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2023 Houston Dash Season
The 2023 Houston Dash season was the team's tenth season as an American professional women's soccer team in the National Women's Soccer League. Season Pre-season Immediately following the 2022 Houston Dash season, Houston Dash started their preparation for the 2023 NWSL Season. On November 15, 2022, the team announced that it was 14 players as worked to build their 2023 roster. The declined Valérie Gauvin's option, released Elizabeth Eddy, Cali Farquharson to free agency, and Michelle Alozie, Michaela Abam, Makamae Gomera-Stevens, Kelcie Hedge, Emily Ogle, Ally Prisock, Annika Schmidt, Natalie Jacobs, Lindsey Harris, Tiernny Wiltshire, and Brianna Visalli were all out of contract. On the same day the team announced it was purchasing Paulina Gramaglia option, after her loan. On December 8, 2022, the Dash announced that they had resigned Michelle Alozie to a new contract, adding depth to attack. December 14, 2022, the team continued to build its attacking capabilit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houston Dash
The Houston Dash is a professional Women's association football, women's soccer team based in Houston, Texas. It joined the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) in the 2014 National Women's Soccer League season, 2014 season, and is affiliated with the MLS team Houston Dynamo, Houston Dynamo FC. History Establishment On November 19, 2013, the Houston Dynamo began talks in the initial stages with the intention of bringing a top flight women's professional soccer franchise to Houston. Just a week later, the effort was bolstered when the Dynamo began accepting refundable deposits for a potential NWSL expansion team. On December 11, 2013, the National Women's Soccer League awarded the Houston Dynamo and the city of Houston an expansion franchise. Team name, crest, and colors During a press conference on December 12, 2013, Houston Dynamo president Chris Canetti announced that the club would be named the Houston Dash and would share similar colors to the Dynamo: orange, black, and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Association Football
Women's association football, more commonly known simply as women's football or women's soccer, is a team sport of association football when played by women only. It is played at the professional level in multiple countries and 176 national teams participate internationally. The history of women's football has seen competitions being launched at both the national and international levels. After the "first golden age" of women's football occurred in the United Kingdom in the 1920s, with one match attracting over 50,000 spectators, The Football Association instituted a ban from 1921 to 1970 in England that disallowed women's football on the grounds used by its member clubs. In many other nations, female footballers faced similarly hostile treatment and bans by male-dominated organisations. In the 1970s, international women's football tournaments were extremely popular and the oldest surviving continental championship was founded, the Women's Asian Cup. However, FIFA did not a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulina Gramaglia
Paulina Gramaglia (born 21 March 2003) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Red Bull Bragantino on loan from National Women's Soccer League club Houston Dash, and for the Argentina women's national team. Club career Gramaglia has played for Talleres de Córdoba and UAI Urquiza Club Deportivo UAI Urquiza (formerly "Club Ferrocarril Urquiza") is an Argentine sports club sited in Villa Lynch, General San Martín Partido of Greater Buenos Aires. Its men's football team currently plays at Primera B Metropolitana, the third ... in Argentina. She joined and started playing for the latter in early December 2020. On 20 December 2021, she was announced as a new player of Houston Dash in the United States for the 2022 season, loaned by UAI Urquiza. International career Gramaglia has captained Argentina at under-17 level. She made her senior debut on 27 November 2021. References External links * 2003 births Living people Footballers from C� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brianna Visalli
Brianna Elizabeth Visalli (born April 17, 1995) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Women's Super League club Brighton & Hove Albion. She has represented the United States at under-23 level. She also holds British citizenship. Early life Visalli was born in San Jose, California. She has five siblings. Her mother is a dual US/UK citizen. She played six years of her youth career for the CV Chilipeppers and one year for the De Anza Force. She was also a four-year varsity player for Valley Christian High School. College career Visalli was a four-year starter for the Pepperdine Waves, starting all but two games, setting a record for number of games played (83) and started (81) by an outfield player. She finished her Waves career second in game-winning goals (14) and seventh in total goals (25). In her senior year she was a semi-finalist for the Mac Hermann Trophy and was named the West Coast Conference Player of the Year. Club career Chicag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiernny Wiltshire
Tiernny Arlene Wiltshire (born 8 May 1998) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for the club Stade de Reims Féminines. Born in the United States, she represents Jamaica internationally. Club career Wiltshire previously played for Israeli Ligat Nashim club Maccabi Emek Hefer during the 2020–2021 season. She made 14 appearances and scored seven goals (four regular-season league goals, two national cup goals, and one league cup goal). She returned to the U.S. upon the end of the season and joined the Houston Dash as a trialist. In 2021, Wiltshire signed a short-term contract with Finnish Kansallinen Liiga team Kuopio Palloseura. On 25 August 2022, Wiltshire was signed with the Houston Dash as a forward for the remainder of the 2022 season. Wiltshire signed with French club Reims Reims ( , , ; also spelled Rheims in English) is the most populous city in the French department of Marne, and the 12th most populous city in France. The city lies northeast o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindsey Harris
