Women’s Soccer Rounds Out 2025 Roster with Addition of Brynn Gardner
7/3/2025 9:50:00 AM | Women's Soccer
OMAHA, Neb. – The Creighton women's soccer team made its final splash in the transfer portal, adding Bowling Green transfer Brynn Gardner on Thursday.
"We are excited to add Brynn to the team for 2025," said head coach Jimmy Walker. "Brynn brings a wealth of experience at multiple attacking positions. She can play as a center forward, a winger or an attacking center midfielder. She has great experience, already having three years of college soccer under her belt. Her speed and explosiveness on the front line will add a little more quality to our attacking unit come this fall. Brynn is a good person, which will help as we continue to build our team culture. We are really excited to have her on board and can't wait to have Brynn on campus this season."
Gardner, an attacking forward from Whitehouse, Ohio, arrives at Creighton after spending the previous three seasons at Bowling Green. As a Falcon, Gardner appeared in 54 matches, earning 50 starts and logging 3,564 total minutes of action. A two-time All-MAC selection, Gardner netted 14 career goals while dishing out 14 total assists.
In 2023 Gardner claimed First Team All-Mid-American Conference accolades after leading the Falcons with six goals and 16 points, including three game-winners. She also ranked second on the team with four assists, while ranking eighth in the MAC in goals and points, ninth in shots and 10th in shots on goal.
Following her freshman year, Brynn was named to the MAC's All-Freshman Team, having recorded 19 points on a team-leading seven assists while netting six goals. Overall, Gardner was fourth in the MAC in assists per game and tied for fourth in total assists, while tying for sixth in points per game (1.00), seventh in total points and ninth in goals.
Prior to joining the Falcons, Gardner graduated from Anthony Wayne High School, where she earned four letters for coach Lori Williams. A two-time All-Ohio First Team selection and a 2021 United Soccer Coaches Association All-American, Brynn scored 51 career goals and added 38 assists, while helping lead the Generals to a 67-8-10 record, including four Northern Lakes League titles and a 25-0-3 league mark.
Over the course of her four-year career, Gardner was named the Northern Lakes League Player of the Year twice while earning First Team All-League honors as both a junior and senior. In addition to earning United Soccer Coaches High School All-American honors in 2021, Gardner was named to the United Soccer Coaches Association First Team All-Central Region after netting 19 goals and leading her team to the OHSAA state semifinals for the third consecutive season.
Gardner joins a talented group of Bluejay newcomers that includes incoming freshman Addison Dea (Morton, Ill.), Josie Holt (Nashville, Tenn.), Sarah Hyde (Plymouth, Minn.), Madison London (Limehouse, Ontario, Canada), Kennedy Moore (Omaha, Neb.), Whitney Scott (Dublin, Ohio), Olivia Sides (Maple Valley, Wash.) and Addie Wilkie (Overland Park, Kan.), as well as Mississippi State transfer Jalen Chaney (Flower Mound, Texas), LSU transfer Tori Gillis (Leesburg, Va.) and Pittsburgh transfer Olivia Duray (Woodridge, Ill.).
Owning one of the toughest non-conference slates in the country, Creighton is set to open the 2025 season on Aug. 14 at Oklahoma, before key matches against Iowa State (Aug. 21), Western Michigan (Aug. 28), Duke (Aug. 31) and Arkansas (Sept. 5).
"We are excited to add Brynn to the team for 2025," said head coach Jimmy Walker. "Brynn brings a wealth of experience at multiple attacking positions. She can play as a center forward, a winger or an attacking center midfielder. She has great experience, already having three years of college soccer under her belt. Her speed and explosiveness on the front line will add a little more quality to our attacking unit come this fall. Brynn is a good person, which will help as we continue to build our team culture. We are really excited to have her on board and can't wait to have Brynn on campus this season."
Gardner, an attacking forward from Whitehouse, Ohio, arrives at Creighton after spending the previous three seasons at Bowling Green. As a Falcon, Gardner appeared in 54 matches, earning 50 starts and logging 3,564 total minutes of action. A two-time All-MAC selection, Gardner netted 14 career goals while dishing out 14 total assists.
In 2023 Gardner claimed First Team All-Mid-American Conference accolades after leading the Falcons with six goals and 16 points, including three game-winners. She also ranked second on the team with four assists, while ranking eighth in the MAC in goals and points, ninth in shots and 10th in shots on goal.
Following her freshman year, Brynn was named to the MAC's All-Freshman Team, having recorded 19 points on a team-leading seven assists while netting six goals. Overall, Gardner was fourth in the MAC in assists per game and tied for fourth in total assists, while tying for sixth in points per game (1.00), seventh in total points and ninth in goals.
Prior to joining the Falcons, Gardner graduated from Anthony Wayne High School, where she earned four letters for coach Lori Williams. A two-time All-Ohio First Team selection and a 2021 United Soccer Coaches Association All-American, Brynn scored 51 career goals and added 38 assists, while helping lead the Generals to a 67-8-10 record, including four Northern Lakes League titles and a 25-0-3 league mark.
Over the course of her four-year career, Gardner was named the Northern Lakes League Player of the Year twice while earning First Team All-League honors as both a junior and senior. In addition to earning United Soccer Coaches High School All-American honors in 2021, Gardner was named to the United Soccer Coaches Association First Team All-Central Region after netting 19 goals and leading her team to the OHSAA state semifinals for the third consecutive season.
Gardner joins a talented group of Bluejay newcomers that includes incoming freshman Addison Dea (Morton, Ill.), Josie Holt (Nashville, Tenn.), Sarah Hyde (Plymouth, Minn.), Madison London (Limehouse, Ontario, Canada), Kennedy Moore (Omaha, Neb.), Whitney Scott (Dublin, Ohio), Olivia Sides (Maple Valley, Wash.) and Addie Wilkie (Overland Park, Kan.), as well as Mississippi State transfer Jalen Chaney (Flower Mound, Texas), LSU transfer Tori Gillis (Leesburg, Va.) and Pittsburgh transfer Olivia Duray (Woodridge, Ill.).
Owning one of the toughest non-conference slates in the country, Creighton is set to open the 2025 season on Aug. 14 at Oklahoma, before key matches against Iowa State (Aug. 21), Western Michigan (Aug. 28), Duke (Aug. 31) and Arkansas (Sept. 5).
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