Awards/Honors: All-ACC Academic Team (2022, 2023) … ACC Honor Roll (2022, 2023, 2024).
Career: Saw action in 37 matches, while starting 18… helped lead Duke to 17 shutouts over her four years on the pitch.
Graduate 2025:
Senior 2024: Started the season opener and played in the first three matches, before suffering a lower body injury and missed the remainder of the season … helped lead the Blue Devils to two shutouts in three matches.
Junior 2023: Earned All-ACC Academic Team honors for the second straight year … started 14-of-15 matches and saw action in 1,208 minutes … helped lead Duke to five shutouts on the defensive end … played the full 90 minutes in seven matches … missed two matches due to injuries … named to the ACC Honor Roll.
Sophomore 2022: An All-ACC Academic Team selection … hampered by injuries for a lot of the season, which limited her to only playing in 12 matches … made one start against North Carolina (9/8) … was a part of six team shutouts on the defensive end … saw action in a season-high 58 minutes against Charlotte (8/28) and played 57 minutes on the road at Syracuse (9/16).
Freshman 2021: Made first career start versus Western Carolina (Aug. 26), playing the entire first half … logged 58 minutes in 2-0 win at Vanderbilt (Aug. 29) … played 62 minutes in win over No. 10 Stanford (Sept. 2) … played entire match in win over East Carolina (Sept. 9) … missed final 14 matches of 2021 season after sustaining knee injury at No. 2 North Carolina (Sept. 17).
Prior to Duke: Ranked as the No. 15 overall recruit by TopDrawerSoccer.com in the 2021 class … listed as the eighth-best defender in the class and No. 1 in the South Atlantic regional ledger … a two-time United Soccer Coaches All-America selection in 2017 and 2019 … played for Tophat Club team in Atlanta area … attended the Boca Raton, Fla. ODP camp in 2015 and Arizona ODP camp in 2016 … trained with the U-17 National Team in January and February of 2020 … traveled to Sweden with the U-17 National Team in September of 2019 … trained with the U-17 National Team in June of 2019 … member of the U-17 National Team that went to Portugal in May of 2019 … traveled to England in February of 2019 with the U-18 National Team … competed in the Third Annual U-17 Women’s Torneo delle Nazioni with the U.S. U-16 National Team in Italy and Slovenia in 2018 … traveled with the U-16 National Team to China in 2018 … went to Germany with the U-15 National Team in 2017 … trained with the U-14 and U-15 National Teams in 2016 and 2017.
Personal: Full name is Baleigh Bruster … daughter of Sherman and Kathy Bruster … has one sister, Kayla … her sister, Kayla, was a member of the Georgia women’s soccer team (2017-21) … member of the National Honors Society as a junior and senior … a three-time Dean Academic Honor Roll selection … majoring in psychology.
