Janessa Fowler

Janessa Fowler vs. Southern Utah - 9/24/17

Photo by: Todd Goodrich

Photo by: Todd Goodrich

Team bonding retreat to Kalispell/Glacier National Park

Year:
Senior
Position:
M
Hometown:
Highlands Ranch, Colo.
Previous School:
3L

2018 (senior season): Academic All-Big Sky Conference ... Second-team All-Big Sky Conference ... Voted MVP of the Big Sky Conference Tournament ... Voted team's Most Valuable Player and co-Most Outstanding Offensive Player ... Played in 17 of 22 matches, getting 15 starts ... Started the season’s final 15 matches ... Missed the season’s first five matches while recovering from a concussion suffered in the spring ... Still tied for second on the team with 11 points ... Scored five goals and added an assist ... Three of five goals came on penalty kicks ... Was 3 for 3 on penalty kicks ... Converted PKs against Weber State, Southern Utah and Sacramento State ... Scored twice at the Big Sky tournament ... Put in the game-winner in quarterfinal victory over Northern Arizona in 55th minute ... Scored second goal, in 32nd minute, in 2-0 victory over top-seeded Weber State in the semifinals ... Lone assist on the season came on Alexa Coyle’s game-winner in crucial 1-0 road win at Portland State ... Started at center back in place of Taryn Miller on Idaho State-Weber State road trip, a position she hadn’t before played in college ... Moved from holding midfielder to forward the final weeks of the season ... Grizzlies closed the season on a seven-match scoring streak after getting shut out seven times in season’s first 15 matches ... Took nine corner kicks ... Took six shots in home draw with Southern Utah ... Put four shots on goal in regular-season match at Weber State ... Played all but four minutes in Montana’s three wins at the Big Sky tournament.

2017 (junior season): United Soccer Coaches second-team Scholar All-West Region ... Academic All-Big Sky Conference ... United Soccer Coaches third-team All-West Region ... Honorable mention All-Big Sky Conference ... Voted to Big Sky Conference All-Tournament Team ... Voted team’s Most Valuable Player ... Played in all 21 matches, getting 17 starts ... Averaged more than 78 minutes per match ... Played every minute in 10 matches ... Tied for fourth on the team with five points, on two goals and one assist ... Both goals came on penalty kicks ... Converted the game-winner in 55th minute in 2-1 win over Georgia Southern at Pullman, Wash., and the equalizer in the 80th minute in 2-1 overtime home win over Northern Arizona ... Lone assist came on a free kick in the 79th minute that Allie Lucas scored on in 1-0 home win over Southern Utah ... Key member of a defensive unit that allowed just 16 goals in 21 matches ... Goals-against average of 0.72 ranked first in the Big Sky, 32nd nationally and was the second-lowest average in program history ... Montana allowed just six goals in 10 Big Sky matches and fewer than three shots on goal per game ... Tied for fifth on the team with 23 shots, eight of which were on goal ... Took 16 shots against Big Sky opponents, with four in 1-0 loss at Eastern Washington, three of which were on goal.

2016 (sophomore season): Academic All-Big Sky Conference ... Played in and started all 20 matches at midfielder ... Averaged 74 minutes per match, more than all but two other field players ... One of the team’s 11 goal scorers, one of seven players to record at least one goal and one assist ... Four points on the season tied for fifth on the team ... Scored first collegiate goal in 3-0 home win over Weber State, converting a penalty kick in the 79th minute ... Collected first assist of career in 2-0 win at Southern Utah, setting up McKenzie Warren for what would be the game-winner less than six minutes in ... Also had an assist on Ashlee Pedersen’s goal in 61st minute in 3-2 overtime road win at Eastern Washington as Grizzlies rallied from 2-0 deficit ... Took 13 shots on the season, putting three on goal ... Eight times played 80 or more minutes in a match ... Played 103 minutes in 1-1 double-overtime draw at Sacramento State.

2015 (freshman season): Academic All-Big Sky Conference ... Voted team’s Newcomer of the Year ... Played in all 22 matches, getting 18 starts in the midfield ... One of seven field players to log more than 1,100 minutes during the season ... Averaged more than 52 minutes per match ... Took three shots on the season, putting one on goal ... Two shots came in 1-0 road loss at Weber State ... Played a season-high 78 minutes in 1-0 home loss to NCAA tournament qualifier Washington State.

Career Highs
Goals: 1, eight times
Assists: 1, four times
Points: 2, eight times
Shots: 6 (Southern Utah, 10.12.18)
Shots on goal: 4 (Weber State, 10.7.18)
Minutes: 110, three times

Personal: A 2015 graduate of ThunderRidge High School ... The daughter of Cathlin Fowler and Steve and Cindy Fowler ... Has an older sister, Stephani, a younger brother, Casey, a younger sister, Abbie, a younger stepbrother, Cole, and a younger stepsister, Haley ... A health and human performance major.