Ellie
Walbruch
Ellie Walbruch is a BYU senior forward from Highland, Utah, and a 2025 second-team United Soccer Coaches All-American. She scored 16 goals in 2025, including five in three games and the winner in the final as BYU won its first Big 12 Tournament title, where she was named Most Outstanding Offensive Player. She is a captain and was named to the 2026 Hermann Trophy watch list.
Who is Ellie Walbruch?
Ellie Walbruch is a soccer athlete for BYU from Highland, Utah. 2025 second-team All-American; 16 goals in 2025; 2025 Big 12 Tournament Most Outstanding Offensive Player
Highland, La Roca and UCLA
BYU prints Walbruch's hometown as Highland, Utah. Her biography says she captained La Roca from 2016 to 2021, winning a state title, played her freshman season at UCLA on its 2022 national championship team, and transferred to BYU, where her cousin, Lucy Kesler, is a teammate. BYU reported that she missed the 2024 season with an ACL injury.
An All-American in 2025
She returned to score 16 goals in 2025, with 91 shots, and became one of four players in BYU history to score in five or more straight matches, BYU reported. At the Big 12 Tournament she scored five goals in three games, including the only goal of the 1-0 final against Kansas, and was named Most Outstanding Offensive Player. United Soccer Coaches named her a second-team All-American, and she made the All-Big 12 first team. Read the cousins' story.
2026
BYU named her a captain and she made the Hermann Trophy watch list and the preseason All-Big 12 team. BYU's statistics show five starts for her in 2026. She plays for the BYU women's soccer team.
At a glance
Key achievements
- 2025 United Soccer Coaches second-team All-American
- 16 goals in 2025, leading BYU, per BYU
- 2025 Big 12 Tournament Most Outstanding Offensive Player; scored the winner in the 1-0 final against Kansas
- One of four players in BYU history to score in five or more straight matches, per BYU
- 2025 All-Big 12 First Team and All-Midwest Region First Team
- 2026 MAC Hermann Trophy watch list; BYU captain
- Member of UCLA's 2022 national championship team as a freshman, per BYU
Official sources
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Photo: Sydnie Alder/BYU Photo
- BYU: Ellie Walbruch women's soccer biobyucougars.com
- BYU: Walbruch and Kesler receive All-America honors (Dec. 5, 2025)byucougars.com
- BYU: Cougars make history as first No. 8 seed to win Big 12 Tournament championship (Nov. 8, 2025)byucougars.com
- BYU: Six Cougars earn 2025 All-Big 12 honors (Nov. 4, 2025)byucougars.com
- BYU: Walbruch, Kesler and Stratton named to All-Midwest Region teams (Dec. 2, 2025)byucougars.com
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What each source confirms
- BYU: Ellie Walbruch women's soccer bio
- Read 2026-11-01: 2026 roster, #15, forward, senior, hometown Highland, Utah, previous school UCLA; cousins with teammate Lucy Kesler; La Roca captain 2016-21, U18/19 state title 2020; UCLA freshman season, part of the 2022 national championship team. Source of the headshot (Sydnie Alder/BYU Photo, April 14, 2026; agency grep 0).
- BYU: Walbruch and Kesler receive All-America honors (Dec. 5, 2025)
- Walbruch second team; 16 goals, 91 shots, 41 on goal; one of only four players in BYU history to score in five or more consecutive matches.
- BYU: Cougars make history as first No. 8 seed to win Big 12 Tournament championship (Nov. 8, 2025)
- Walbruch scored the only goal of the 1-0 final against Kansas; five goals in three games; Most Outstanding Offensive Player.
- BYU: Six Cougars earn 2025 All-Big 12 honors (Nov. 4, 2025)
- Walbruch first team; 'After being sidelined all of last year due to an ACL injury'.
- BYU: Walbruch, Kesler and Stratton named to All-Midwest Region teams (Dec. 2, 2025)
- Walbruch All-Midwest Region first team.
- BYU: Kesler and Walbruch make Hermann Trophy watch list (Aug. 26, 2026)
- Both on the watch list; Walbruch a second-year captain, TopDrawerSoccer preseason No. 18.
- BYU (WMT): Ellie Walbruch statistics
- Read 2026-11-01: 2026, five games, five starts (last on Sept. 3); 2025, 24 games, 16 goals.
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