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Mary Gintz

Year:
Redshirt Senior
Position:
D
Hometown:
San Jose, Calif.
Previous School:
3L

2015 (junior season): Academic All-Big Sky Conference ... Voted team’s Most Outstanding Defensive Player ... Played in all 22 matches, getting 21 starts ... Averaged nearly 80 minutes per match at outside back ... Totaled third-most minutes of team’s field players, behind fellow defenders Tess Brenneman and Chanelle Pederson ... Finished fifth on the team with six points ... Had one goal and four assists ... Assists total the second highest on the team behind Mackenzie Akins’ five ... Took a team-high 30 corner kicks ... Scored first collegiate goal, the team’s first of the season, in 18th minute in 4-3 double-overtime home win over Indiana State ... Assisted on Dani Morris’s game-winner in that match off a throw-in in 107th minute ... Assisted again on Morris’s game-opening goal in fourth minute in road loss at Utah Valley ... Assisted on Carlee Bates’ first collegiate goal in 3-2 loss at Northern Colorado and Payton Agnew’s first collegiate goal in 3-2 loss at Idaho in Big Sky tournament semifinal ... Member of a defensive unit that produced seven shutouts, which tied for second in the Big Sky, and allowed 1.44 goals per game, the fourth-best average in the Big Sky ... Took 12 shots on the season, putting three on goal ... Played all 90 minutes in five of season’s final six matches.

2014 (sophomore season): Academic All-Big Sky Conference ... Honorable mention All-Big Sky Conference ... Voted team’s Citius, Altius, Fortius award winner ... Started all 20 matches ... Played 1,524 minutes (76.2/g) at outside back, third most of any field player ... Key member of a defensive unit that produced 10 shutouts and finished the season with a Big Sky-leading 0.87 goals against average ... Montana allowed its opponents to average just 5.4 shots on goal per match ... Three times took a shot in a match, with one on goal in 0-0 draw at Northern Arizona ... Played 101 or more minutes in double-overtime matches against Missouri, Northern Arizona and Southern Utah ... Four times played all 90 minutes in matches Montana won in regulation.

2013 (freshman season): Academic All-Big Sky Conference ... Played in all 19 matches, getting two starts late in the season ... Averaged 50 minutes per game in a reserve role at outside back ... Member of a defensive unit that posted six shutouts and finished the season with a 1.25 goals-against average ... Collected first collegiate point with an assist on Maddey Frey’s second-half goal in 2-0 victory over Nevada ... Played all 90 minutes in 1-0 loss to Portland State ... Six times played 60 or more minutes ... Twice took a season-high two shots, with one on goal in 4-0 win at UC Riverside.

2012: Redshirt season

Career Highs (entering the 2016 season)
Goals: 1, Indiana State (8.23.15)
Assists: 1, five times
Points: 3, Indiana State (8.23.15)
Shots: 3, Idaho State (10.16.15)
Shots on goal: 1, five times
Minutes: 108, Southern Utah (10.19.14)

Personal: A 2012 graduate of Leigh High ... Born October 27, 1993, in San Jose, Calif. ... The daughter of John and Vicki Gintz ... Has two older brothers, Jason and Cody ... A marketing major.