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Summer
Diamond

Summer Diamond is a senior midfielder from Uintah who leads Utah State in goals and points during the Aggies' 7-2-1, nationally ranked 2026 season. A Bonneville High School product, she has 16 goals and 41 points across four years in Logan, sits tied for ninth in program history with six career game-winning goals, and scored the goal that beat No. 1 BYU as a freshman.

Sportsoccer
PositionMidfielder
SchoolUtah State
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The story

Who is Summer Diamond?

Summer Diamond is a Midfielder for Utah State's soccer program from Uintah, Utah. 2026: 4 goals, 2 assists, 10 points in 10 starts (team lead in goals and points); career 16 goals, 41 points, six game-winning goals

What Summer Diamond has done in 2026

Diamond has started all ten matches for Utah State and leads the Aggies in both goals (4) and points (10) as the team sits 7-2-1 and ranked No. 18 nationally. She is finishing at the best rate of her career: her .267 shooting percentage is nearly double her .139 career mark, and seven of her nine shots on goal have come in her last five matches.

Her biggest afternoon came on September 17 at Idaho State, where she scored twice inside the opening eleven minutes — a penalty at 0:29 and a second at 10:52 assisted by Samantha Sellers and Austin Miller — in a 6-0 win. Utah State's staff recorded them as the quickest goals in succession in program history.

From Uintah to a nationally ranked team

Diamond grew up in Uintah, a small town in northern Utah, and played four years at Bonneville High School in Ogden. She scored 27 goals with 18 assists there, was first-team all-state as a sophomore, junior and senior, and led Bonneville to a 16-1 record and a region championship as a senior. She also spent six years with club side Utah Avalanche and was named to the U17 Best XI at the 2022 US Youth Soccer National Championships.

The debut that put her on the map

As a true freshman in 2023, Diamond became the first true freshman in Utah State history to score a brace in her collegiate debut, netting two first-half goals in a 5-1 win over Weber State. Later that season she scored the game-winner that beat No. 1 BYU, and she finished the year on the Mountain West All-Newcomer Team after twice being named the conference's Freshman of the Week.

The setback, and the answer to it

Diamond's junior year ended the hard way. After playing 90 minutes in the Mountain West Tournament quarterfinal and 84 in the semifinal, she scored in the championship match at Boise State and was then injured midway through that game, missing Utah State's NCAA Tournament match entirely. She still made the Mountain West All-Tournament Team. Her senior season is the answer to it: ten starts, a team-leading scoring line, and a career-best finishing rate.

The in-state record

Diamond has scored against five Utah Division I programmes — BYU, Utah, Weber State, Utah Tech and Utah Valley — including a goal and an assist in the Aggies' 4-0 win over a then-No. 13 BYU side on September 10, 2026.

Snapshot

At a glance

School
Utah State University

Sport
soccer

Position
Midfielder

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Résumé

Key achievements

  • Leads Utah State in goals (4) and points (10) through ten matches of a 7-2-1, No. 18-ranked 2026 season
  • Tied for ninth in Utah State history with six career game-winning goals
  • United Soccer Coaches All-Pacific Region First Team and All-Mountain West Second Team (2024)
  • First true freshman in program history to score a brace in her collegiate debut (2023, vs Weber State)
  • Scored the game-winning goal in Utah State's 2023 win over No. 1 BYU
  • Mountain West All-Newcomer Team (2023), All-Tournament Team (2025), Freshman of the Week twice in 2023
  • Academic All-Mountain West in 2024 and 2025
  • Career: 16 goals, 9 assists, 41 points and 4,596 minutes across 74 appearances

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