28  Brooke Keyes
	Class: Junior Hometown: Mission Viejo, Calif. High School: Laguna Hills Height: 5-7 Position: Defender Experience: 2L Club: Laguna Niguel SC

2010: Academic All-SEC ... Saw action in 11 matches, earning two starts against Indiana and Arkansas ... Played a season high 67 minutes at Arkansas

2009: Saw action in 12 games this season... Earned first career start against LSU and four starts this season ... Played 625 total minutes ... Played a season high 90 minutes against Mississippi State and Vanderbilt ... Took lone shot of the season against Mississippi State

Pre-College: A member of the Laguna Niguel Soccer Club, Keyes helped lead her club team to the Girls U17 Gold Division championship and a Girls U19 Premier Division sixth place finish in the Coast Soccer League ... In the Houston Showcase, helped team defeat the New Mexico (Rio Vista) State Champions and Florida (Boca Jr.) State Champions ... Helped lead team to a victory over the Costa Rican Girls U17 National team in an exhibition game ... Named a First Team All-Pacific Coast Conference performer, 2008 ... Helped lead Laguna Hills High School to state tournament three straight years including a quarterfinal finish her junior season ... Father, Mike, played football at Michigan State ... Sister, Lindsay, swam at Asbury College (Wilmore, Ky.)

• Full Name: Brooke Keyes
• Place of Birth: Newport Beach, Calif.
• Parents: V. Michael III and Lisa
• Siblings: Lindsay
• Club Team/Coach: Laguna Niguel Soccer Club/Dave Ortwein

Keyes Q & A

What is your nickname, why? Sparky - Dad thought I was a crazy kid.

Better bicycle kick: Pele or Rooney? Pele

Would you rather make a nice, hard clean-tackle to stop a goal or execute a perfect corner kick that leads to a goal? Tackle

Would you rather win the World Cup or an Olympic gold medal? World Cup!

If you could have a superpower, what would it be? Make someone pee their pants on command... think about how hilarious that would be.

Who is your favorite athlete? Brett Favre

What do you want to be when you grow up? Athletic Director or Sports Manager

When you were 10, what did you want to be when you grew up? An Entomologist (aka Bug-Scientist)

What is your favorite vacation destination? Buenos Aires!

What is your prized possession? My dog, Mac

What is your guilty midnight snack? Ice Cream

When you leave Kentucky, what do you want people to say about you? That I was the girl people could come to about anything.

Without looking it up, what's a rutabaga? An ancient bird.

Who has the quickest temper on the team? Oh we never ever have tempers.

If you had a Derby horse, what would you name it? BrooklynWeGoHard

What's one thing you've always wanted to do, but have never been able to? Move to a foreign county and work with kids for a year.

People would be surprised to know that I ... I'm an "OC girl".

What is one interesting story in your life? I went to the World Cup in South Africa and hung out with the Women's National Team.

I chose my jersey number because ... Coach chose it for me.