Team Chicago Academy-Cruzeiro winger Riley O’Brien has accepted a great scholarship offer to continue her soccer career at Illinois State University. Riley, who plays her prep soccer for head coach Laura Wagley at West Aurora H.S., will be part of ISU head coach Eric Golz’s 2018 recruiting class.

The Redbirds are a perennial powerhouse in the NCAA Division I Missouri Valley Conference. At ISU Riley will join former Team Chicago standouts Kiley Czerwinski, Keely Theobald as well as Team Chicago Academy-Brasilia standout Ashley Santos who is part of the 2017 recruiting class.