Lindsey Burke Harris (born November 19, 1993) is an American professional women's soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for Al Qadsiah of the Saudi Women's Premier League. College career Harris played for the Tar Heels of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2012 to 2016, redshirting during her freshman year. In total, she made 65 appearances and recorded 2 assists for the Tar Heels. Club career Harris made her NWSL The National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) is a professional women's soccer league at the top of the United States league system. It is owned by the teams and, until 2020, was under a management contract with the United States Soccer Federatio ... debut on April 9, 2021. She made her Liga BPI debut on May 6, 2023. On July 20, 2023, Harris signed a short-term goalkeeper replacement contract with Portland Thorns FC after a knee injury to Thorns backup keeper Lauren Kozal. In October 2023, she joined Saudi club Al Qadsiah. Honors Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalie Jacobs
Natalie Ann Jacobs (born August 16, 1997) is an American professional soccer player who last played as a defender for the Houston Dash. Early life Jacobs grew up in Coto de Caza, California. She is the daughter of Jeff and Teresa Jacobs. Her father captained the U.S. Air Force Academy soccer team. Jacobs was a 2013 and 2014 NSCAA Youth All-American. She played club soccer for Slammers FC and graduated from Tesoro High School in 2015. Notre Dame Jacobs played for Notre Dame 2015-2017. In her freshman season, she played in 20 games and made 15 starts for the Irish. Jacobs scored five goals and notched five assists, including a game-winning assist to beat No. 1 ranked Virginia. She was named to the All-ACC Freshman Team and to TopDrawerSoccer.com's Freshman Best XI Second Team. She sat out the 2016 season to play in the U-20 World Cup with the United States. In 2017, as a redshirt sophomore, she led the Irish in goals, scoring 13 goals and 7 assists. Jacobs also played a team-h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ally Prisock
Ally Samantha Prisock (born January 18, 1997) is an American professional soccer player who currently plays for the GPSO 92 Issy on loan from Houston Dash of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). Early years Prisock was born to Aaron Prisock and Nickie Jennings and grew up in Fontana, California alongside sisters Ashley and Alyssa. She attended Rancho Cucamonga High School and after committing to USC her junior year she took summer classes in order to graduated early from high school, December of her senior year, in order to be able to attend spring training at USC. College career Prisock played four years for the University of Southern California Trojans, including their 2016 NCAA Tournament Championship year. During her time at USC she made 90 appearances, starting in every game of her college career. She set appearance records for most appearances by a Trojan player and became one of only three players in program history to start every game in their freshman year. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Curran
Emily Helena Curran (; born August 5, 1996) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Houston Dash of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). She previously played for Portland Thorns FC in the NWSL and the Penn State women's soccer team in college. Curran is a former United States youth international, and she was nominated for the 2016 U.S. Soccer Young Female Player of the Year award. College career As a freshman at Penn State, Curran started all 24 games of the 2014 season for the Nittany Lions. During a match against West Virginia, she scored a goal and provided an assist to lift the team to a 3–1 win. She finished the season having played 1,922 minutes, scored three goals and served four assists. Curran scored the game-winning goal against Wisconsin the same year. During her sophomore year, she helped Penn State advance and win the NCAA College Cup. She scored a goal and provided an assist during the team's 4–0 victory over Ohio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelcie Hedge
Kelcie Lee Anne Hedge (born September 19, 1997) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder. Club career OL Reign selected Hedge with the ninth overall pick in the 2020 NWSL College Draft, and she signed a three-year contract with the team on March 6, 2020. However, Hedge suffered an ACL injury on July 1 and subsequently missed the entire season. Hedge made her professional debut on July 18, 2021. She was traded to Houston Dash in December 2021. Her contract with the Dash was mutually terminated in June 2023. International career Hedge is a United States youth international and played at the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup The 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup was the 8th edition of the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, the biennial international women's youth football championship contested by the under-20 national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tourn .... References External links * Santa Clara profileWashington profile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makamae Gomera-Stevens
Kapuamakamaemalamaonalani Rachel-May Gomera-Stevens (born March 17, 1999), known as Kapuamakamae or simply Makamae Gomera-Stevens, is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder. Club career Gomera-Stevens signed with the Houston Dash in May 2021. Career statistics References External links Washington State profile* * 1999 births Living people Houston Dash players Houston Dash draft picks American women's soccer players Women's association football midfielders Washington State Cougars women's soccer players National Women's Soccer League players Soccer players from Hawaii Sportspeople from Honolulu County, Hawaii 21st-century American sportswomen {{US-women-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michaela Abam
Michaela-Batya Bisi Abam (born 12 June 1997) is an American-born Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for the Houston Dash in the National Women's Soccer League and the Cameroon national team. She previously played for Real Betis in the Spanish Primera División, Paris FC in the Division 1 Féminine, Sky Blue FC, and West Virginia University. College career West Virginia University, 2014–2017 Abam played in a school record 95 games for the Mountaineers, scoring 42 goals and 16 assists. In 2017, she scored the only goal in a 1–0 win over the University of North Carolina in the College Cup semi-final, leading WVU to their first-everCollege Cup Final. Club career Sky Blue FC, 2018 Abam was selected by Sky Blue FC as the 4th overall pick in the 2018 NWSL College Draft. In March she was named to the final roster for the 2018 season. After only appearing in 4 games for Sky Blue, she was released by the team on July 25. Paris FC, 2018–2019 On August 1, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
