Soccer | 8/1/2022 10:00:00 AM

ITTA BENA, Miss. – Next on this year's countdown of Mississippi Valley State's 15 most memorable individual moments of the 2021-22 athletic calendar is moment number seven as goalkeeper Mckenzie McCarthy ended the 2021 season ranked first in the NCAA regarding both saves per game (12.58) and total saves (151).
 
McCarthy has now held the top spot nationally in the past two campaigns the Devlettes have competed in (2019 & 2021, opted out in 2020) for those same categories, snagging a Division I high 155 saves for an average of 11.07 per match.
 
The netminder from Olive Branch, Mississippi set career-bests in both shots faced and saves in the match at Louisiana-Monroe on September 15 last year, recording 61 and 24, respectively.
 
Over her 33-game stint in the Mississippi Delta, she has logged 2,841 minutes and 47 seconds of action with 29 complete games, three wins plus two ties while combatting shots fired at the goal.
 
Among all active players at the NCAA Division I level, she is number one in terms of career saves average (8.11) and seventh for total career saves (357).
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