Savannah Lee Levin (born May 21, 1995) is an American

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

player who played as a defender for Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC in the Swedish

Damallsvenskan The (; ), known as OBOS for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Sweden. It is one of the best women's leagues in the world, and was founded in 1988. The division consists of a league of 14 teams. From 2013, t ...

. She played for the USC Trojans women's soccer team from 2013 to 2016, winning the

2016 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament The 2016 NCAA Division I women's soccer tournament (also known as the 2016 Women's College Cup) was the 35th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA NCAA Division I, Division I women's College soccer in the ...

Early life

Levin's parents are Desmond and Diane Levin. She has a brother, Jay, and an older sister,

Camille Levin Camille Levin Ashton (born Camille Tayla Levin; April 24, 1990) is an American retired professional soccer defender and the current general manager of the NWSL club San Diego Wave FC. Levin Ashton played for the Stanford Cardinal women's socc ...

, who played soccer for the Stanford Cardinal women's soccer team and professionally. She grew up in Newport Coast, California.

Soccer career

In 2012, Levin played for Cal South's team that won the Olympic Development Program national championships in

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. In high school Levin was named league MVP in soccer all four years at Tarbut V' Torah (class of 2013) in

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, where she was a four-time first team all-league selection. Levin played on the USA Women's Soccer Team at the

2013 Maccabiah Games The 19th Maccabiah () were held during July 18 to 30, 2013. The Games brought together 7,500 competing athletes, making it the third-largest international sporting event in the world after the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup. The Maccabiah he ...

in Israel. Levin played at the

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in ...

(USC) from 2013 to 2016, where she was part of the USC Trojans women's soccer team that won the

. As a sophomore in 2014 and as a junior in 2015 she earned

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All-Academic honorable mention. In 2016 she was named All Pac-12 First Team. She majored in psychology. Levin declared for the

2017 NWSL College Draft The 2017 NWSL College Draft was the fifth annual meeting of National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) franchises to select eligible college players. It was held on January 12, 2017 at the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Convention in ...

but was not selected, in February 2017 she signed with Swedish team Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC to play in the

, for whom she played as a midfielder in 2017. In 2018 she was inducted into the

Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame The Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, in Beverly Hills, California, is a hall of fame dedicated to honoring American Jews, American Jewish athletes, other sports personalities, and teams from Southern California who have distingui ...

Honors

USC Trojans *

NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Championship The NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Championship, sometimes known as the Women's College Cup, is an American college soccer tournament conducted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and determines the Division I women's natio ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

References

External links

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USC player profile
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Levin, Savannah 1995 births Living people American women's soccer players Soccer players from Newport Beach, California USC Trojans women's soccer players BK Häcken FF players Damallsvenskan players Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden American people of South African-Jewish descent Jewish American soccer players Women's association football defenders Competitors at the 2013 Maccabiah Games Maccabiah Games competitors for the United States 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American sportswomen Jews from California