THE OFFICIAL ATHLETICS SITE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA LIONS

UNA 2024: Named Captain for the 2024 season ... Appeared in 11 matches with eight starts for the Lions, totaling 700 minutes --- season cut short due to injury.

UNA 2023: Earned an Academic All-ASUN team selection ... Appeared in 21 matches with 20 starts for the Lions, totaling 1,828 minutes ... Had seven shots with three on goal.

UNA 2022: Appeared in 10 matches on the season ... Played for a total of 184 miniutes on the season.

UNA FALL 2021: Played in all 15 matches with 11 starts last season ... Had five shots and three on goal.

HIGH SCHOOL: Played at Green Hope High School under coach Stacy Lamb ... The Falcons won conference championships in 2018 and 2019 ... Selected first-team all-conference and all-region in 2018 and 2019 and received the MVP award in 2018 ... Also ran cross country at Green Hope ... Graduated Summa Cum Laude.

CLUB: Played for the North Carolina Futbol Club and was part of two state championship teams in 2018 and 2019.

PERSONAL: Full name is Montana Lynn Merkle ... Birthday is August 15 ... Daughter of Lynn and Drue Merkle and has two siblings ... Majoring in Computer Science.

STATS AT UNA
Year       GP    GS    Sh    G    A    Pts
2021       15     11      5      0    0    0
2022       10      0       0      0    0    0
2023       21     20      7      0    1    1
2024       11      8       6      0    1    1

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