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Mijke Roelfsema (born 11 March 1998) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a defender for Scottish Women’s Premier League side Rangers.
Roelfsema played youth football with VV Schoonhoven, where she played with the boys teams. In August 2014, she joined ADO Den Haag.
In 2017, Roelfsema moved to the United States to attend Boston College, where she played for the women’s soccer team. She was offered a full scholarship to attend the program. In 2017, she earned the Athletic Director’s Award for Academic Achievement and was named to the ACC Honor Roll. She scored her first collegiate goal on September 6, 2018 against the Boston University Terriers.
In 2019, she transferred to Rice University to play for the women’s soccer. In October 2019, she was named the Conference USA Co-Defender of the Week. At the end of the 2019 season, she was named to the All-Conference USA Second Team and the All-South Region Second Team. Ahead of her second season with Rice (and fourth at the collegiate level), she was named to the Conference USA All-Preseason Team. She scored her first goal for Rice on 7 March 2021 against the North Texas Mean Green. In March…
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