2019 Women's Soccer Roster
King, Tziarra
Meet Head Women's Soccer Coach Gary Higgins
Friday, December 20
EmpowHER - NC State Women's Soccer's Book Club
Wednesday, February 07
EmpowHER: Women's Soccer
Tuesday, February 06
2023 NC State Women's Soccer Season Recap
Monday, December 11
Jersey Number 2
Tziarra King
- Class:
- Senior
- Height:
- 5-8
- Hometown:
- Sicklerville, N.J.
Bio
2016 All-ACC Freshman Team
2016 All-ACC Third Team
2016 NSCAA Southeast Region Team
2016 TopDrawerSoccer Top 100 Freshmen (28th)
2016 All-ACC Academic Team
2017 ACC Honor Roll
2017 All-ACC First Team
2017 United Soccer Coaches All-East Region First Team
2017 ACC All-Tournament Team
2017 TopDrawerSoccer Best XI Third Team
2017 TopDrawerSoccer Top 100 Players (26th)
2017 All-ACC Academic Team
2018 ACC Honor Roll
2018 MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List
2018 All-ACC Second Team
2018 United Soccer Coaches All-Atlantic Region Second Team
2018 CoSIDA Google Cloud Academic All-District First Team
2018 CoSIDA Google Clould Academic All-America First Team
2018 United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-South Region Second Team
2018 TopDrawerSoccer Top 100 Players (47th)
2018 All-ACC Academic Team
2019 ACC Honor Roll
2019 All-ACC First Team
2019 ACC All-Tournament Team
2019 United Soccer Coaches All-Region First Team
2019 United Soccer Coaches All-America Third Team
2019 CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team
2019 CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team
2019 United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-South Region First Team
2019 United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-America Second Team
2019 TopDrawerSoccer Best XI Second Team
2019 TopDrawerSoccer Top 100 Players (15th)
2019 All-ACC Academic Team
2019 ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year
As a Senior (2019): Started 22 of a possible 23 matches with 1,873 minutes to finish third all-time with 88 career starts…Also finished third all-time in career goals (48) and points (115)…Tallied 13 goals and 32 points on the year to finish top three in the ACC and top 35 in the NCAA in both categories…Had multi-goal outings vs. Georgetown on Aug. 25 and at East Carolina on Sept. 18, as well as her second career hat trick on Sept. 15 vs. Furman…Tallied a career-high seven points at East Carolina…Had six assists on the year to finish 10th all-time in the category…Earned All-ACC First Team, United Soccer Coaches First Team All-Region, United Soccer Coaches Third Team All-America, TopDrawerSoccer Best XI Second Team, CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team and United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-America Second Team honors…Became the second player in program history to be a four-time All-ACC selection and earn multiple scholar All-America honors in her career…Became the first player since 1995 to collect All-America honors from a publication…Became the first player in program history to earn scholar All-America honors from multiple publications...Named ACC Offensive Player of the Week on Sept. 24 and Nov. 5...Named to the 2019 ACC All-Tournament Team.
As a Junior (2018): Started all 22 matches on the year and played 1,928 minutes…Led the team in goals (10) and points (26)…Earned All-ACC Second Team honors as those numbers ranked top five in the ACC…Also earned United Soccer Coaches All-Atlantic Region Second Team Honors…Was named to the MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List in the preseason…Also led the team in shots (63), putting 25 on target…Scored the game-winners at Navy and Penn…Tallied a season-high four points at Navy and Syracuse, and had a multi-goal performance at Navy…Named to the CoSIDA Google Cloud Academic All-District and All-America Teams, as well as the United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-South Region Team thanks to her success in the classroom...Finished 47th on TopDrawerSoccer's Top 100 Player Rankings.
As a Sophomore (2017): Led the team in goals (17) and points (40)… Started all 22 matches in 2017, logging 1,716 minutes on the field… Recorded her first career hat trick in the team’s 4-1 win over Notre Dame in the ACC Championship quarterfinals… Scored a pair of goals on four separate occasions (vs. ECU, Syracuse, Louisville, Arkansas)… Tallied a team-high five game-winners… Named to the United Soccer Coaches All-East Region First Team, All-ACC First Team and ACC All-Tournament thanks to a stellar campaign… Named ACC Offensive Player of the Week twice and United Soccer Coaches Player of the Week once… Also featured on Top Drawer Soccer’s Team of the Week after the Pack’s opening weekend in Oregon… Ranks sixth in the program’s all-time record book for most goals in a single season and seventh for most points in a single season… Finished second in the ACC in goals and points… Ranked fourth in goals and fifth in points among the NCAA… Selected to train with the United States U-23 National Team... Finished 26th on Top Drawer Soccer's Top 100 national player rankings... Also was named to Top Drawer Soccer's Best XI Third Team.
