Charlene Burger

Team bonding retreat to Kalispell/Glacier National Park

Year:
Senior
Position:
M
Hometown:
Vancouver, Wash.
Previous School:
3L

2017 (senior season): Four-time Academic All-Big Sky Conference... Played in all 21 contests for the Griz, earning three starts… Averaged nearly 40 minutes per game, including a career-high 73 in UM’s regular-season finale vs. Portland State (Oct. 27)… Scored the game-winning goal vs. North Dakota (Oct. 22)… The goal in the 42^nd minute was a one-timer off of a cross from Kennedy Yost… Ranked fifth on the team with 23 shots (10 on frame)… Had at least one shot attempt in UM’s final seven games, including a season-most four (three on frame) vs. the Fighting Hawks (Oct. 22).

2016 (junior season): Academic All-Big Sky Conference … Played in 19 of 20 matches … Averaged nearly 35 minutes per match off the bench … Tied for fifth on the team with four points … Scored one goal and added two assists … Scored lone goal of the season, the game-winner in 38th minute off assist from Carlee Bates, in 1-0 home victory over Boise State … Had first assist of season on Ashlee Pedersen’s goal in 34th minute in 2-0 home win over Idaho State … Assisted on Ellie Otteson’s goal in 39th minute that started rally from 2-0 deficit in 3-2 overtime win at Eastern Washington … Ranked second on team with 23 shots … Put 13 shots on goal … Eight times took multiple shots, with four at Fresno State in 1-0 loss … Played season-high 59 minutes in 1-0 loss at Eastern Washington in quarterfinals of Big Sky tournament.

2015 (sophomore season): Academic All-Big Sky Conference ... Played in 20 of 22 matches, getting one start ... Averaged 30 minutes in matches played ... One of team’s 14 goal-scorers ... Totaled one goal and two points on the season ... Lone goal of the season, the second of her career, was the game-winner in 2-1 home win over Southern Utah ... Knocked in Ellie Otteson’s blocked shot in 87th minute ... Took three of 10 shots for the season in that match ... Took two shots in 1-0 home win over Sacramento State ... Put a shot on goal in four matches ... Played a season-high 56 minutes in 1-0 loss at UC Santa Barbara ... Eleven times played 30 or more minutes.

2014 (freshman season): Academic All-Big Sky Conference ... Played in 14 of 20 matches in the midfield ... Saw action in five of the season’s first 11 matches, averaging just eight minutes ... Averaged more than 37 minutes while playing in the season’s final nine matches ... Finished the season with one goal and three assists ... Three assists tied for fourth on the team, five points tied for eighth ... Scored first collegiate goal, unassisted, in 37th minute of 7-0 victory over North Dakota ... Collected first collegiate point in first collegiate match, assisting on Hallie Widner’s second-half goal in 3-1 victory at Houston Baptist ... Other two assists came against North Dakota ... Aided on Maddy Emerick’s goal in the 41st minute and Allie Lucas’s in the 88th, the latter off a corner kick ... Three times took two shots in a match ... Put both of her shots on goal against North Dakota ... Played a season-high 57 minutes in 1-0 victory over Idaho.

Career Highs
Goals: 1, four times
Assists: 2, North Dakota (10.24.14)
Points: 4, North Dakota (10.24.14)
Shots: 4, two times
Shots on goal: 3, North Dakota (10.22.17)
Minutes: 73, Portland State (10.27.17)

Personal: A 2014 graduate of Columbia River High ... The daughter of Forrest and Karen Burger ... Has an older brother, Brian ... An elementary education major.