Elena Helming '14 Recruiting Profile

Hi, I'm a 5'5" striker forward.  I'm lean, muscular, and  athletic with speed, the fastest on my teams, have usually been.  I've always been athletic, ran nearly a full 5-K when I was 5.   I beat boys in small-league track and field in 7th and 8th grade, shotput and long jump.   I was a big scorer in community soccer where the ball was pushed out front and I would make breakaways.  High school soccer here hasn't presented many opportunities, I was varsity freshman year in a small Catholic school but transferred to the local big public high school.  It is mostly an academic high school team with not many going on to college and the ball doesn't make it up front as often.  I've had a great experience on a county-level club working especially with a talented big winger I set up, and I am great on one-touch passing. aggressive to turn on defense when the ball turns over etc. which is the college game I've seen in clinics.  I have a good shot and a good finish including the best head on my teams.  I really like the allied health professions college-wise and see myself on my feet working with people.  Current interest occupational therapy but I know I can achieve that in grad school coming from a biology or health sciences or other such degree.  I have a really empathic personality, can read people well, like to have fun.  Appreciate but don't like math.  I like liberal arts approaches to sciences so I can compete with colleagues in allied health fields rather than pre-meds.