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Jersey Number 21
AJ Loera
- Position:
- MID
- Height:
- 5-4
- Class:
- Fifth Year
- HS:
- The Academy
- Hometown:
- Thornton, Colo.
GCU
2026 | Fifth Year
2026 | Fifth Year
- Returned to the team for her fifth year in mid-August.
- Finished career with 5 goals and 17 assists in just under 5000 minutes played in her four-year GCU career
- Third all-time in assists at Grand Canyon
- Appeared in 17/18 matches, starting 16 of them in the midfield in 2025
- Recorded a goal and assist in final season, scoring in the 2-1 win at UNLV
- Team Captain
- Earned All-WAC Tournament.
- All-WAC Second Team
- 2024 CSC Academic All-District Team
- Team leader in Points (11), Shots (36), Goals (3), Shots on Goal (16), and Assists (5).
- Finished with a goal and an assist in the WAC Championship game.
- All-WAC Academic Team
- 2023 All-WAC First Team
- WAC All-Academic Team
- United Soccer Coaches All-Pacific Region (3rd Team)
- Seven assists on the season, with two vs. SFA on 10/15
- An assist and two shots on goal in the WAC Championship
- Named to the All-WAC Freshman team.
- Led all GCU freshman with 17 appearances, 14 starts and 1,094 minutes.
- Finished with one goal and four assists.
- Scored first collegiate goal at UNLV on Aug. 25.
- Had an assist in three straight matches from Oct. 9-16.
- Was a dual-sport athlete in high school playing both soccer and basketball.
- Finished with 39 goals in 11 games.
- Named Frontier League Player of the Year and First Team All-State.
- Also named Team Captain.
- Parents are Tia and Juan Loera.
- Older sister Alexis was the 36th overall pick in the 2021 NSWL Draft out of Santa Clara.
- Alexis was a three-time WCC Defensive Player of the Year and a 2020 National Champion.
- Chose GCU because of the campus and soccer coaching staff.
- Favorite team to watch growing up was FC Barcelona.
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Thursday, September 17
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