NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Former Yale University women's soccer standout Alyssa Fagel '20 has been awarded a $10,000 scholarship for part-time or full-time graduate study at a university or professional school by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Postgraduate Scholarship Committee.
 
Fagel was Yale's 2020 Molly Meyer Humanitarian Award recipient, which is given annually to male and female senior student-athletes whose character exemplifies selfless devotion along with compassion and concern for their team and the community at Yale and beyond.
 
"Yale afforded me the opportunity to be a true student-athlete. During my four years, I was able to play soccer at the highest collegiate level while also having time to explore my academic interests," said Fagel. "My coaches supported my decision to pursue full-time summer internships in the legal sector, and I was inspired by my teammates whose passion for soccer was matched only by their dedication to achieving personal and professional success after graduation." 

The San Carlos, Calif., native was instrumental in Yale women's soccer team's impressive heights in 2019. The team captain for the Bulldogs was the voice of the team as they transitioned to a new staff and went on to post the most wins in a season in nearly 15 years. She was an All-Ivy League honorable mention selection. Prior to her senior season, she won a gold medal with Team USA at the European Maccabi Games in Budapest, Hungary
 
Fagel was also involved heavily in the community as part of the New Haven Reads program where she was active in supervising the field trips for local elementary schools. She was also a part of a group that spent one hour per week at the Boys and Girls Club mentoring and playing soccer with middle-school-aged children in the New Haven community.
 
In 2017 she was a summer legal intern at Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. The following year, she participated in a program called Lawyers without Borders in which she helped organize training programs on wildlife crime and human trafficking in Tanzania and Kenya, respectively.
 


She has now transitioned into work in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York where she works as a Litigation Analyst in the Civil Rights Section. She has worked on high profile cases including the sex-trafficking and racketeering trial of former R&B star R. Kelly.