As a Freshman (2016): Led the team in goals (8) and points (17)…Recorded 1702 minutes…Ranked 11th in program history for points in a freshman season with 17…Ranked 7th in program history for goals in a freshman season with 8…First Wolfpack player to make the All-ACC Third Team and Freshman Team in a single season since Jackie Stengel accomplished the feat in 2013…Started all 22 matches for the Wolfpack…Led the team with four game-winning-goals…Scored a brace in win over Navy…Scored from 25 yards in win over UNC-Wilmington…Scored a penalty kick in win over Wake Forest…Added a goal against Clemson…Scored an OT game-winner against Pitt to clinch the Pack’s first ACC Championship appearance since 2006…Recorded a penalty kick in the PK shootout over Minnesota, helping the squad advance to the second round of the NCAA Championship…Concluded the year ranked 28th on TDS Top-100 Freshman List... Selected to train with the United States U-23 and U-19 National Teams.
Prior to NC State: Played club soccer for Winslow Tigers (NJYS State Soccer Champion, USFF State, Regional, and National Futsal Champion and USYF Atlantic Regional Futsal Champion) … Also played club soccer with the 2015 US Club Mid-Atlantic Regional Champion and 2015 NEWSS Champion Princeton SA IGFA 97/98 Tigers NPL … Twice selected to the United States Youth Futsal National Team (U16 in 2014 and U18 in 2015) and competed internationally in Toronto and San Jose (Costa Rica) … Was team captain with her 2015 Futsal club … A 2015 Esmark All-American as a high school soccer player for Winslow Township High School … Named a First-Team All-South Jersey striker in 2014 and 2015 … Earned NJ.com All-State First-Team honors in 2015 … Set a record at Winslow as the all-time leading scorer (both girls and boys) with 105 career goals and 36 assists … During her high school senior season, scored 51 goals and added 14 assists to lead the entire state of New Jersey … As a high school junior, scored 37 goals and added seven assists, one time scoring five goals in a single playoff game … Earned a place on the school Honor Roll all four years … Member of the National Honor Society and the Mu Alpha Theta National High School Mathematics Honor Society … Was a track and field state champion in 2014 in both the indoor and outdoor 4x400 … Father played collegiate basketball … Mother is a pharmacist … Two brothers are both former collegiate soccer players … The “T” in her name is silent and she goes by the nickname “Zee.”
“Zee is a complete player who is extremely gifted technically and is off the charts athletically,” Tim Santoro said. “She’s a very competitive and driven person who will add a lot to the team makeup. Her dribbling, vision, and passing, as well as ability to score goals from the midfield, will inject a lot into our attack.”
2016 All-ACC Third Team
2016 NSCAA Southeast Region Team
2016 TopDrawerSoccer Top 100 Freshmen (28th)
2016 All-ACC Academic Team
2017 ACC Honor Roll
2017 All-ACC First Team
2017 United Soccer Coaches All-East Region First Team
2017 ACC All-Tournament Team
2017 TopDrawerSoccer Best XI Third Team
2017 TopDrawerSoccer Top 100 Players (26th)
2017 All-ACC Academic Team
2018 ACC Honor Roll
2018 MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List
2018 All-ACC Second Team
2018 United Soccer Coaches All-Atlantic Region Second Team
2018 CoSIDA Google Cloud Academic All-District First Team
2018 CoSIDA Google Clould Academic All-America First Team
2018 United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-South Region Second Team
2018 TopDrawerSoccer Top 100 Players (47th)
2018 All-ACC Academic Team
2019 ACC Honor Roll
2019 All-ACC First Team
2019 ACC All-Tournament Team
2019 United Soccer Coaches All-Region First Team
2019 United Soccer Coaches All-America Third Team
2019 CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team
2019 CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team
2019 United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-South Region First Team
2019 United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-America Second Team
2019 TopDrawerSoccer Best XI Second Team
2019 TopDrawerSoccer Top 100 Players (15th)
2019 All-ACC Academic Team
2019 ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year
As a Senior (2019): Started 22 of a possible 23 matches with 1,873 minutes to finish third all-time with 88 career starts…Also finished third all-time in career goals (48) and points (115)…Tallied 13 goals and 32 points on the year to finish top three in the ACC and top 35 in the NCAA in both categories…Had multi-goal outings vs. Georgetown on Aug. 25 and at East Carolina on Sept. 18, as well as her second career hat trick on Sept. 15 vs. Furman…Tallied a career-high seven points at East Carolina…Had six assists on the year to finish 10th all-time in the category…Earned All-ACC First Team, United Soccer Coaches First Team All-Region, United Soccer Coaches Third Team All-America, TopDrawerSoccer Best XI Second Team, CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team and United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-America Second Team honors…Became the second player in program history to be a four-time All-ACC selection and earn multiple scholar All-America honors in her career…Became the first player since 1995 to collect All-America honors from a publication…Became the first player in program history to earn scholar All-America honors from multiple publications...Named ACC Offensive Player of the Week on Sept. 24 and Nov. 5...Named to the 2019 ACC All-Tournament Team.
