Salisbury’s Caylin Meikrantz isn’t one to wear her emotions on her sleeve. She’s humble, modest and low-key, even when it comes to her play on the soccer field.

If it wasn’t for an announcement, you might not even know the junior had recently broke the Salisbury girls soccer team’s career assists record. That’s just the way she is, and she’s perfectly fine with it.

Meikrantz broke the long-held record in style, too, recording seven assists in an 8-1 win against Palmerton on October 6. She had just four assists in the team’s first 12 games, carrying on more of a goal-scoring role, but her fourth assist against the Blue Bombers gave her 35 career assists and the Falcons’ new record.

“I was really excited,” said Meikrantz, who is up to 38 career assists. “I mean, I didn’t want to be really excited to brag about it. I was kind of low-key about it.

“I kind of keep it in. I don’t feel like I need to do that to be respectable. I’m humble about everything.”

She might not have showed a great deal of emotion, but Meikrantz was certainly pleased with capturing a goal she had set for herself last season after posting 18 assists as a sophomore. It may have just taken a tad longer than she expected.

“The whole season I really didn’t have a lot,” Meikrantz said. “I only had like three or four before [the Palmerton game]. It was nearing the end of the season, so I didn’t think I would have a lot of assists this year.

“I was pretty nervous because I thought I would be able to break it early in the season. They wanted me to be a goal-scorer since we lost a key player last year who scored all of the goals.”

That key player was Mackenzie Groff, who broke the program’s record for most career goals scored.

While the assists didn’t come as quickly as she would’ve anticipated, Meikrantz stepped into a new role and has thrived tremendously. She’s right near the top of Salisbury goal-scorers this year, while also posting 11 assists along the way.

None of her 38 assists were more memorable than the record-breaking No. 35 to Sarah Reilly.

“Someone passed it to me in the middle, and I saw Sarah Reilly on the line right in front of the goal behind a defender,” Meikrantz said. “I said, ‘Go, Sarah,’ and then I just spotted it right between a gap and between two defenders. She ran onto it and had to touch it one time into the net.”

Needing four assists to break the record heading into that Palmerton game, Meikrantz couldn’t have imagined that would be the day she would rewrite history. But arguably Salisbury’s best game moving the ball helped the offense move through Meikrantz in the middle.

“I didn’t expect to actually break it that day,” Meikrantz said. “But we were connecting as a team really well, and it was one of our best passing games of the whole season. I was trying to be where I needed to be the whole game to help our team score goals. The opportunities I created just happened.

“I felt like that game we utilized everyone. I felt I got the ball more, and I obviously was just trying to get open wherever I could be….I felt like everyone was moving off the ball; more movement off the ball was key during that game.”

Meikrantz and the Falcons fell short of achieving one of their goals: earning a berth in the Colonial League tournament. But before the junior’s season comes to a close, Salisbury will look to make noise in the upcoming District Class AA tournament.

Meikrantz has garnered plenty of Division I attention as her third season winds down. Quinnipiac University, American University, Villanova University, Bucknell University and Saint Joseph’s University headline her list of choices.