Leah Varela Season 2025-26

Prior to UTSA
Attended Mississippi State during the 2024 season, redshirting for the SEC Champion Bulldogs … born in San Antonio and hailing from New Mexico, she played at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, where she graduated in the top five percent of her class and helped the Ascenders to a runner-up finish at the 2021 Girls Academy League (GAL) National Championship … was recipient of the 2022 IMG Academy Athletic & Personal Development Player of the Year Award … a three-year Top-32 selection in the Girls Academy League South East Conference from 2021-2023 … was selected Olympic Development Program (ODP) State Team selection for New Mexico from 2018-2020 and also ODP Interregional Selection (West) in 2019 and 2020 … named to the Top-18 selection to play in Iceland and was selected to the 2019 New Mexico United High-Performance Program as one of three females selected … played club most recently for IMG Academy Elite 06G GAL.