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Sarah Kinzner (born August 28th, 1997) was a Canadian youth international footballer, who also played for the University of Colorado

Freshman Year (2015)
Kinzner joined the University of Colorado in 2015 as a freshman. During her freshman career Kinzner started in all 20 of her matches, recording 1,503 minutes from the central midfield role. In this time Kinzner got herself 1 goal and 2 assists. Her goal was scored against Arizona in a 3-3 draw. Kinzners two assists game in back to back games, one against New Mexico and the other against Cincinatti. Both assists resulted in victories for the University of Colorado. To wrap up her freshman year Kinzner found herself in the Pac-12 All Freshman Team.

Sophomore Year (2016)
Kinzner started her sophomore year in 2016 and continued to start all of her matches. She played 22 matches overall and during this time she helped her team to place second in the NCAA Tournament. The midfielder scored four goals during her sophomore and also got herself three assists. Kinzners four goals came against Air Force, Missouri, Drexel and Oregon State. The Canadians assists came against, Colorado State, Iowa and Washington State. Kinznser capped her successful season off by getting a 2016 Pac-12 All-Academic honourable mention with a 3.37 GPA.

Junior Year (2017)
In her junior year Kinzner helped to get Colorado to the second rounf of the NCAA tournament. In this year she helped to break her schools clean sheet record, Colorado recorded 14 clean sheets in this season. Kinzner played in 20 games in her Junior year, she made 18 starts as an outside midfielder. During her junior season Kinzner suffered an injury in a game against Washington State after being a starter in 11 matches. Again Kinzner was awarded with an Pac-12 All-Academic honourable mention with a 3.37 GPA.

Senior Year (2018)
In her final college year Kinzner recorder the third most minutes for Colorado with 1,496 minutes played in her 20 starts. In her senior year Kinzner helped her team get a 16 game unbeaten streak which was a school record. Kinzner ended her career tied for 8th in program history starts (80) and with 82 games played she tied 10th. She also ended her college career with a final Pac-12 All-Academic honourable mention.

International Career
When Sarah Kinzner was 15 when she made her debut for the Canadian youth program in 2012. Kinzner played with the Candian youth teams up until 2015 making appearances in the U17s, U20s and the U23s.

Kinzner recorded 719 minutes with the U17s squad and in this time she got herself 2 goals and 2 assists from midfield. When playing for the U17s squad, Kinzner won silver at the 2013 CONCACAF Women's Under-17 Championship and finished sixth in the Fifa U-17 Women's World Cup.

During her time with the U20s squad Kinzner recorder 307 minutes. She scored 2 goals during this time. When playing with the U20s, Kinzner won silver at the CONCACAF Womens Under-20 Championship.

In 2015 Kinzner also played briefly in the U23s squad recording 194 minutes.

Personal Life
Sarah Kinzner was born in Calgary, Alberta. Kinzner wasn't the only footballer within her family her older sister Kelsey Kinzner is a former varsity soccer player and a three-time Academic All-Canadian.

Kinzner started playing football at four years old. Football wasn't the only sport she competed in throughout her life. She also grew up playing volley ball and basket ball.