For Alice Binns, a childhood spent in Uphams Corner meant football and kickball games. Now a senior at Boston University, she’s headed to Winston-Salem in North Carolina where the Terriers will face off against the Wake Forest University women’s soccer team tomorrow. The Friday tournament game will feature top-seeded Wake Forest against BU, with the 22-year-old health science major in goal for the Terriers.

The daughter of Christopher Binns and Kristen McCormack, founder of the Greater Boston Food Bank and the Neighborhood House Charter School, Binns has started nine games as a senior and has a record of 7-0-1 after the team, on a 14-game winning streak, beat Harvard University last weekend.

“My mom always tells me you have only one job on the field and it’s just ‘don’t let the ball in the back of the net,’” Binns said in an interview. “It’s just you gotta do what you gotta do. You just have to play in that moment.”

In 2010, when she was a junior, she picked up America East Goalkeeper of the Year award, playing thirteen games and allowing only five goals throughout the season, according to Boston University records. According to her bio on the university’s athletics site, she helped “guide a defense to one of the longest shutout streaks” in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

In an earlier time, Binns played for Dorchester Youth Soccer, the All Dorchester Sports League, and in Savin Hill’s baseball league. “It was kind of a neighborhood thing,” she said. She also played soccer while at Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill.

Asked about her favorite part about growing up in Dorchester, Binns pointed to an old peach tree that her father had growing in his yard, and a brick wall located on Upham Ave. “We’d always make a square on it and we’d pretend we were pitchers on the Red Sox,” she said. They could always tell where they had hit because of the peaches left a mark on the brick wall. There’s always something to do and you could always take the train anywhere you wanted,” she said of Dorchester. “You could play in the streets.”

Binns describes her mother and father as avid soccer fans. “They’ve always been a big influence and they’ve always supported me along the way,” she said. “I would have just ridiculous practices far away, and they would always drive me.” She recalled outdoor practices in the middle of February, in places like Acton, a town 23 miles away. “Some of my games have been all over Massachusetts,” she said.

Both parents will be in North Carolina for tomorrow’s game. BU will be playing in the second round of the 2011 NCAA tournament which also features a Marquette-Penn State matchup and the winners will play each other on Sunday at Wake Forest’s Spry Stadium.

“It should be fun. There’s just so much going for us,” Binns said. “It’s going to be nerve wracking but it’s going to also be a fun ride. We have what it takes, I think. But we just have to show it.”