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Sarah Richardson was a key member of three Division III Championship teams at Wheaton in 2004, 2006 and 2007. She was team captain of the 2007 squad. She is the fourth all-time leading scorer for the Wheaton women's soccer team, with 170 points. Her 65 career goals rank fourth all-time, and her 40 career assists rank her third in program history. Sarah was named First Team All-CCIW in 2005, 2006 and 2007, along with first team All-Region in 2007. She was a 2007 ESPN the Magazine First Team Academic All-American and was recognized as the ESPN the Magazine Academic All-American of the Year in Division III Women's Soccer. She was the first Wheaton student-athlete to win the CCIW's Woman of the Year Award and be named to the Top-30 of the NCAA "Woman of the Year" Award.

Thinking back to the 2007 repeat National Championship season, Sarah writes, "This was my senior year, the last time I would don a Wheaton College jersey, and it couldn't have ended sweeter than with an undefeated season capped by a final victory. I also can't leave out our mission trip to Brazil and Paraguay in the summer of 2007. To visit the hometown of our beloved assistant coach Cesar Gomez and serve together as a team was another amazing opportunity for which I am incredibly grateful." Sarah is Chaplain for the Chicago Red Stars women's professional soccer club and also for the United States Women's National Soccer Team. Sarah graduated in 2008 with a degree in Business/Economics and is working on a master's degree in ministry leadership at the Wheaton College Graduate School.  Sarah and her husband Tim have four children, Caleb (age 12), Jonathan (age 10), Anna (age 8) and Sam (age 6).