Rio (Nika) is a quality midfielder. Her ability to move well off ball to create offense with draw and dumps with accurate feeds inside the 8 makes a big impact. She drives hard to cage in her 1v1’s with good shot placement. Her effective dodges on offense with change of speed and direction makes her efficient. She has good field awareness in transition to slow a fast break by gaining interceptions and clean checks as a key takeaway for her defense. Rio (Nika) demonstrates a strong understanding of where to move off-ball into space to secure possession on 50/50 balls from the draw circle. She does well to apply pressure on defense to create caused turnovers. She will continue to showcase even more of her defensive talents on team defense and push her creativity on offense.