Katie Gurba enters her fourth and final season with the Rutgers-Camden women’s soccer team with several career program goalkeeper records in her reach. Recognized as a New Jersey Athletic Conference Honorable Mention player in 2016, Gurba also was named the Scarlet Raptors’ Most Dedicated Player.
Already the all-time Rutgers-Camden leader with 12 shutouts, Gurba enters this season having played 3,489:18 minutes in goal. She will break the mark of 3,498 minutes by Kristen Stewart (1998-01) in her first game. Gurba also owns the second-best career goals-against average (1.39, behind the 1.24 mark set by Kristen Cargen from 2006-07) in program history, is third on the chart for shots faced (531) and fourth in saves (198). If she faces 137 more shots, she will tie the program mark set by Leighanna Milby (2010-13). She needs only 86 more saves to tie Stewart’s career record. Gurba also owns five career ties, putting her in a three-way deadlock for second place on the program’s career list, one behind Milby’s record. With 13 career victories she is sixth on the program list. She needs nine more wins to tie Stewart’s career mark.
An outstanding student as well, Gurba was named NJAC Academic Honorable Mention during her sophomore and junior years. She was a member of the inaugural Rutgers-Camden Athletic Director’s Honor Roll (2015 fall semester) and repeated on the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll for the 2016 spring semester and the 2016 fall semester. She also serves on the Rutgers-Camden Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) for the 2017-18 scholastic year.
In addition to her three soccer letters, Gurba also earned a softball letter as an outfielder with the 2015 team.
Soccer 2016: Started all 16 games for the Scarlet Raptors and played every minute except 1:15 in goal during the season…In 1,509:58 minutes, compiled a 1.55 goals-against average, three shutouts and 101 saves as Rutgers-Camden played its most demanding schedule in program history, which included six games against Top 25 teams…Allowed 26 goals while facing 266 shots…Had a .795 save percentage…Compiled a 4-10-2 record…Named NJAC Honorable Mention for her first all-conference post-season honor…Tied the program’s career shutout record with a 1-0 victory over Widener University (Sept. 3), making five saves for her 10th career shutout…Set a new program record in a 0-0 tie against Moravian College (Sept. 11), collecting four saves, and increased her total to 12 career shutouts with seven saves in a 2-0 win over Rutgers-Newark (Sept. 17)…Had a career-high 14 saves, the seventh-highest single-game total in program history, in a 5-0 loss against national powerhouse The College of New Jersey (Sept. 28)…Faced 30 shots in that game, tied for the 12th-highest total in program history…Faced 26 shots in a 2-1 loss at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Oct. 5) and 25 shots in a 3-2 loss at Johns Hopkins University (Sept. 21), making seven saves in each game to help the Scarlet Raptors force a pair of nationally-ranked teams into overtime on their own pitch…Played every minute of every game except 1:15 against Ramapo College (Oct. 1), when she briefly came out of the contest to cover an open cut…Logged 260:38 consecutive scoreless minutes from Sept. 10-21.
Soccer 2015: Started 11 of the Scarlet Raptors’ 16 games…Played 1,022:30 minutes in goal out of the team’s 1,483:34 total…Posted a 5-4-2 record and four shutouts…Notched 53 saves, a .779 save percentage and a 1.32 goals-against average…Compiled a shutout string of 271:29 from Oct. 24-29, the fifth-longest streak in program history…Also owns the ninth- and 10th-longest streaks, set in 2014…Faced a total of 138 shots during the season, including a high of 23 shots against Rutgers-Newark (Oct. 24), tying her career high set in 2014 against Rowan…Made four saves in that Rutgers-Newark game to post a 2-1 victory…Collected her first career assist when Kylee Schairer scored off her punt against New Jersey City University (Oct. 20)…Posted her first shutout of the season in a 2-0 win over Mount Saint Vincent (Sept. 16), making one save…Had two saves in a 5-0 shutout of New Jersey City University (Oct. 20)…Collected back-to-back shutouts over the College of Staten Island (2-0 on Oct. 26, making two saves) and Stockton University (0-0 in double overtime Oct. 29, with five saves)…Made a season-high eight saves in a 1-0 overtime loss at Eastern University (Oct. 7), facing 17 shots in the game…Also faced 17 shots and made seven saves against Kean University (Oct. 3 in a 4-0 loss)…Also collected seven saves against both William Paterson University (a 1-1 tie, Sept. 19) and Rowan University (a 6-0 loss, Sept. 30)…First victory of the season came in a 4-1 win over Cabrini College (Sept. 4), when she faced 11 shots and made four saves…Out of her four defeats, two came by 1-0 scores (against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Sept. 3 and Eastern University Oct. 7).
