Syracuse, NY- Utica College women's soccer head coach Brooke Barbuto will be inducted into the Corcoran High School Hall of Fame, Friday.
 
Barbuto was a five-time letter winner at Corcoran and was selected to First Team All-League, County, and State. She was named team MVP in her junior and senior campaigns, and was a five-time scholar athlete, a Who's Who among American High School Students selection, and tabbed as a United States Achievement Academy All-American Scholar.
 
Barbuto went on to have a successful collegiate career as she was a four-year starter at Stony Brook University.  While at Stony Brook she was selected to the All-Academic team, America East All-Rookie Team, All-America East First Team, NSCAA All-Northeast Region First Team, Soccer Buzz Magazine's All-Northeast Region Second Team, and America East Tournament All-Championship team. She served as team captain and was selected Most Valuable Player in her senior year.
 
In 2011 she began a successful seven year stretch of playing professional soccer overseas. In 2011 she led Haukar (Reykavik, Iceland) in scoring in the highly competitive Dield Division I league. She then spent two seasons in Kokkola, Finland where she earned a promotion from Ykkonen (Division I) to Naisten Liiga, was a one year captain, and the 2013 MVP. From 2014-2016 she played for NiceFutis (Pori, Finland) in the country's highest professional soccer league.  She was a two year captain, league MVP and was nominated for top athlete in Pori. Her professional career came to a close in 2017 as she guided the Peninsula Power (Brisbane, Australia) to a National Premier League Queensland Championship. She led the team and the NPL in goals scored.
 
Barbuto is in her third year at Utica.  She has led the Pioneers to back-to-back Empire 8 Championship game appearances.  In 2019 Utica captured its first ever E8 title and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history.  Last year, the Pioneers lost in overtime of the conference final.