Lucy
Kesler
Lucy Kesler is a BYU junior midfielder from American Fork, Utah, and a 2025 third-team United Soccer Coaches All-American. That season she made the All-Big 12 first team, helped set up the winning goal in the Big 12 Tournament final and was called up to a U.S. Under-20 women's national team training camp. She was named to the 2026 Hermann Trophy watch list and plays alongside her cousin, Ellie Walbruch.
Who is Lucy Kesler?
Lucy Kesler is a soccer athlete for BYU from American Fork, Utah. 2025 third-team All-American (sophomore); 2025 All-Big 12 First Team; U.S. U-20 training camp (October 2025)
American Fork and La Roca
BYU prints Kesler's hometown as American Fork, Utah, and her previous school as American Fork High School, which her biography says she finished in three years. She was the 2024 ECNL Northwest Conference Player of the Year and an ECNL All-American with La Roca, the same biography says, and attended the U.S. National Team College ID Camp in the summer of 2025.
An All-American as a sophomore
In 2025 she started 22 games, scored her first career brace at Oklahoma State and shared the assist on Ellie Walbruch's winning goal in the Big 12 Tournament final, BYU reported. United Soccer Coaches named her a third-team All-American, and she made the All-Big 12 first team. In October 2025 she was called up to a U.S. U-20 women's national team training camp, the only player from a Big 12 school invited, BYU said. Read the cousins' story.
2026
She made the Hermann Trophy watch list and United Soccer Coaches' midfielders to watch, and through Oct. 30 she had started all 17 BYU matches with three assists, by BYU's statistics. She plays for the BYU women's soccer team.
At a glance
Key achievements
- 2025 United Soccer Coaches third-team All-American as a sophomore
- 2025 All-Big 12 First Team, Big 12 All-Tournament Team and All-Midwest Region First Team
- Called up to a U.S. Under-20 women's national team training camp, October 2025
- Shared the assist on the winning goal in the 2025 Big 12 Tournament final
- 2026 MAC Hermann Trophy watch list; United Soccer Coaches midfielders to watch
- 2024 ECNL Northwest Conference Player of the Year and ECNL All-American, per BYU
Official sources
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Photo: Sydnie Alder/BYU Photo
- BYU: Lucy Kesler women's soccer biobyucougars.com
- BYU: Walbruch and Kesler receive All-America honors (Dec. 5, 2025)byucougars.com
- BYU: Kesler called up to U.S. U-20 WNT training camp (Oct. 20, 2025)byucougars.com
- BYU: Six Cougars earn 2025 All-Big 12 honors (Nov. 4, 2025)byucougars.com
- BYU: Kesler and Walbruch make Hermann Trophy watch list (Aug. 26, 2026)byucougars.com
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What each source confirms
- BYU: Lucy Kesler women's soccer bio
- Read 2026-11-01: 2026 roster, #33, midfielder, junior, hometown American Fork, Utah, previous school American Fork High School; cousins with teammate Ellie Walbruch; graduated high school in three years; 2024 ECNL Northwest Conference Player of the Year, 2024 ECNL All-American, La Roca; U.S. National Team College ID Camp, summer 2025. 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)
- Kesler third team; 22 starts, 1,681 minutes; first career brace at Oklahoma State; three assists including the Big 12 final winner.
- BYU: Kesler called up to U.S. U-20 WNT training camp (Oct. 20, 2025)
- Oct. 22-30, 2025; 'the only player from a Big 12 school invited'.
- BYU: Six Cougars earn 2025 All-Big 12 honors (Nov. 4, 2025)
- Kesler first team.
- BYU: Kesler and Walbruch make Hermann Trophy watch list (Aug. 26, 2026)
- Both on the watch list; Kesler TopDrawerSoccer preseason No. 92.
- BYU: Kesler earns a spot on NCAA midfielders to watch list (Aug. 7, 2026)
- United Soccer Coaches midfielders to watch.
- BYU (WMT): Lucy Kesler 2026 statistics
- Read 2026-11-01: 17 games, 17 starts, three assists, 1,374 minutes.
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