Jackie Kerestine (2020) - North Texas Athletics Hall of Fame

Jackie Kerestine

Induction:
2020
Class:
2015

Kerestine is in the conversation for greatest player in UNT soccer history. Kerestine led the Mean Green to four conference regular season championships and two conference tournament championships. In the program record 90 matches she started UNT only lost 16 times. In the 40 league matches she started UNT only lost four times. As a senior captain in 2015, Kerestine led UNT to its greatest season in program history with a 19-4-1 overall record and a C-USA regular season and tournament championship. Unfortunately, Kerestine tore her ACL during warm ups of their first round 2015 NCAA Tournament match and was unable to play. That season, she led the nation in save percentage and ranked fourth in goals-against average. She set the school record for single-season shutouts with 15 and became the first goalkeeper in UNT history to eclipse 300 saves and 50 wins. Kerestine still holds every career goalkeeping record at UNT. She still ranks first in program history in games played (93) and games started (90).