-highest scoring tandem in Duke history ... scored eight goals against ACC opponents, while adding goals against nationally ranked Tennessee (8/25) and TCU (9/4) ... posted a career-best four points against Louisville (10/23) and Wake Forest (10/6) as she notched braces ... all five of her assists came against nationally-ranked opponents ... in the ACC ranked, sixth in points (29), sixth in goals (12) and ninth in shots (64) ... her 12 goals ranked 25th nationally and points were 26th ... her five game-winning goals ranked second in the ACC and 13th nationally.
Prior to Duke: Ranked as the No. 5 overall prospect in the class of 2022 by TopDrawerSoccer.com … rated the No. 3 forward in the class and No. 2 player from the state of Florida behind fellow Duke signee Carina Lageyre … scored 42 goals in 23 matches in 2021-22 season with Florida United U19 Girls Academy team … netted 67 goals in 30 games in 2020-21 season with Weston FC U19 Girls Academy team … scored 32 goals in 14 games during COVID-shortened 2019-20 season with Weston FC U17 team – the most goals in all U.S. Soccer Development Academy age groups … served as a team captain during 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons.
Personal: Full name is Katherine Rader … daughter of Matt & Christine Rader … has two brothers, Jacob and Will, and one sister, Morgan … her grandfather, Doug Rader, played professional baseball from 1967-77 with Houston, San Diego and Toronto … he was also a manager of the Texas Rangers (1983-85), Chicago White Sox (1986) and California Angels (1986-91) … her uncle, Mac Walker, walked onto the Duke football team in 1989-90 … one of only 12 students out of 335 who finished with a 4.0 in high school … AP Scholar with Distinction all four years ... at Duke in the Fall of 2023, Spring of 2024 and Fall of 2024 earned Dean's List with Distinction at Duke ... majoring in psychology.
Last Updated 8/28/2025
U.S. Soccer: Member of U.S. Youth National Team pool since 2018 (U-14, U-15, U-16, U-18, U-20) … traveled with the U-20 squad to Colombia in February of 2024 ... trained with the U-20 National Team in January of 2024 ... competed in two friendly matches against Costa Rica with the U-20 Women’s National Team in May of 2022, leading the team with three goals in the two matches … competed at UEFA Development Tournament in England as member of U-16 National Team in February of 2020 … traveled to Netherlands for international friendlies with U-16 WNT in June of 2019 … member of championship winning U-15 WNT at CONCACAF Tournament in August of 2018
2025 -- Redshirt Junior: Preseason United Soccer Coaches Forwards to Watch list.
2024 -- Junior: Appeared in four matches, before suffering a season-ending lower body injury ... had started all four matches before being injured, while totaling one goal and one assist ... scored her lone goal against UNC Wilmington in a 4-0 win ... added an assist in a 3-0 victory on the road at Nebraska ... a preseason United Soccer Coaches Forwards to Watch list selection ... a preseason All-ACC Team honoree ... named to ACC Honor Roll.
2023 -- Sophomore: United Soccer Coaches Second-Team All-Region ... All-ACC Second Team ... All-ACC Academic Team ... ACC Honor Roll selection ... College Sports Communicators Academic All-District ... started all 16 matches at forward ... led Duke with seven goals and 16 points ... added two assists ... attempted a team-high 45 shots, 18 of which were on goal ... collected game-winning goals against West Virginia, Wisconsin and East Carolina ... registered goals in each of the first three matches to open the season ... she became the sixth Blue Devil to score goals in each of the first three games to start a season ... totaled the game-tying goal against No. 1 North Carolina with a minute remaining in regulation ... also added goals against Pittsburgh, Notre Dame and Southern California ... saw action in 1,316 minutes and played the full 90 minutes on seven occasions ... preseason All-ACC selection ... tabbed the Duke Student-Athlete of the Week on Oct. 9.
2022 -- Freshman: One of the top rookies in the nation ... started 20-of-23 matches ... ACC Freshman of the Year ... United Soccer Coaches Third-Team All-Region ... College Soccer News All-Freshman First Team ... TopDrawerSoccer Freshman Best XI First Team ... ACC All-Tournament Team ... All-ACC Second Team ... led all freshmen in the ACC with 12 goals and ranked tied for second nationally among freshmen ... her 29 points led all freshmen nationally ... finished the season ranked No. 2 on the TopDrawerSoccer top-100 freshman list ... TopDrawerSoccer National Player of the Week and Team of the Week (11/1) ... College Soccer News Team of the Week (11/1) ... TopDrawerSoccer Honorable Mention Team of the Week (8/30) ... tallied 12 goals, five assists and 29 points on the year ... the 12 goals tied a Duke freshman record, while her 29 points ranked tied for second for Duke rookies ... attempted 64 shots, which ranked as the seventh-most by a Blue Devil freshman ... registered five game-winning goals, which ranked as the tied for fifth-most in a single season in Duke history and tied for second on the freshman charts ... teamed with Michelle Cooper to score 31 goals on the season, which ranks as the second-highest scoring tandem in Duke history ... scored eight goals against ACC opponents, while adding goals against nationally ranked Tennessee (8/25) and TCU (9/4) ... posted a career-best four points against Louisville (10/23) and Wake Forest (10/6) as she notched braces ... all five of her assists came against nationally-ranked opponents ... in the ACC ranked, sixth in points (29), sixth in goals (12) and ninth in shots (64) ... her 12 goals ranked 25th nationally and points were 26th ... her five game-winning goals ranked second in the ACC and 13th nationally.
Prior to Duke: Ranked as the No. 5 overall prospect in the class of 2022 by TopDrawerSoccer.com … rated the No. 3 forward in the class and No. 2 player from the state of Florida behind fellow Duke signee Carina Lageyre … scored 42 goals in 23 matches in 2021-22 season with Florida United U19 Girls Academy team … netted 67 goals in 30 games in 2020-21 season with Weston FC U19 Girls Academy team … scored 32 goals in 14 games during COVID-shortened 2019-20 season with Weston FC U17 team – the most goals in all U.S. Soccer Development Academy age groups … served as a team captain during 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons.
Personal: Full name is Katherine Rader … daughter of Matt & Christine Rader … has two brothers, Jacob and Will, and one sister, Morgan … her grandfather, Doug Rader, played professional baseball from 1967-77 with Houston, San Diego and Toronto … he was also a manager of the Texas Rangers (1983-85), Chicago White Sox (1986) and California Angels (1986-91) … her uncle, Mac Walker, walked onto the Duke football team in 1989-90 … one of only 12 students out of 335 who finished with a 4.0 in high school … AP Scholar with Distinction all four years ... at Duke in the Fall of 2023, Spring of 2024 and Fall of 2024 earned Dean's List with Distinction at Duke ... majoring in psychology.
Last Updated 8/28/2025
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