A transfer from Camden County College, Taylor O’Rourke played in all 19 games for the Scarlet Raptors last season. She returns for her senior year this fall.
In her combined three-year collegiate career, O’Rourke has appeared in 48 games, starting 42, and collecting five goals and five assists for 15 points.
Academics: Rutgers-Camden Athletic Director’s Honor Roll and Dean’s List student for the 2019 Spring, 2019 Fall and 2020 Spring semesters.
Soccer 2019: Appeared in 13 games, starting 10…Took three shots, two on goal for a .667 percentage…Notched one assist…Made her season debut playing 36 minutes against Washington (Sept. 7) and made her first start the next day against Shenandoah, taking one shot in each game…Played the full 90 minutes at Moravian (Sept. 14), the first of six games in which she played the full 90 minutes…Collected her lone assist of the season on the game-winning goal by Lindsay Hernandez in a 4-1 victory at New Jersey City (Oct. 5), while playing 90 minutes for the fifth straight game.
Soccer 2018: Played in all 19 Rutgers-Camden games, starting 14…Notched one goal and one assist for three points…Took eight shots, five on goal for a .625 percentage…Started the season opener at Elizabethtown College (Aug. 31), playing 66 minutes in a 4-2 loss…Played the full 90 minutes in a 2-0 loss at Widener (Sept. 12)…Had a season high of 110 minutes in a 1-1 overtime tie against Montclair State…Assisted on Kenzee Hudson’s goal in a 4-1 win over New Jersey City University (Sept. 29) to pick up her first point as a Scarlet Raptor…Scored her first Rutgers-Camden goal on Sept. 24 to account for all the team’s scoring in a 2-1 loss against Stockton University (Oct. 24).
Pre-Rutgers: Played two seasons for the Camden County College women’s soccer program in 2016 and 2017…Appeared in 29 career games, starting 28 and notching four goals (one game winner) and four assists for 12 points…As a freshman in 2016, started 16 of her 17 games, collecting two goals and three assists for seven points…One of the goals was a game winner…In 12 games, all starts, as a sophomore, had two goals and one assist for five points…Earned Academic All-American honors during both the 2016-17 and 2017-18 scholastic years.
High School: Two-year soccer letterwinner at Hammonton High School…Graduated in 2016.
Club Team: Winslow Township Bandits
Personal: Born August 15, 1998…Nicknamed “Tay”…Lists soccer as her hobby/interest…Biology major at Rutgers-Camden, with a minor in Computer Science…Taylor is the daughter of Jaclyne O’Rourke of Hammonton.
