Savannah will graduate from the Accelerated Nursing Program in December 2022. After she graduates, she already has a job secured as a RN in the Avera ICU.
2021 (Senior): Played in all 20 games while making all 20 starts...Logged 1795 minutes of game action...Recorded her first career goal which was also the game-winner in a 2-0 victory against Southwest Minnesota State...Earned D2CCA Second-Team All-Central Region honors...Named to the NSIC All-Conference First Team...Earned NSIC Defensive Player of the Week honors.
2020 (Redshirt-Junior): Fall season was cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.
2019 (Sophomore): Played in 20 games and started 19 of those games… Logged 1,719 minutes on a Vikings defense that had 11 shutouts.
2018 (Redshirt Freshman): Appeared in 4 games… Played 49 minutes.
2017 (Freshman): Didn't appear in a match.
High School: 2017 graduate of Stevens High School in Rapid City, S.D. … named first team All-State her senior season… named second team All-State her junior season… three-year letterwinner and team captain her senior season… Defensive Player of the Year her senior season… earned Academic All-State her senior season.
Club: Played for the Black Hills Rapids… coached by Mark Morgan... helped the team win South Dakota state championships in 2013 and 2015 and claim state runner-up in 2014… helped her team to win the 2016 Real Soccer Showcase in Denver and the Las Vegas Premier Invitational in 2015.
Personal: Daughter of Scott and Elizabeth Ellender… born in Fort Worth, Texas on August 1, 1998… Biology major with aspirations of attending medical school after the completion of her undergraduate studies.
