Walker Gillespie

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Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast

Photo by: Beverly Schaefer

Position:
Forward
Height:
6-3
Weight:
185
Class:
Junior
Hometown:
Charlotte, N.C.
High School:
Charlotte Country Day

2023: Appeared in 12 matches, making 9 starts ... Accrued a total of 8 points ... Scored three goals and stated two assists ... Scored first goal of the season as one of four distinct goal scorers against Monmouth (9/26) ... Notched goals in two of the last three games of the season versus Fordham (10/24) and at Penn (11/4)

2022: College Sports Communicators Academic All-District ... Played in all 16 matches, drawing the start in nine ... Second on the team in scoring with 13 points ... Scored six goals and added one assist ... Scored game-winner at Dartmouth (10/1) ... Notched a hat trick at Virginia Tech (10/18) ... Scored at Brown (10/30) ... Posted a goal and an assist against Harvard (11/5).

2021: Honorable mention All-Ivy ... Appeared in all 18 matches, making 10 starts ... Third on team in scoring with eight points (4G) ... Scored against Fairfield (9/15) ... Tallied a goal at Dartmouth (10/2) ... Scored in back-to-back games against Cornell (10/30) and at Penn (11/6) ... Goal in the 85' against the Quakers clinched an Ivy League championship.

2020: Season cancelled due to COVID-19.

2019: First-team All-Region ... First-Team All-Ivy ... CollegeSoccerNews.com All-Freshman Team ... TopDrawerSoccer Top-100 Freshmen ... Three-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week ... Earned one Ivy League Player of the Week honor ... Played in 17 matches, earning the start in 14 ... Finished with 1,179 minutes ... Led team in goals (7), points (15), shots (34) and shots on goal (16) ... Scored first collegiate goal against Rider, adding an assist (9/11) ... Scored in back-to-back games against Monmouth (9/18) and FDU (9/21) ... Scored twice against Saint Joseph's (10/1) ... Netted a goal against Virginia Tech (10/29) ... Scored against Cornell (11/2).

Awards
Honorable Mention All-Ivy (2021)
First-Team All-Region (2019)
First-Team All-Ivy (2019)
CollegeSoccerNews.com All-Freshman Team (2019)
TopDrawerSoccer Top-100 Freshmen (2019)
Ivy League Player of the Week (11/3/19)
Ivy League Rookie of the Week (9/15/19, 9/22/19, 11/3/19)

Before Princeton: Played club with the Charlotte Eagles ... Won 2017 U17 National Cup championship ... Played in High School All-American Game ... Named NCISAA 4A State Player of the Year while playing for Charlotte Country Day ... Had 25 goals in 19 games with Charlotte Country Day ... Named first-team All-State and first-team All-Region ... Charlotte Observer Boys' Player of the Year ... Greater Charlotte Soccer Gala Player of the Year ... Also played basketball ... National Merit Scholar ... AP Scholar.

Personal: Son of Sinclair and David Gillespie ... Twin brother, Richard, plays soccer at the University of Chicago.