Defender/Midfielder
5-6
Mission San Jose High School
Bay Oaks Soccer Club
A MVAL First Team All League player from Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, Lica is an outstanding center back and center midfielder. The four-year letter winner in both soccer and track is captain of the two-time league champion Warriors. The NCS Scholar Athlete also helped lead the team to an NCS appearance in 2010. The Warriors are coached by Stephanie Cockrill. Lica plays her club soccer for Bay Oaks and coach Katie Teekell who were State Cup Quarter-Finalists in 2010. Lica is planning on majoring in Kineseology. Her parents are Heidi and Hideki.
Coach Bolton: Lica is going to be an terrific college soccer player. She is a very complete central player who does everything well. She is the type of player that can go unnoticed in games because she is so steady and makes things look so easy. But make no mistake she is doing all the hard work and making everyone around her better.
Fun Fact: Her name Lica or Rika (in Japanese) is the name of a popular Barbie doll in Japan. Lica owns two of those dolls.