As a Junior (2018): Started all 22 matches on the year and played 1,928 minutes…Led the team in goals (10) and points (26)…Earned All-ACC Second Team honors as those numbers ranked top five in the ACC…Also earned United Soccer Coaches All-Atlantic Region Second Team Honors…Was named to the MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List in the preseason…Also led the team in shots (63), putting 25 on target…Scored the game-winners at Navy and Penn…Tallied a season-high four points at Navy and Syracuse, and had a multi-goal performance at Navy…Named to the CoSIDA Google Cloud Academic All-District and All-America Teams, as well as the United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-South Region Team thanks to her success in the classroom...Finished 47th on TopDrawerSoccer's Top 100 Player Rankings.
As a Sophomore (2017): Led the team in goals (17) and points (40)… Started all 22 matches in 2017, logging 1,716 minutes on the field… Recorded her first career hat trick in the team’s 4-1 win over Notre Dame in the ACC Championship quarterfinals… Scored a pair of goals on four separate occasions (vs. ECU, Syracuse, Louisville, Arkansas)… Tallied a team-high five game-winners… Named to the United Soccer Coaches All-East Region First Team, All-ACC First Team and ACC All-Tournament thanks to a stellar campaign… Named ACC Offensive Player of the Week twice and United Soccer Coaches Player of the Week once… Also featured on Top Drawer Soccer’s Team of the Week after the Pack’s opening weekend in Oregon… Ranks sixth in the program’s all-time record book for most goals in a single season and seventh for most points in a single season… Finished second in the ACC in goals and points… Ranked fourth in goals and fifth in points among the NCAA… Selected to train with the United States U-23 National Team... Finished 26th on Top Drawer Soccer's Top 100 national player rankings... Also was named to Top Drawer Soccer's Best XI Third Team.
As a Freshman (2016): Led the team in goals (8) and points (17)…Recorded 1702 minutes…Ranked 11th in program history for points in a freshman season with 17…Ranked 7th in program history for goals in a freshman season with 8…First Wolfpack player to make the All-ACC Third Team and Freshman Team in a single season since Jackie Stengel accomplished the feat in 2013…Started all 22 matches for the Wolfpack…Led the team with four game-winning-goals…Scored a brace in win over Navy…Scored from 25 yards in win over UNC-Wilmington…Scored a penalty kick in win over Wake Forest…Added a goal against Clemson…Scored an OT game-winner against Pitt to clinch the Pack’s first ACC Championship appearance since 2006…Recorded a penalty kick in the PK shootout over Minnesota, helping the squad advance to the second round of the NCAA Championship…Concluded the year ranked 28th on TDS Top-100 Freshman List... Selected to train with the United States U-23 and U-19 National Teams.
Prior to NC State: Played club soccer for Winslow Tigers (NJYS State Soccer Champion, USFF State, Regional, and National Futsal Champion and USYF Atlantic Regional Futsal Champion) … Also played club soccer with the 2015 US Club Mid-Atlantic Regional Champion and 2015 NEWSS Champion Princeton SA IGFA 97/98 Tigers NPL … Twice selected to the United States Youth Futsal National Team (U16 in 2014 and U18 in 2015) and competed internationally in Toronto and San Jose (Costa Rica) … Was team captain with her 2015 Futsal club … A 2015 Esmark All-American as a high school soccer player for Winslow Township High School … Named a First-Team All-South Jersey striker in 2014 and 2015 … Earned NJ.com All-State First-Team honors in 2015 … Set a record at Winslow as the all-time leading scorer (both girls and boys) with 105 career goals and 36 assists … During her high school senior season, scored 51 goals and added 14 assists to lead the entire state of New Jersey … As a high school junior, scored 37 goals and added seven assists, one time scoring five goals in a single playoff game … Earned a place on the school Honor Roll all four years … Member of the National Honor Society and the Mu Alpha Theta National High School Mathematics Honor Society … Was a track and field state champion in 2014 in both the indoor and outdoor 4x400 … Father played collegiate basketball … Mother is a pharmacist … Two brothers are both former collegiate soccer players … The “T” in her name is silent and she goes by the nickname “Zee.”
“Zee is a complete player who is extremely gifted technically and is off the charts athletically,” Tim Santoro said. “She’s a very competitive and driven person who will add a lot to the team makeup. Her dribbling, vision, and passing, as well as ability to score goals from the midfield, will inject a lot into our attack.”