Lexi Wright Nominated for Allstate NACDA Good Works Team

UCLA girls’s soccer redshirt senior Lexi Wright has been introduced as a nominee for the inaugural Allstate NACDA Good Works Team (Fall). The award acknowledges female and male student-athletes throughout all divisions and sports activities who go above and past of their dedication to neighborhood service, tutorial achievement and athletic efficiency. 

Wright, a ahead from Carlsbad, Calif., helps kids with most cancers by Zoe’s Goal-Scoring Against Childhood Cancer, a non-profit group that’s dedicated to reworking the lives of kids battling most cancers by elevating consciousness about pediatric most cancers, advocating for analysis and funding and supporting your most cancers sufferers. Wright does common hospital visits to UCLA’s Mattel Children’s Hospital to go to with sufferers.

“Hearing Zoe’s story and how she persevered inspired me to use my platform to bring hope and joy to those facing unimaginable challenges,” Wright stated. “Being so close to the UCLA Hospital gives me and my team the unique opportunity to regularly visit and spend time with these incredible kids. Whether it’s playing games, sharing laughs or simply being present, the connection we build brings light to their days – and ours! Seeing their resilience inspires me every day, and the joy exchanged is something that is always a blessing.”

Additionally, Wright has labored with the UCLA campus group Unified, which performs sports activities with particular wants youngsters weekly and holds an Inclusive Sports Day. She additionally volunteers with Football For Her, a non-profit group that gives a protected area and motivates those that determine as feminine or non-binary to play, no matter their financial standing. 

Wright has received three convention championships and a NCAA title as a member of the UCLA girls’s soccer crew. In 2022, she scored the Bruins’ first aim within the nationwide championship recreation to spark a memorable late-game comeback that led to UCLA profitable its second NCAA crown and was named to the College Cup All-Tournament Team. Wright completed that 12 months with eight targets, six assists and 22 factors, rating third on the crew in all three classes. She adopted up that season with a third-team all-conference nod, once more rating third on the crew with six targets and 15 factors. She was compelled to take a seat out final 12 months with an damage however earned Academic All-Big Ten honors.

A distinguished choice committee of athletics administrators, former athletes and trade leaders will select the ultimate 20-member crew — 10 feminine and 10 male student-athletes — set to be introduced August 26. One pupil captain may also be named to signify the group. Click here to view the complete record of nominees for the 2025-26 Allstate NACDA Good Works Team (Fall). The Allstate NACDA Good Works Team now acknowledges 60 student-athletes yearly throughout fall, winter and spring seasons, surpassing greater than 500 nominees throughout its first 12 months.