Softball 2015: Played in 14 games, starting five in left and right fields, as well as appearing in the designated player spot…Hit .143 with four runs, one RBI, one double and three walks…Had two putouts in two chances for a 1.000 fielding percentage…Made Raptor debut against Capital University (March 13), going 0-for-1…Pinch-hit and batted twice in the Raptors’ seven-run fourth inning against York (NY) College (March 20), going 1-for-2, including a RBI double to cap the frame and collect her first collegiate hit…Started both ends of an April 9 doubleheader at Arcadia University and went 1-for-3 with two runs scored and one walk in the nightcap…Started the second game of a doubleheader at Montclair State University (April 11), getting hit by a pitch and scoring a run…Went 1-for-1 against Rowan University (April 14, Game One), getting a fifth-inning single and also adding a putout in right field…Started both ends of a doubleheader at John Jay College (April 16), walking and scoring a run in the second game.
Soccer 2014: Started all 11 of her games as the Scarlet Raptors’ goalie…Played 956:50 minutes and allowed 13 goals for a 1.22 goals-against average…Made 44 saves for a .772 percentage…Faced 127 shots…Compiled five shutouts and a 4-5-1 record…Had consecutive shutout minute streaks of 206:18 (Sept. 13-20) and 202:03 (Sept. 20-Oct. 1)…Made her collegiate debut during the Raptors’ 3-1 loss to the host team at the Castleton State College Tournament (Aug. 30)…Faced 16 shots and made three saves…Collected her first collegiate win and shutout in a 3-0 victory over Elms College (Sept. 6), facing six shots and making one save…Faced 13 shots and made her season high of eight saves during a 1-0 win over Widener University (Sept. 11)…Made three saves in a 0-0 tie at Washington College (Sept. 17) and five saves in a 1-0 loss to William Paterson University (Sept. 20)…Named the New Jersey Athletic Conference Women’s Soccer Rookie of the Week Sept. 29 after posting a pair of 1-0 shutouts the previous week…Blanked Cabrini College, 1-0, on Sept. 24 by making six saves…Also posted a 1-0 shutout over New Jersey City University (Sept. 27) with two saves…Became the Raptors’ first NJAC Rookie of the Week since Katie Angelosante on Oct. 24, 2011…In her final game faced a season-high 23 shots and made four saves in a 4-0 loss against Rowan University (Oct. 1)…Overall, out of her five defeats, three of them came by one goal and the Raptors were blanked in three of them.
High School: Four-sport letterman at Holy Cross High School, playing four years of soccer and softball, three in basketball and one in bowling…Played soccer for coaches Richard McConnell, Colin Hinkelman, Sergio Torres, Chris Zipoli and Kara Hinkelman, earning team MVP honors three times and capturing a Coaches Award honor…Played softball under coaches Walter Walsh, Thomas Guida, Tiffany Rhea and Jim Nolan, capturing the Charlie Hustle Award, the Spirit Award and the Sister Joan Scholarship Award…Played basketball for coaches Fred Phillips, Jack Fleischer, Frank Monaghan, Sam Bishop and Steph Deisley…Served as the varsity team captain in basketball, soccer and softball…Academically, earned Honors with Distinction…National Honor Society member…Graduated in 2014.
Club Team: Florence
Personal: Born October 21, 1995…Kathleen “Katie” Gurba…Last name pronounced “GER-ba”… Enjoys hanging out with friends and going to the beach, hiking, paddle boarding, camping, golfing, dancing, biking and swimming…Nursing major at Rutgers-Camden…Post-graduation plans: “After passing my boards, I plan to work as a registered nurse at a hospital while saving up for the future, which hopefully includes my own place and a family”…Katie is the daughter of Patricia and Andrew Gurba of Westampton.
