Jessica Carnevale
Jessica Carnevale

Player Profile
Class:
Senior

Hometown:
Princeton, N.J.

High School:
West Windsor-Plainsboro

Height:
5-4

Position:
Midfield

Birthdate:
07/19/1988

Awards: BIG EAST Academic All Star (2008).

Career: Appeared in 56 games with 35 starts ... Has six goals, three assists and 15 points ... Tallied one game-winning goal, when she scored both tallies in a 2-0 win over Pittsburgh in 2006 ... Recorded 48 shots with 23 shots on goal for a .125 shot percentage and a .479 shot on-goal percentage ... Two career multi-goal games, with one each as a freshman and a sophomore.

BIG EAST Regular Season: Played in 29 games with 22 starts ... Totaled three goals and six points, with one game-winning goal ... Registered 30 shots and 16 shots on goal ... Has a .100 shot percentage and a .533 shot on-goal percentage ... Scored the first two goals of her career in a 2-0 win over Pittsburgh in 2006 ... Netted lone Villanova goal in 2-1 loss at Cincinnati in 2008.

BIG EAST Championship: Has played in three games with two starts in Big East Championship play ... Registered one shot in a 2-0 win over USF in the quarterfinals of the 2007 tournament ... Appeared in quarterfinal games against Marquette in 2006 and West Virginia in 2007.

NCAA Tournament: Came off the bench in both of the Wildcats games in the 2006 NCAA Tournament against Toledo and Penn State ... Registered an assist in a 5-1 first-round victory over the Rockets.

2008: One of only eight players that appeared in all 19 games for Villanova, making 17 starts ... Ranked sixth on the team with 1,306 minutes played ... Tallied two goals and four points ... Recorded 16 shots and nine shots on goal ... Scored goals against Hofstra and Cincinnati; BIG EAST: Started 10 of 11 regular season games and notched one goal on 11 shots, including six shots on goal.

2007: Played in all 21 games and earned 15 starts ... Notched two goals and two assists for six points ... Netted both goals and dished out one of the helpers in an 11-0 win over St. Peter's ... Also had an assist in a win over Penn; BIG EAST: Played in all 11 regular season games and had nine starts ... Took 16 shots and had eight shots on goal; BIG EAST CHAMPIONSHIP: Started against both USF and West Virginia in the first round and quarterfinals of the conference tournament.

2006: Saw action in 16 games and made three starts ... Tallied two goals and one assist for five points ... Scored just 23 seconds into second half against Pittsburgh to break a scoreless tie with her first collegiate goal ... Had just six shots total on the season and only one other shot on-goal aside from her two scoring tallies; BIG EAST: Played in seven games with three starts, netting a pair of goals on her only two shots on goal; BIG EAST CHAMPIONSHIP: Came off the bench during quarterfinal game against Marquette; NCAA TOURNAMENT: Saw time in games against Toledo and Penn State in the tournament ... Recorded an assist in a 5-1 win over the Rockets in the first round.

Club Team and ODP Experience: Club team is Parsippany Gazelles ... Won a national championship in the Super-20 League during the summer of 2007 ... Has also won State Cup, Region I and Y-League titles ... Played ODP from 2001 to 2005.

West Windsor-Plainsboro High School: One of 20 players named to all-state and All-Central teams ... Selected four straight years from 2002-05 ... Adidas All-Region pick from 2003-05 ... Mercer 33 selection from 2002-05 and four-time All-CVC first team choice each of those years ... Voted a first team performer by the Trenton Times/Trentonian all four years ... Princeton Packet Player of the Year in 2004 and 2005 ... Gatorade Rookie of the Year in 2002 ... WWPHSN Most Valuable Player 2002-05 ... Team was Patriot Division champions.

Personal: Born 7/19/88 in Princeton, N.J. ... Oldest of four children of Gary and Mary Ann Carnevale ... Siblings are Courtney (17), A.J. (15) and Catherine (9) ... Chose Villanova because of its comfortable location and environment ... Majoring in Geography.

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