KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Penn State women’s soccer graduate forward Kaitlyn MacBean closed the book on her dominant collegiate career by securing Fourth Team United Soccer Coaches All-America laurels following a release from that organization Friday.
Hailing from Excelsior, Minnesota, MacBean is fresh off yet another dominant offensive season from a statistical production standpoint. The veteran striker logged 10 goals over the course of the 2025 season in addition to an assist to publish a 21-point campaign in her final collegiate run. MacBean started and appeared in all 21 matches for Penn State en route to the program’s 32nd consecutive 10-plus-win season. She ranks prominently among Big Ten Conference competitors this season in terms of total goals, with her 10 tallies ranking third in the conference behind Michigan State’s Kennedy Bell and Ohio State’s Amanda Schlueter with 11 apiece. MacBean stands fourth in the conference with 0.48 goals per match, fifth in the league in points per match with 1.00 and finished eighth in the B1G with 21 total points.
MacBean boasts one of the most decorated careers in Penn State women’s soccer program history, cracking double digits in the goal scoring column in each of the last three seasons highlighted by a career-best 34-point outing in the 2024 season. Among student-athletes that were active over the 2025 season, MacBean ranks as the nation’s sixth-leading goal scorer and highest-scoring student-athlete at the power four conference level with 39 goals. She also boasts the 14th-most points among Division I active athletes with 88 and tallied the 16th-most matches played in the nation with 88 collegiate appearances. She stands 10th all-time at Penn State in career goals scored, with 13 of her 39 collegiate tallies going in the book as match-winning scores over the course of her four seasons in the Blue & White.
Penn State secured its 43rd all-time United Soccer Coaches All-America accolade and has logged at least one All-American in every season since 2018, an eight-year run of All-America laurels in Happy Valley. MacBean personally landed her second All-America honor following the organization’s release Friday, picking up fourth team accolades in both 2024 and 2025. Following her second consecutive selection, MacBean becomes just the 12th repeat All-American in Penn State program history, joining program legends Maya Hayes, Ali Krieger, Joanna Lohman, Erin McLeod, Alyssa Naeher, Christine Nairn, Emily Oleksiuk, Kaleigh Riehl, Katie Schoepfer, Ally Schlegel, Tiffany Weimer and Christie Welsh on that list.
Headlined by its repeat All-American in MacBean, Penn State published a solid 2025 season that included the program’s 32nd-consecutive 10-win campaign. The Nittany Lions recorded a 10-8-3 overall record this season and extended their streak of NCAA Tournament appearances to 31 consecutive, marking the second-longest active tournament appearance streak in Division I women’s soccer. MacBean, Ayscue and White helped propel PSU to an opening-round win in the tournament for the 17th year in a row, downing the Army Black Knights in a 3-0 matchup from Jeffrey Field on November 15.
This year’s All-Americans will be recognized for their accomplishments at the United Soccer Coaches All-America Ceremony & Reception on Saturday, January 17, 2026, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in conjunction with the United Soccer Coaches Convention.
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