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(Redirected from Alexis Missimo) American soccer player (born 2003)
Lexi Missimo
Missimo with Texas in 2024
Personal information
Full name Alexis Missimo
Date of birth (2003-01-30) January 30, 2003 (age 21)
Place of birth Grapevine, Texas, U.S.
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team Texas Longhorns
Number 10
Youth career
2008–2020 Solar SC
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2020–2024 Texas Longhorns 89 (56)
International career
2016 United States U-14
2017 United States U-15
2018–2020 United States U-17
2021–2022 United States U-20 7 (3)
2023–2024 United States U-23
2025 United States Women's Futures Camp

Alexis Missimo (born January 30, 2003) is a former American college soccer player who played as a midfielder for the Texas Longhorns. She has represented the United States at the youth international level. She received TopDrawerSoccer national player of the year honors with the Longhorns in 2023.

Early life

Missimo played youth soccer for Solar SC of Dallas, Texas, beginning at age five. She helped win the USYS national under-13 championship in 2016 and reached the ECNL under-15 national championship game the next year. Between 2017 and 2019, Missimo scored 100 goals in 62 games in the Girls' Development Academy. Playing up four age groups in 2017–18, she led the Solar under-18/19 team in goals and helped them reach the national championship game, receiving conference Best XI recognition. She led Solar to win the national under-16/17 championship in 2019, receiving the Golden Boot as the playoffs' top scorer with 11 goals and being named the region's player of the year. She was a two-time United Soccer Coaches All-American (2018–2019) at the youth level.

College career

Missimo verbally committed to Texas when she was in seventh grade. She was the number one recruit for the class of 2021, but elected to graduate from Southlake Carroll High School in three years in 2020 and enrolled at the University of Texas in the fall of that year. She had offers to go pro out of high school from Arsenal and Manchester City, the latter of which she had trained with. She scored in her college debut on March 5, 2021, a 4–0 win over Texas State. She scored two goals in a 4–0 win over Baylor on March 31. She finished the abbreviated spring season with three goals and two assists in three games.

Missimo started all 22 games during her freshman fall season in 2021, recording nine goals and 14 assists. Her assist total led the Big 12 Conference and tied the Texas program record for assists in a season. She was named the Big 12 Conference Freshman of the Year and recognized with All-Big 12 first-team, Big 12 all-tournament, and Big 12 All-Freshman honors.

During her sophomore season in 2022, Missimo played in 17 games after suffering an injury early in the season that forced her to miss six games. Despite the absence, she led the Big 12 and set the Texas program record for assists in a season with 15, which ranked third in NCAA Division I that season. Texas won the Big 12 regular season championship and reached the conference tournament semifinals. Missimo contributed an assist in the Longhorns' first-round NCAA tournament win over Texas A&M, and the team's season ended a 1–0 loss to Duke in the next round.

In her third full season with Texas in 2023, Missimo earned All-American honors and was named the TopDrawerSoccer National Player of the Year. She scored 26 goals and recorded 20 assists. She became the first player in the history of the Texas program to record a 20–20 season. She led the Big 12 in goals, assists, and points for the season.

Missimo continued her record breaking career during her senior year. She was named United Soccer Coaches Second Team All-American, was a MAC Hermann Trophy Semifinalist, a United Soccer Coaches All-Southeast First Team, Top Drawer Soccer Best XI Third Team, a SEC All-Tournament Selection, All-SEC First Team - MF, and became Texas' leader in career goals with her 53rd career goal in the 56th minute of the Longhorns' 3-1 victory at LSU on Oct. 13. Missimo played 99.3 percent (2,077) of 2,092 possible minutes, including every minute of the last 21 consecutive matches. Missimo tied a program record with one point in nine consecutive matches, scored a goal in five consecutive matches, and was credited with at least one point in five of Texas' six postseason matches. Missimo recorded at least one point in 20 of the Longhorns' 23 matches throughout the season, in which Texas concluded the season with a 16-3-1 record when Missimo was credited with a point during the 2024 campaign. Missimo gave the assist on Carly Montgomery's game-winning goal in Texas' 1-0 win over South Carolina to win the program's first-ever SEC championship. Missimo was a contributing factor (either by scoring the goal or assisting on the goal) on 49 percent (25-51) of Texas' goal total on the season, and was the only women's soccer student-athlete in the SEC to finish the season with 10-or-more (12) goals scored and being credited with 10-or-more (13) assists. Missimo finished tied for first in the SEC in assists (13) second in total points (37), second in points per match (1.61), second in assists per game (0.57), and tied for fourth in goals scored (12). Her 13 assists were tied for the second most in all of Division I women's soccer, while her 0.57 assists per match total was the 10th-highest average and her 37 total points were the 12th most in the country. Missimo became the first American-born Division I women's soccer student-athlete to join the 50-goal, 50-assist club since the 2012 season.

