Kayla Wilkes

Position:
Midfield
Class:
Senior
High School:
Wilson
Hometown:
Sinking Spring, Pa.
Major:
Public Health

2025: Started all 17 games… Recorded 49 points with a team-high 38 goals and 11 assists… Posted a team high 60 draw controls to go with 31 ground balls and 17 caused turnovers… Recorded multiple goals in 12 games with eight hat tricks… Scored five goals twice (Queens/William & Mary)… Also notched seven points against the Tribe with two assists… Had a hat trick with nine draw controls, one assist and three ground balls against Duke (3/25)… Had a remarkable day with five points (2g/3a), five draw controls, four ground balls and four caused turnovers against James Madison (4/26)… Had multiple ground balls in 11 games, multiple draw controls in 12 games… Had five-or-more draw controls in six games… Recorded at least one caused turnover in 12 games… Named AAC Midfielder of the Week on April 14… Unanimously named to the American Athletic Conference All-Conference First Team… Earned American Midfielder of the Year accolades, the first in program history to do so.

2024: Started the first seven games of the season before suffering a season-ending injury… Scored 15 goals and contributed 22 draw controls and 17 ground balls… 22 draw controls was a team high at the time of injury… Posted a high of five goals vs. Gardner-Webb (2/14)… Had hat tricks against Furman (2/24) and William & Mary (3/2)… Posted five-or-more draw controls against Queens (2/10), Furman and William & Mary while adding four vs. Gardner-Webb… Contributed multiple ground balls in three games with a high of four in the Gardner-Webb game… Recorded a high of two caused turnovers vs. Navy (2/17)… Final line against Gardner-Webb was five goals, four ground balls, four draw controls and a caused turnover.

2023: Appeared in nine games... Recorded five points on four goals and an assist... Registered two ground balls and a caused turnover... Goals against Radford, George Mason, Furman and Wofford... Assist against Campbell... Made Dean's List in the Fall.

Prep: Team captain and All-Conference honoree as a senior... Team record 170 career draw controls... 171 career goals and 64 assists... Also started for the field hockey team.

Personal: Daughter of Lisa and Mike... Two siblings, Tyler and Courtney... Graduate of Wilson High School.