2025 Soccer Roster
Bentler, Eliza

Jersey Number 2
Eliza Bentler
- Year:
- Senior
- Position:
- F
- Hometown:
- Billings, Mont.
- Previous School:
- Billings Senior HS
Bio
2024 (junior season):
2023 (sophomore season):
2022 (freshman season):
Career Highs (entering the 2025 season)
Goals: 1, seven times
Assists: 1, four times
Points: 3 (MSU Billings, 8.24.23)
Shots: 5 (North Dakota State, 8.20.23)
Shots on goal: 2, two times
Minutes: 70 (North Dakota State, 8.20.23)
Prep: A 2022 graduate of Billings Senior High … A four-year starter … Voted all-state as a junior and senior … Named team’s Rookie of the Year as a freshman, Offensive Player of the Year as a sophomore, junior and senior, captain as a junior and senior … US Youth Soccer state champion with Billings United Premier and team MVP as a junior and senior … Selected for ODP regional camp … Picked up as a discovery player for Northwest Elite ECNL.
Personal: The daughter of Jim and Ceci Bentler … Has an older sister, Clara, an older brother, Finn, a younger sister, Beatrice, and a younger brother, George ... A business management major.
- Academic All-Big Sky Conference
- Played in 14 of 19 matches
- Averaged 14.6 minutes per match played
- One of team’s 12 goal-scorers
- Scored the game-winner in 2-0 home win over MSU Billings
- Netted lone goal of the season in 67th minute off a pass from Mia Parkhurst
- Took two shots on the season, put both on goal
- Played a season-high 27 minutes in home win over MSU Billings
- Logged 26 minutes at Fresno State, 23 at Wyoming
2023 (sophomore season):
- Academic All-Big Sky Conference
- Played in 18 of 19 matches, made five starts
- Ranked third on team with 11 points
- Totaled four goals and three assists
- Took 21 shots, putting nine on goal
- Put Montana up 3-0 in 12th minute in 3-1 win at North Dakota State
- Scored the next match as well, Montana’s second goal in 4-0 home win over MSU Billings
- Added Montana’s final goal in 4-0 home win over Miami (Ohio)
- Scored insurance goal in 2-0 home win over Sacramento State that clinched the Big Sky championship
- Assisted on Abby Gearhart’s goal in home win over MSU Billings, on Kathleen Aitchison’s goal in 4-0 win over Utah Tech in Spokane
- Assisted Gearhart again in 3-0 road win at Northern Colorado
- Took five shots at North Dakota State, four at Northern Arizona in Big Sky tournament semifinal match
- Played a season-high 70 minutes at North Dakota State
2022 (freshman season):
- Academic All-Big Sky Conference
- Played in 18 of 20 matches, made two starts
- Totaled 458 minutes (25.4/g)
- One of six players to score multiple goals
- Totaled two goals, one assist
- Tied for fifth on team with five points
- Took seven shots, put four on goal
- Scored first collegiate goal in 3-0 home win over CSU Bakersfield
- Scored match’s first goal in 2-1 home win over Northern Colorado
- Assisted on Riley O’Brien’s first collegiate goal in 6-0 home win over CSU Bakersfield
- Started both matches on Idaho State-Weber State road trip
- Four times played more than 40 minutes in a match
- Played 46 minutes in home match against Northern Arizona
Career Highs (entering the 2025 season)
Goals: 1, seven times
Assists: 1, four times
Points: 3 (MSU Billings, 8.24.23)
Shots: 5 (North Dakota State, 8.20.23)
Shots on goal: 2, two times
Minutes: 70 (North Dakota State, 8.20.23)
Prep: A 2022 graduate of Billings Senior High … A four-year starter … Voted all-state as a junior and senior … Named team’s Rookie of the Year as a freshman, Offensive Player of the Year as a sophomore, junior and senior, captain as a junior and senior … US Youth Soccer state champion with Billings United Premier and team MVP as a junior and senior … Selected for ODP regional camp … Picked up as a discovery player for Northwest Elite ECNL.
Personal: The daughter of Jim and Ceci Bentler … Has an older sister, Clara, an older brother, Finn, a younger sister, Beatrice, and a younger brother, George ... A business management major.
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