The 2013 Conference USA Defensive Player of the Year, Kelsey Hodges was the first Mean Green soccer player to earn the defensive player of the year honor and is still just one of two to earn the award.
A three-time first-team all-conference selection, Hodges was the anchor of the defense for four years. Despite being a defender, she is eighth in career goals with 32 and is tied for eighth with 10 career game-winning goals. She is the only defensive player in the top 10 of either category.
Hodges, whose 7,174 minutes played ranks second in program history, led UNT to three conference championships including the 2012 Sun Belt regular-season and tournament championships. In 2011, Hodges scored the game-winning goal against Denver to win the regular-season title. During her four years in Denton, UNT won 57 matches, which ranks fifth best in program history.
In 2010 as a freshman, Hodges became just the fifth player in program history to record multiple hat tricks (three goals in one match) in a single season. To this day, only six players in the program's 25 year history have accomplished that.
She was named second-team all-region in 2012 and first-team all-region in 2013. She was named to two all-conference all-tournament teams.
Since graduating, Hodges played professional soccer in Sweden, Australia and Scotland.