University of Texas Career Accomplishments & Accolades

A consensus five-star recruit at the midfield position and the country's No. 1 overall recruit, Missimo went on to play 7,871:30 career minutes throughout 89 career appearances on the pitch during her career on the Forty Acres. Missimo concluded her collegiate women's soccer career as Texas' leader in career points (176), assists (64), goals (56) in addition to being the program's single-season leader in points (72, 2023), goals (26, 2023), assists (20, 2023), game-winning goals (9, 2023), penalty kicks (9, 2023) shots (126, 2023). She finished her career tied for 10th on the NCAA Division I women's soccer career assist list with 64 and became the first student-athlete in Big 12 Conference and Texas history to have a 20-goal, 20-assist season after having 26 goals, 20 assists throughout the 2023 campaign. Missimo became just the fifth Division I women's soccer student-athlete since 2000 to score 72-or-more points in a single season after having 72, which were tied as the 15th-most points scored in a single season in Division I women's soccer history, and became the first student-athlete in Big 12 Conference history to lead the league in every individual statistical categories: goals, goals per match, assists, assists per match, game-winning goals, points and points per match in a single season (2023). Missimo was a four-time first team all-conference honoree, four-time all-tournament selection, and was appointed to four United Soccer Coaches All-Region First Teams - the first Texas women's soccer student-athlete to achieve the feat since Kasey Moore (2005-08).

Missimo earned 2024 United Soccer Coaches Second Team All-American, 2023 United Soccer Coaches, College Soccer News, Top Drawer Soccer First Team All-American, 2023 Top Drawer Soccer National Player of the Year, was a two-time MAC Hermann Trophy Semifinalist (2023, 2024), a four-time Top Drawer Soccer Best XI honoree, the 2023 Big 12 Midfielder of the Year, the 2021 Big 12 Freshman of the Year, and became the 21st student-athlete in NCAA Division I women's soccer history to score 50-or-more career goals and be credited with 50-or-more career assists. Missimo was credited with at least one point in 64 of her 89 (71.9 percent) career matches, and Texas was 34-2-2 when Missimo scored a goal and 10-1-0 when she was credited with a brace. Missimo was one of six student-athletes to tie the program's single-match goals scored (4) record, tied the program's single-match assists (4) record and is the only student-athlete in program history to have multiple (4) 4-assist matches. She tied the program's single-match points (10) record with a three-goal, four-assist performance on Sept. 7, 2023, and set the program's record for consecutive matches played with an assist with seven. Missimo was the 2021 & 2022 Goal NXGN Top World Ranked Football of the Year, and completed the USYNT Cycle (32 camps from U14 to U23).

Source: University of Texas Bio

International career

Missimo began training with the United States youth national team at the under-14 level in March 2016. She made her international debut at the youth level on May 12, 2017, with the national under-16 team in a 4–0 win over Croatia. She scored her first youth international goal for the under-15 team against Germany on November 1, 2017. She and club teammate Trinity Byars led the under-16 team with five goals each at the Torneo delle Nazioni in 2018, which they won.

Missimo played up two age groups with the national under-17 team in the lead-up to the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, but did not make the roster for the World Cup. She was a key player in the build-up to the 2021 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, scoring three goals and adding two assists in two tournaments in Europe in 2019. She had both assists in the 2–0 win over England in Florida on February 22, 2020, which was the final game for the team before the qualifying event. However, the World Cup and the Concacaf Women's U-17 Championship were canceled due to the covid pandemic.

Missimo was named to the national under-20 team for the 2022 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship. She scored three goals in seven appearances while leading the United States to the championship and was one of four Americans to make the tournament's Best XI. Prior to the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, she announced on social media that she removed herself for consideration for the roster to focus on her sophomore college season.

Missimo was called into camp with the under-23 team in 2023.

Missimo was called up by Emma Hayes into the 2025 U.S. Women's National Team Futures Camp, practicing alongside the senior national team, in January 2025. Missimo was just one of only twenty-four players named to the 2025 camp. The camp featured up-and-coming USWNT prospects who are all age-eligible for the U.S. U-23 Women's National Team.

Personal life

Her parents are Derek Missimo and Susan Missimo. Her father is the all-time leading scorer (56) and all-time points leader (138) for North Carolina and coached her youth club teams. Her mother was a four-year letter winner for Texas Christian from 1991 to 1994. She has an older sister Gabriella, who was part of the Texas Longhorns women's soccer team in 2019.

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