Jordyn Bugg
Jordyn Nishai Bugg (born August 11, 2006) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a center back for Seattle Reign FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the United States national team. She signed with the Reign at the age of 17 in 2024. She won bronze medals as a youth international at the 2023 Pan American Games and the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. Early life Bugg was raised in El Cajon, California, the oldest of five siblings. Her parents attended Eastern Kentucky University, where her father played college football and her mother played basketball. She is a cousin of NFL cornerback Terrion Arnold. Bugg attended Christian Junior/Senior High School and played club soccer for San Diego Surf SC, winning the ECNL national championship in 2024. She trained with NWSL club San Diego Wave during her junior and senior years of high school, where she learned from center backs Naomi Girma and Abby Dahlkemper and head coach Casey Stoney. Club career Se ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Seattle Reign FC
Seattle Reign FC is an American professional soccer team based in Seattle, Washington, that competes in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). Founded in 2012, it is one of eight inaugural members of the NWSL. Since June 2024, the Reign are owned by the private equity firm the Carlyle Group and Major League Soccer club Seattle Sounders FC. The team has reached the NWSL Championship three times (2014, 2015, 2023), losing each time. In 2020, OL Groupe, the parent company of French clubs Olympique Lyonnais and Olympique Lyonnais Féminin, became the team's majority owner and the team played as OL Reign from 2020 to 2023. Laura Harvey is the team's head coach; she led the team to two consecutive NWSL Shield wins in 2014 and 2015 and a third in 2022. Seattle Reign FC has played its home matches at Lumen Field since 2022. The team previously played at the Starfire Sports Complex in Tukwila (2013), at Memorial Stadium (2014–18), and at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma (2019–21) ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Football At The 2023 Pan American Games – Women's Tournament
The Women's football tournament at the 2023 Pan American Games was held in Valparaíso and Viña del Mar from 22 October to 3 November 2023. Qualification A total of eight women's teams qualified to compete at the games, four CONMEBOL teams and four CONCACAF teams. For CONMEBOL, the three teams ranked third to fifth at the 2022 Copa América Femenina qualified, while Chile automatically qualified as hosts; however, Venezuela declined to participate less than a month until the tournament due to lack of release of players by clubs, so Bolivia replaced the country. For CONCACAF, the best team from each of the three zones (North American, Central American and Caribbean) at the 2022 CONCACAF Women's Championship qualified; however, Canada declined to participate due to scheduling issues, so Mexico qualified for the North American berth. United States competed with a under-19 team. Qualified teams : Mexico replaced Canada after the latter withdrew citing scheduling issues. : Host n ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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NWSL Under-18 Entry Mechanism
The Under-18 Entry Mechanism sets the rules for how soccer players below the age of 18 may sign professional contracts in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), the top division of women's soccer in the United States. Background The NWSL had a minimum age requirement of 18 until 2021, when 15-year-old Olivia Moultrie filed an antitrust lawsuit against the league. She reached a settlement that allowed her to sign with Portland Thorns FC after going through a league discovery process that involved her rights being acquired by OL Reign and traded to the Thorns. The following year, the NWSL allowed 17-year-old Jaedyn Shaw to sign with San Diego Wave FC through discovery, with five other teams submitting bids for her rights including the Washington Spirit which she had trained with for months. Other sports leagues in the United States continue to have minimum requirements, such as 18 in the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball. Major League Soccer allows younger player ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Casey Stoney
Casey Jean Stoney (born 13 May 1982) is an English professional Manager (association football), football manager and former Football player, player who currently serves as the head coach of the Canada women's national soccer team. A versatile defender, she was cap (sport), capped more than 100 times for the England women's national football team since making her debut in 2000. After being a non-playing squad member at UEFA Women's Euro 2005, she was an integral part of the England teams which reached the UEFA Women's Euro 2009 final and the quarter finals of the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, 2007 and 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, 2011. In 2012, Stoney succeeded Faye White as the England captain (association football), captain and also became captain of the newly formed Great Britain women's Olympic football team, Great Britain squad for the 2012 Summer Olympics. She ended her playing career at Liverpool F.C. Women, Liverpool Ladies. She was the first hea ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Abby Dahlkemper
Abigail Lynn Dahlkemper (born May 13, 1993) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a center back for Bay FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the United States national team. Dahlkemper played collegiately for the UCLA Bruins, where she won the NCAA championship in 2013 and received the Honda Sports Award in 2014. She was the third overall pick by the Western New York Flash in the 2015 NWSL College Draft and won her first NWSL Championship with the Flash in 2016. Following the Flash's relocation, Dahlkemper was voted NWSL Defender of the Year in 2017 and won successive league doubles with the North Carolina Courage in 2018 and 2019. Early life Dahlkemper was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and raised in Menlo Park, California. She has two brothers, Andrew (the older) and Joseph (the younger) and is the daughter of Andrew and Susan Dahlkemper. She attended Sacred Heart Preparatory and played on the soccer team. In 2010, she was named Gatorade Cali ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Naomi Girma
