Hall of Fame
The best women's soccer player of the NCAA era and one of the top players all-time, Sarah Franklin was the first athlete in any sport to earn All-America status at the NCAA level, grabbing a spot on the Second Team as a junior in the fall of 2012. A crossover athlete who played during the transitional period, she was also a 2010 NAIA All-America Third Team performer as a freshman. She earned three All-Conference First Team honors, including two in the GLVC where she was selected the 2012 Offensive Player of the Year, the first Jewell athlete in any sport to receive a major award in the league. At the end of that season, she also earned the GLVC Women's Soccer Scholar-Athlete of the Year honor, another first for the Cardinals. During her career, she scored 68 goals, handed out 28 assists, to account for 164 points, 314 shots and 21 game winning goals. She is the NCAA era leader in career points, points per game, goals, goals per game, game winning goals, assists, shots, shots per game, shot on goal, and shots on goal per game. She recorded 17 multi-goal games and led her teams to a 48-24-6 record with two national tournament appearances during her career, including the first of the NCAA era (2012).
