2022 (SENIOR): Named to the SEC Preseason Watch List ... Started in all 20 appearances … Logged 1,495 minutes of action, completing 7 games … Recorded one goal for two total points … Put six of nine shots on goal … Helped Ole Miss secure ten clean sheets this season … Bagged a goal against Memphis (8/21).

2021 (SENIOR): Named to the SEC Preseason Watch List … Started all 21 matches … Logged 1,919 minutes of action, playing the entirety of 16 matches … Helped Ole Miss secure six clean sheets … Took nine shots, putting two on goal … Took a pair of shots in back-to-back matches at the SEC Tournament against Alabama (11/2) and Tennessee (11/4).

2020 (JUNIOR): Named to the SEC Preseason Watch List … Appeared in and started all 18 matches during the season … One of three players to be on the pitch for all 1,693 minutes of the campaign … Helped the Rebels secure seven clean sheets … Recorded one assist … Took seven shots, putting four on goal … Played a key role in a pair of Rebel clean sheets at LSU (9/27) and Alabama (10/18) during SEC play … Assisted on the final goal against Georgia Southern (3/27) … Helped Ole Miss secure clean sheets in four-straight matches against Georgia Southern (3/27), Arkansas State (4/2), South Alabama (4/10) and Bowling Green (4/27).

2019 (SOPHOMORE): Started all 20 games during her first season after switching positions to the back line … Logged the second most minutes of any field player with 1,888 … Played the entirety of seven contests … Helped anchor the defense in six shutouts … Took five total shots, putting two on frame … Assisted on Ole Miss’ opening goal in the 3-2 win over Florida (10/10).

2018 (REDSHIRT-FRESHMAN): Appeared in all 22 matches, making nine starts on the season ... Started the final eight matches of the year ... Logged 822 minutes on the pitch ... Registered one goal and one assist for three total points ... Scored her first collegiate goal in the season-opener against Louisiana (8/17) ... Dished out an assist against UConn (9/7) ... Made her first-career start at Auburn (9/23) ... Tallied three shots, two on goal, against Arkansas (10/7) ... Posted a season-high 57 minutes at Kentucky (10/18).

2017 (FRESHMAN): Did not play during her freshman season.

HIGH SCHOOL: Four-year letterwinner from Winter Springs High School in Winter Springs, Florida … three-time all-conference player and two-time offensive MVP … Named team MVP as a junior and offensive MVP in her freshman and sophomore seasons … Winter Spring’s female freshman athlete of the year in her first season, before landing first team all-conference honors the last two seasons … Earned the Orange County Public Schools Sportsmanship Award in 2017 … Member of the academic honor roll and National Honor Society throughout her high school tenure … Also played volleyball … Coached in high school by Kurt Oettl.

CLUB/ODP: Member of Florida’s ODP from 2012-14 … Region III Pool 2012-15 … National ODP Training Center in 2013-14 … On the interregional team in 2013, and national championship team in 2015 … Played club with Florida Kraze/Krush Club … Named a standout player at the Top Drawer Soccer ECNL Orlando Showcase 2016 … Also named one of the TDS Best XI in the Orlando Showcase.

PERSONAL: Full name is Sydney Ryann Michalak … Born April 27, 1999 … Daughter of Dan and Heather Michalak … Has one brother, Mitchell … Dad played basketball at Rollins College.