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 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

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

Damallsvenskan The Damallsvenskan, Swedish for ''ladies all-Swedish'' and also known as OBOS Damallsvenskan for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Sweden. It is also referred to as the women's Allsvenskan. The term Allsvenskan ...

. 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 C ...

(USC) from 2013 to 2016, she played for the USC Trojans women's soccer team that won the 2016 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament.

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 women's association football, soccer defender (association football), defender and current Sporting director, general manager of the National Wom ...

, who played soccer played for the Stanford Cardinal women's soccer team that won the 2011 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament, in 2013 was the captain of the

United States U-23 women's national soccer team The United States U-23 women's national soccer team is a youth soccer team operated under the auspices of U.S. Soccer. Its primary role is the development of players in preparation for the full Women's National Team. The team competes in a va ...

, played for the

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of the

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, and plays soccer for

Vålerenga Vålerenga () is a neighbourhood in the city of Oslo, Norway, belonging to the borough of Gamle Oslo. Vålerenga is located between the neighbourhoods of Gamlebyen, Jordal, Ensjø, Etterstad and Lodalen. Vålerenga is in particular known for it ...

in the

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. She grew up in

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, 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

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(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 ( he, המכביה התשע-עשרה) 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 ...

in Israel. Levin played at the

(USC) from 2013 to 2016, where she was part of the USC Trojans women's soccer team that won the 2016 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament. 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. At USC 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 Jewish athletes, other sports personalities, and teams from Southern California who have distinguished themselves ...

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 national ...

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

References

External links

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USC player profile
* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Levin, Savannah 1995 births Living people American women's soccer players Sportspeople from Newport Beach, California Soccer players from Orange County, 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 women Jews from California