2024 Women's Soccer Roster

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12 Karlie Lema

  • Position Forward
  • Height 5-10
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Morgan Hill, Calif.
  • High School Live Oak HS

Biography

Career Highlights
  • 2025 ACC Offensive Player of the Year
  • First Team All-ACC (2025)
  • National Player of the Week (9/10/25)
  • Pac-12 All-Freshman Team (2021)
  • All-Pac-12 Third Team (2023)
  • Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week
  • 2x Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll selections
  • All-ACC Academic Team selection (2025)
As a Senior (2024): Had one of the best individual performances in program history... Named ACC Offensive Player of the Year and First Team All-ACC... Ranked third in the nation with 16 goals and second with 38 points when the regular season ended...Her 16 goals rank fourth on the program's single-season scoring list and her 38 points rank fifth...Paced the ACC in points per game (2.00) and shots on goal per game (2.47), while ranking second in goals per game (0.84) and shots per game (4.21)... Had five multi-goal efforts including her first career hat trick vs Nevada (9/4)...Scored in back-to-back games four times...Had four game winners... Put 48 shots on frame with a team-best .565 SOG percentage... Reached 31 career goals which is tied for 6th on the all-time list...Named to the All-ACC Academic Team.

Signed her first professional contract with Bay FC in December.

As a Junior (2023): Named Third Team All-Pac-12... Played and started in 16 matches with 1,141 minutes logged... Led the team with a career-high four assists and 12 points... Ranked second on the team with four goals including one game-winner...Led the team with 31 shots and 16 shots on goal... Named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll.

As a Sophomore (2022): Made a career-high 21 appearances and 17 starts... Logged a career-high 1,351 minutes...Ranked second on the team with five goals, 12 points, 51 shots, and 21 shots on goal...Had two game winners... Named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll.

As a Freshman (2021): Played in all 18 contests, while making 15 starts as a freshman... Led the Bears with six goals and 12 points... Recorded four game winning goals including the only goal of the game in Cal wins over USF, Utah and Arizona... Also scored in Cal's 2-0 wins over Long Beach State and Portland... Started Cal's comeback from a 2-0 deficit vs. Colorado with a goal... Recorded 1164 minutes, which ranks sixth on the team... Led the team with 44 shots and 19 shots on goal... Named to the Pac-12 All-Freshman Team. 

International: Named to the U.S. U-17 National Team Camp on five occasions in 2019 and 2020… Competed with the team at the 2019 UEFA Development Tournament in the Czech Republic… Called into the US U-15 National Team Camp twice in 2018… Played at the CFA Tournament in China with the US U-15 WNT.
 
Club Ball: Played club ball for for MVLA… Named to the ECNL U16 Northwest All-Conference Team

High School: Three-time MVP of the Blossom Valley High School Soccer League… Named Freshman of the Year for the Central Conference Section in 2017-18… Named Junior of the Year for the Central Conference Section in 2019-20… Also competed in track and volleyball in high school… Competed in the Junior Olympics in track taking third place in the 200m hurdles and fifth place in the long jump in 2017.

Personal:  Daughter of Annie Bergholz and Dave Lema… Her mom ran track at the University of Northern Colorado… Lists her hobbies as hiking, playing sports and adventuring.  

Major: Intends to major in Sociology at Cal

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Historical Player Information

  • 12

    2021Freshman

    Forward
    5'10"
    12
  • 12

    2022Sophomore

    Forward
    5'10"
    12
  • 12

    2023Junior

    Forward
    5'10"
    12
  • 12

    2024Senior

    Forward
    5'10"
    12