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Mia Oliaro
Oliaro with Duke in 2024
Personal information
Full name Mia Katherine Oliaro[1]
Date of birth (2005-06-27) June 27, 2005 (age 19)[1]
Place of birth Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Position(s) Wingback, midfielder, forward
Team information
Current team
 Duke Blue Devils
Number 15
Youth career
North Carolina Courage
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2023 North Carolina Tar Heels 20 (1)
2024– Duke Blue Devils 22 (8)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2023–2024 North Carolina Courage U23 19 (5)
International career‡
2022 United States U-17 10 (3)
2024 United States U-19 1 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of December 6, 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of June 3, 2024

Mia Katherine Oliaro (born June 27, 2005) is an American college soccer player who plays as a wingback for the Duke Blue Devils. She previously played for the North Carolina Tar Heels. She has represented the United States at the youth international level.

Early life

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Oliaro was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to Scott and Jeri Oliaro, and has a younger brother. Her father, the associate director of sports medicine at the University of North Carolina, played college football at Cornell, and her mother played basketball at American.[2] Oliaro began playing soccer at the YMCA at about age three.[3] She also played other sports growing up, such as lacrosse, basketball, and swimming, in which she won a state championship at age ten.[3] She played soccer two age groups up for Triangle United, where she was coached by her future Duke assistant coach Carla Overbeck.[4]

Oliaro joined the North Carolina Courage Academy while attending Chapel Hill High School, twice receiving ECNL first-team all-conference honors.[2][3] The summer before college, she played for the North Carolina Courage U23 in the 2023 USL W League season. Oliaro contributed five goals and a team-high six assists as the Courage went undefeated in the regular season and made it to the national final, in which she assisted on the game-tying goal before losing to Indy Eleven in overtime.[3][5] Oliaro was named the league's Young Player of the Year, first-team Team of the Year, and the South Atlantic Division Player of the Year.[5] The next summer, Oliaro helped the Courage U23 win the 2024 national championship, starting in the final which they won 3–2 over the Colorado Storm.[6]

College career

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North Carolina Tar Heels

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Oliaro saw limited playing time in her freshman season with the North Carolina Tar Heels in 2023, averaging 20 minutes per game in 20 appearances.[2][3] She recorded an assist in the opening matchday win over California and scored her first college goal to equalize in an eventual 3–1 win over Arkansas.[7][8] North Carolina lost to BYU in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament.[9] Following her freshman season, Oliaro entered the transfer portal, saying North Carolina "just wasn't the right fit for me".[4]

Duke Blue Devils

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Oliaro chose to join North Carolina's state rival Duke Blue Devils. She started every game of her sophomore year in 2024, helping Duke to the national No. 1 ranking and the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) regular-season title. She recorded a goal or an assist in a program-record nine games in a row, a span in which her brace secured the regular-season title with a 2–0 win over No. 2–ranked Wake Forest.[4][10] She helped Duke not concede through the first four rounds of the NCAA tournament before losing to her former team North Carolina in the semifinals.[11] She finished the season with 8 goals and 13 assists (joint-second in the nation) and was named to the All-ACC second team.[1]

International career

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Oliaro was first called into training camp with the United States national under-17 team in 2021.[12] She played for the team at the 2022 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship, which they won to qualify for the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.[13] Oliaro missed the World Cup due to injury.[14] She trained with the combined under-18/under-19 teams in 2023.[14]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Mia Oliaro – 2024 – Women's Soccer". Duke Blue Devils. Retrieved June 27, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "Mia Oliaro – Women's Soccer". North Carolina Tar Heels. Retrieved June 27, 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d e Trent, Tyler (September 5, 2023). "Hometown hero Mia Oliaro is ready to burst further onto the national stage for UNC". TopBin90. Retrieved June 27, 2024.
  4. ^ a b c Swanson, Shelby (November 19, 2024). "How a rare UNC-to-Duke women's soccer transfer helped elevate the Blue Devils to No. 1". The News & Observer. Retrieved November 29, 2024.
  5. ^ a b "Mia Oliaro named USL W South Atlantic Division Player of the Year". North Carolina Courage. July 25, 2023. Retrieved June 27, 2024.
    "Mia Oliaro named Young player of the Year, Flint City's Michele Krzisnik named Coach of the Year". USL W League. July 19, 2023. Retrieved June 27, 2024.
    "Courage U23s land three on USL W League Team of the Year". North Carolina Courage. August 2, 2023. Retrieved June 27, 2024.
  6. ^ "NC Courage U23 claims 2024 USL W League title after second-half comeback". USL W League. July 20, 2024. Retrieved July 21, 2024.
  7. ^ Monroe, Noah (September 3, 2023). "UNC women's soccer first-year and Chapel Hill native Mia Oliaro shines in Arkansas game". The Daily Tar Heel. Retrieved June 27, 2024.
  8. ^ Koh, Michael (September 3, 2023). "UNC Women's Soccer Dispatches No. 8 Arkansas in Chapel Hill". Chapelboro.com. Retrieved June 27, 2024.
  9. ^ Monroe, Noah (November 27, 2023). "UNC women's soccer season ends after allowing three-goal comeback in NCAA tournament". The Daily Tar Heel. Retrieved October 28, 2024.
  10. ^ Olin, Sydney (October 28, 2024). "No. 1 Duke women's soccer takes ACC regular season title after shutting out No. 2 Wake Forest on the road". Duke Chronicle. Retrieved October 28, 2024.
  11. ^ Tan, Jun (December 6, 2024). "No. 1 Duke women's soccer ends historic Robbie Church era with 3-0 College Cup loss to North Carolina". Duke Chronicle. Retrieved December 8, 2024.
  12. ^ Eskilson, J.R. (February 4, 2021). "Call-ups for the U.S. U17 WNT Camp". TopDrawerSoccer. Retrieved June 27, 2024.
  13. ^ Hindle, Tim (May 9, 2022). "U17 WNT beats Mexico, wins Concacaf". TopDrawerSoccer. Retrieved June 27, 2024.
  14. ^ a b "U18/19 WNT Camp Roster Named for California". United States Soccer Federation. January 10, 2023. Retrieved June 27, 2024 – via TopDrawerSoccer.
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