The Hawaii soccer team will be without its expected go-to scorer for the upcoming 2019 season, as coach Michele Nagamine told the Star-Advertiser that would-be junior Leialoha Medeiros has left the program for personal reasons.

Medeiros, a Kamehameha-Maui graduate, picked up All-Big West first-team honors as a sophomore after scoring seven goals with four assists and helping the Rainbow Wahine to a 9-7-1 (4-4 BWC) record. She was a focal point besides the graduated Raisa Strom-Okimoto, netting three game-winners.

“We wish Lei all the best,” Nagamine said Saturday. “Sometimes life gets in the way of soccer, and it’s always about the student-athletes’ well-being and their interest at heart.”

UH opens the season Aug. 22 against USC at Waipio Peninsula Soccer Stadium.