AT SJSU: Completed her first season with the Spartans as a junior college transfer in 2016 ... A Mountain West All-Newcomer Team choice in her first year as a Spartan midfielder.
2016: Competed in all 20 matches and made 19 starts … Third on the team with 1,537 minutes of action … Academic All-Mountain West honoree … Selected to the Mountain West All-Newcomer Team … recorded seven points with a pair of goals and three assists from the midfield position … Scored the game-winning goal in a 2-1 win over UNLV (9/23) on the road in the Mountain West opener … Second goal of the year came at Utah State (10/9) … Recorded three assists on the year in as many matches, all of which were Spartan victories.
JUNIOR COLLEGE: The points leader for #10-nationlly ranked Modesto Junior College in 2015 … Third overall in the California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA) with 60 points at the end of the 2015 season … 21 goals and doled out 18 assists … Led Modesto JC all the way to the California State Final Four, where it would wind up third in the state, and 10th-ranked nationally by the final National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) poll … selected an all-Northern California Region midfielder.
HIGH SCHOOL: A graduate of Livingston (Calif.) High School, where she scored 22 goals and had nine assists as a senior … Finished her high school career with 28 goals and 17 assists in 31 games played.
YARITZA: Pronounced yarr-EET-sa Are-EE-sta ... Majoring in health Science ... Goes by the nickname Yari ... Enjoys swimming and paddle boarding ... A native of Turlock, Calif., who now calls Livingston, Calif., home.