UWEC Athletics Hall of Fame
Allie Rodriguez was a contemporary of fellow Class of 2024 inductee Liz Kooistra-Cass, playing on the same successful four Blugold teams from 2005 through 2008. She was a three-year All-Conference goalie and received NSCAA second-team All-American honors as a senior when she also earned the WIAC Scholar-Athlete award for soccer.
Her collegiate success of playing on the only four Blugold soccer teams to advance to the NCAA playoffs followed a highly successful high school career at Wayzata, Minnesota. Her prep squads won a state championship with one second and one third during her career.
At Eau Claire, Rodriguez was in goal during the 2006 season when the Blugolds set school and conference records with 23 victories and 18 shutouts. Rodriguez was credited with 10 of those shutouts which is still the school single-season record. That year, the Blugolds outscored their opponents, 64-10. The team won the conference and WIAC tournament championships and advanced to the third round of the NCAA playoffs, finishing 23-3 overall. During her career, the Blugolds were 28-1-2 in league play, 10-1 in conference tournament play and 74-10-11 overall. She finished with 17 career shutouts, which currently ranks second in school records.
Rodriguez graduated magna cum laude from UWEC in 2009 as a biology major. She went on to earn her master's in Physician Assistant Studies from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Following that graduation, she spent a little more than three years at MacArthur Obstetrics and Gynecology in Dallas.
She returned to Minnesota in 2016 and joined Associates in Women's Health where she was still employed at the time of her induction, dealing in women's health and reproductive medicine as a physician assistant.
At the time of her induction, she and her husband Antonio "Rod" Rodriguez, a battalion chief at the St. Louis Park Fire Department, were parents of three children: Halona (6), Hunter (4) and Ryder (2.5). They resided in Victoria, Minnesota.
