NCAA Highlight: Cayla Barnes →

Cayla Barnes' second freshman year at Boston College is likely going to go very differently than her first.

She has started her red-shirt freshman season at Boston College after winning gold with Team USA at the Pyeongchang Olympics. Heading into last year, Barnes enrolled at BC after not being named to the initial USA centralization roster. She played in five games for the Eagles before she got a surprise phone call asking her to join Team USA in Tampa.

Barnes left school on October 28 and, less than two weeks later, tallied two goals and an assist with the national team as they took gold in the Four Nations Cup. Just more than four months later, Barnes was suiting up for the Olympics as the youngest player on the team, having just turned 19 in early January.