Career Ended her career ranked among the top-5 in program history in points, goals, assists, shots, shots on goal, and game-winning goals ...
2008 Named to the All-Big West First Team after leading the league in points and goals ... Also ranked amongst the top-10 leaders in the conference in shots and assists ... Led the Highlanders squad in points, goals, game-winning goals, assists, shots, and shots on goal ... One of only two players on the team to start in all 20 games during the season ... Opened the season with two goals in UCR's 5-0 win at Southern Utah on August 22, including the game-winner ... Scored the game-winner in three additional contests (at Nebraska on August 29; at Cal State Fullerton on October 26; and at Cal State Northridge on October 30) ... Also scored two goals at CSF on October 26 ... Scored at least one goal in three consecutive games to end the season ...
2007 Named Big West Offensive Player of the Year and All-Big West First Team after leading the league in goals and finishing second in points ... Named Co-Player of the Week on two occasions – September 17-23 (two goals, one assist in 5-1 win over Fresno State, one goal in 3-1 loss to San Diego) and October 8-14 (one goal in 1-1 tie vs. Pacific, game-winning goal in 2-1 double overtime decision over UC Davis) ... Scored at least one goal in three consecutive games (September 21, Fresno State; September 23, San Diego; September 28, Wyoming) ... Took a season-high nine shots vs. Pacific on October 12 ... Had two game-winning goals on the year – vs. Toledo on September 2 and vs. UC Davis on October 14 ...
2006 Named to the All-Big West Second Team after finishing tied for the team lead in goals and third on the team in points ... Scored three game-winning goals on the season (September 1 vs. Oregon, September 3 vs. Southern Utah and October 20 vs. UC Irvine) ... The goal against Oregon was the first of her UC Riverside career ... One of only four players to start all 18 games for the Highlanders ...
2005 (Miami) Played at the University of Miami as a freshman ... Finished tied for second on the Hurricanes in assists, fourth in points and tied for fourth in goals ... Picked up the first goal and assist of her career vs. Monmouth on August 28 ... One of seven Miami players to play in all 20 contests ...
High School Four-year letter winner at Chaparral High School in Temecula under Head Coach Jenny Lawlor ... Helped the Pumas to the 2005 CIF Final ... Was named Southwestern League Offensive Player of the Year in 2004 and 2005 ... Earned All-Valley and All-Area Player of the Year honors in 2005 ... Named to the First Team All-CIF in 2004 and 2005 ... Scored 72 goals with 42 assists in her career, including 28 goals and 18 assists as a senior ... Named to the Honor Roll on four occasions ... Worked as a student athletics trainer ... Was a member of the 2005 national champion Laguna Hills Eclipse club team ...
Personal Tessa Kaarina Lennala is the daughter of Hannu and Anne Lennala ... Majoring in psychology ... Lists her father as her biggest athletics influence because he got her started playing soccer when she was four ... Her career goal is to get her MBA and work for a professional sports team ... Roots for Manchester United and Real Madrid ... Considers Zinedine Zidane to be her favorite athlete ... Enjoys eating “everything” ... Listens to Jack Johnson ... Lists snowboarding among her hobbies ... Her favorite movies are “Old School”, “Gladiator”, and “300” ... Watches “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Gossip Girl” and “Heroes” on TV ... Her most memorable sports moment was providing an assist on a bicycle kick in the CIF Finals ...
| Year |
Team |
GP-GS |
G |
A |
Pts |
Sh |
Shot% |
SOG |
SOG% |
YC-RC |
GW |
PK-ATT |
| 2005 |
MIA |
20-13 |
2 |
2 |
6 |
18 |
.111 |
9 |
.500 |
0-0 |
1 |
0-0 |
| 2006 |
UCR |
18-18 |
5 |
2 |
12 |
47 |
.106 |
26 |
.553 |
0-0 |
3 |
0-0 |
| 2007 |
UCR |
18-18 |
8 |
2 |
18 |
60 |
.133 |
30 |
.500 |
0-0 |
2 |
0-0 |
| 2008 |
UCR |
20-20 |
11 |
5 |
27 |
53 |
.208 |
26 |
.491 |
0-0 |
4 |
1-3 |
|
UCRT |
56-56 |
24 |
9 |
57 |
160 |
.150 |
82 |
.513 |
0-0 |
9 |
1-3 |
| |
Totals |
76-69 |
26 |
11 |
63 |
178 |
.146 |
91 |
.511 |
0-0 |
10 |
1-3 |
