Career Highlights

  • ACC champion (2025)
  • ACC Tournament champion (2025)
  • College Cup appearance (2025)
  • TopDrawerSoccer National Freshman of the Year (2025)
  • TopDrawerSoccer Freshman Best XI first team (2025)
  • ACC All-Freshman team (2025)
  • Women's College Cup All-Tournament team (2025)

As a Freshman (2025) • ACC Champions, ACC Tournament Champions

  • TopDrawerSoccer National Freshman of the Year
  • TopDrawerSoccer Freshman Best XI first team
  • ACC All-Freshman team
  • Women's College Cup All-Tournament team
  • TopDrawerSoccer Midseason Top 100 Freshmen - No. 77
  • Appeared in all 25 matches, starting 15, while totaling 1667:41 minutes
  • Minutes were fourth-most among Stanford field players
  • Managed two goals and two assists for six points
  • Converted a penalty in Stanford's 5-4 penalty kick shootout victory vs. No. 2 Notre Dame to win the ACC Tournament title (Nov. 9)
  • Scored in her collegiate debut vs. San Francisco (Aug. 14) and vs. Alabama (Nov. 21)
  • Assisted on the game-winner vs. Virginia (Nov. 6) and also contributed an assist at Pitt (Sept. 14)
  • Played 60+ minutes in 15 of her 25 matches played, including full time in six
National Team Experience
  • U.S. U-15, U-16, U-17, U-18 and U-19 Youth National Team domestic and international training camps participant
  • U.S. U-16 Mondial Montaigu Football Tournament (France)
  • U.S. U-17 Women’s World Cup (Dominican Republic)
  • U.S. U-17 Concacaf Championship (Mexico)
Prior to Stanford
  • 2025 graduate of Fairfax High School in Fairfax, Va.
  • Helped lead her team to a State Tournament appearance and a spot in the Regional Final (2023)
  • Guided her squad to a pair of District Finals (2022-23)
  • Two-time All-District first team (2022-23)
  • Two-time All-Region first team (2022-23)
  • Two-time All-State first team (2022-23)
  • All-MET first team (2023)
  • Fairfax High School Best Offensive Player (2022)
  • Competed for Virginia Development Academy (2021-25)
  • Led her club to three Mid Atlantic Conference titles (2022-23, 2025) and a National Playoffs Elite 8 appearance (2023)
  • United Soccer Coaches Youth Club National Player of the Year (2024)
  • United Soccer Coaches Youth Club All-America (2024)
  • ECNL Conference Cup Best XI (2024)
  • Two-time ECNL All-America (2022-23)
  • Two-time Mid Atlantic Player of the Year (2022-23)
  • Three-time ECNL Mid Atlantic All-Conference first team (2022-24)
Personal
  • Born in Fairfax, Va.
  • Daughter of Nga and Thieu Nguyen
  • Has two siblings, Y-Van and Duy
  • Sister, Y-Van, plays soccer at VCU
Y-Lan Nguyen
2026
Midfielder
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