Samford University Athletics

Induction Class: 2018
Sport: Soccer

Alyssa Whitehead is the most decorated goalkeeper in Samford history. She is the school’s all-time record-holder in career shutouts with 34, and she registered a season-high 120 saves during her senior campaign in 2011. She started in 50-consecutive matches to close out her career. She shattered the previous career record of 24.5 shutouts during her junior campaign and added six more shutouts as a senior. She also holds Samford’s record for consecutive shutout minutes with 730, which was set Nov. 7, 2008 – Sept. 27, 2009, and she holds every single-season goalkeeping record in school history, including a nation’s-best 0.31 goals-against average in 2009 and 12 shutouts in 2010. She also finished her four-year career with a brilliant 0.74 goals-against average. Upon her graduation from Samford in 2012, Whitehead immediately signed to play professionally in Sweden, where she competed for the next three seasons for Umea Sodra of the Division 1 Norrettan League.