Spring 2026 Women's Soccer Roster
Roster
Kennedy Bell
- Position:
- Forward
- Height:
- 5-7
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Hough
- Hometown:
- Charlotte, NC
- Prev School:
- Maryland
Record Watch: In the 2025 season, placed among MSU's single-season all-time bests in points (29, 12th), goals (11, 11th), and assists (7, 18th).
2025 (Junior): First Team United Soccer Coaches All-Region selection ... Big Ten Forward of the Year ... Unanimous First Team All-Big Ten selection ... Hermann Trophy Midseason Watch List ... Academic All-Big Ten and CSC Academic All-District ... Big Ten regular-season scoring champion both overall (29 points, 34th NCAA) and in Big Ten games (16 points) ... Started 24 of 25 Spartan games ... Led the team in goals (11, first B1G/39th nationally) and points, and shared the team lead in assists (7 (t-second, B1G) ... Scored the first goal of the MSU season at Colorado in the 50th minute (8/14) ... Put her second goal of the season on the board in a home win over NC State (8/21) ... Contributed a goal and an assist in a 9-0 win over Milwaukee (8/24) ... Delivered her fourth goal of the season at Xavier (8/31) ... Delivered a first-half score against No. 4 UCLA (9/18) ... Registered her first brace as a Spartan and added an assist in a 4-0 victory over USC (9/21) ... Had a goal an two assists in a 6-0 win at Wisconsin (9/28) ... Top Drawer Soccer National Player of the Week and B1G Offensive Player of the Week after the UCLA and USC matches (9/22) ... Scored in her third consecutive game, posting a second-half tally at Minnesota (9/25) ... Delivered a goal and two assists in the 6-0 win at Wisconsin (9/28) ... Scored her 10th goal of the year in a 5-1 win over Illinois (10/19) ... Assisted on Emerson Sargeant's marker in a 1-0 win at Nebraska (10/26) ... Set up Emerson Sargeant's game-tying goal in the second half of the Big Ten semifinal vs. No. 17 UCLA (11/6) ... Scored MSU's first goal in the NCAA opener vs. Milwaukee (11/14) ... Assisted on Bella Najera's goal in the NCAA Elite Eight game at No. 1 Stanford (11/28) ... Earned a callup to the US U20 Women's National Team Training Camp in the summer of 2025.
2024 (at Maryland): As a sophomore, played and started all 18 matches, tallying eight points from three goals and two assists ... Had a pair of goals and an assist in a commanding win over VCU.
2023 (at Maryland) Played and started in all 18 matches as a freshman in 2023, playing the third-most minutes on the team with 1,545 ... Became Maryland's first Big Ten All-Freshman selection since the program moved to the conference in 2014 ... Had one assist on the season ... Named Big Ten Freshman of the Week on Sept. 5, 2023 ... Played 80 or more minutes in 16 out of 18 matches played.
High School/Club: Top Drawer Ranked #34 prospect in the nation ... 2019 Youth National Team Training Camp Participant ... Captain of her team at Charlotte Soccer Academy ... Two-time ECNL Conference Champion ... Named ECNL Mid-Atlantic Co-Conference Player of the year ... 2021-2022 ECNL All American ... Two-year varsity letterwinner at Hough High School ... Tallied 25 goals and 20 assists for the Huskies ... Queen City 3A/4A Conference Player of the Year as a junior ... Also earned All-Conference, All-Mid Atlantic, All-State, and All-American honors.
With Team USA: Earned a callup to the US U20 Women's National Team training camp in May 2025 held in Fayetteville, Ga.
Personal: Daughter of Myron and Kimberly Bell ... Father is a 1994 MSU graduate and four-year football letterman, and enjoyed an eight-year NFL career with Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, and appeared in Superbowl XXX with the Steelers ... Has two brothers, Corey and Major ... Majoring in Global Health Studies.
