2025 SLC Offensive Player of the Week (8/26)
2024 SLC All-Academic Second Team

2025 (So.): Played in 11 games and made seven starts before missing the rest of the season due to injury...Logged 498 total minutes...Tallied six total points on three goals in abbreviated action...Recorded 19 total shots, 10 of which were on goal...Named the Southland Conference Offensive Player of the Week on August 26 after scoring two goals in a 6-0 win over Texas A&M-San Antonio two days prior for the first brace of her collegiate career...Scored the game-winning goal with a successful penalty kick in a 1-0 win over Prairie View A&M on August 31.

2024 (Fr.): Was one of only eight players on the team to appear in all 20 games while making starts in 14 of them…Totaled 1,156 minutes on the season…Finished tied for third on the team with 10 total points, which came on three goals and four assists…Scored a goal in her first collegiate game on 8/15 against North Dakota…Tallied her first assist on 9/27 against McNeese…Recorded assists in three straight games to end the year against UTRGV, Lamar and Texas A&M-Commerce on 11/1-11/7, the last two coming in the Southland Conference Tournament...Finished the year with the most assists and game-winning goals recorded by a freshman in school history.

High School: Played for Plano West Senior HS...Earned First Team All-District honors in every year from 2022-2024...named JV Offensive MVP in 2020-21 and Varsity Offensive MVP every year from 2022-2024.

Personal: Born on May 25, 2006...nickname is Cil...daughter of Jenny Cardona and Juan Carlos Leal...has one sibling, Jaiden...favorite athletes are Cristiano Ronaldo and Linda Caicedo...majoring in Civil Engineering and plans to get her masters before then going into public transportation and travel after school.