Naomi Haile Girma (born June 14, 2000) is an American professional association football, soccer player who plays as a Defender (association football)#Centre-back, center back for Women's Super League club Chelsea W.F.C., Chelsea and the United States women's national soccer team, United States national team. Girma played college soccer for the Stanford Cardinal women's soccer, Stanford Cardinal, which she captained to the 2019 NCAA Division I women's soccer tournament, 2019 national championship. San Diego Wave FC selected her first overall in the 2022 NWSL Draft. She won NWSL Rookie of the Year and was named NWSL Defender of the Year in both of her first two seasons, helping lead San Diego to the NWSL Shield in 2023 San Diego Wave FC season, 2023. In 2025, she signed with Chelsea for a reported $1.1 million transfer fee, a List of most expensive women's association football transfers, women's soccer world record. Girma played for the United States at the United States wom ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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San Diego Wave
San Diego Wave Fútbol Club is an American professional soccer team based in San Diego, California, that competes in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). The team plays its home games at Snapdragon Stadium. Founded on June 8, 2021, the Wave began play in the 2022 season as an expansion team. The Wave won the NWSL Shield with the league's best record in the 2023 season, the club's first trophy. The club won the NWSL Challenge Cup in its 2024 edition. History The team is San Diego's first women's professional soccer team since 2003, when the Women's United Soccer Association folded and forced the San Diego Spirit to disband. In January 2021, Lisa Baird, the commissioner of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), announced that an expansion team in Sacramento, led by Ron Burkle and in conjunction with Sacramento Republic FC's expansion bid into Major League Soccer, would join the NWSL in 2022. However, Burkle never confirmed the news publicly before exiting the Sacramen ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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ECNL
The Elite Clubs National League (ECNL) is a national youth soccer developmental league in the United States. It was founded in 2009 as a girls' league and added a boys' league in 2017. Competition format The ECNL is divided by age groups from U-13 through U-19, and into nine (girls') or ten (boys') regional conferences of nine to 16 clubs. Clubs play regular season matches within their conferences, and top teams and wildcards can qualify for a post-season national round-robin champions' league competition. Winners of the group stage compete in a finals tournament for the title of national champion. ECNL clubs also compete in tournaments that invite clubs from other leagues, such as the Surf Cup operated by Surf Cup Sports, itself a licensee of several ECNL clubs. Operation The ECNL is a nonprofit organization composed of member clubs, with an elected board of directors that approves budgets, competition rules, and the admission of new members. Broadcasting ECNL matches have ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Christian Junior/Senior High School
Christian High School is a private Christian TK-12 school in El Cajon, California. It is part of the Christian Unified Schools of San Diego. It offers a college preparatory education, with the goal to "prepare students who are academically and spiritually prepared to be a light in their community and who understand the nature of God, His Word, and the importance of impacting the world for Christ." Christian High was founded by Dr. Timothy and Beverly LaHaye in 1965. In the first year, 1965–66, the school included grades 9-11. The school's principal was Guy East, a missionary with Wycliffe bible translators who was from Scott Memorial Baptist Church, the sponsoring church. He was in the country while on furlough. The principal from 1966-1972 was Pete Steveson. During that period, grades 7-8 and 12 were added. The first graduating class in 1967 included sixteen seniors. In those early years, the school grew from 32 students to 330 students. The school began to participate ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Florida State Seminoles
The Florida State Seminoles are the athletic teams representing Florida State University (FSU) located in Tallahassee, Florida. They compete as a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) NCAA Division I, Division I, primarily competing in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) for all sports since the 1991–92 season; within the ACC Atlantic Division, Atlantic Division in any sports split into a divisional format since the 2005–06 season. The Seminoles' athletic department currently fields 18 varsity teams, including programs for both men and women. They have collectively won 20 team national championships and over 100 team conference championships, as well as numerous individual national and conference titles. The athletic department is led by athletic director Michael Alford, who reports to FSU President Richard D. McCullough and the Florida State University Board of Trustees, Board of Trustees. Overview Florida State Athletics were founded in 1902 whe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Terrion Arnold
Terrion Bernard Arnold (born March 22, 2003) is an American professional football cornerback for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, receiving All-American honors in 2023. Arnold was selected by the Lions in the first round of the 2024 NFL draft. Early life Arnold was born on March 22, 2003, in Tallahassee, Florida. He attended John Paul II Catholic High School, where he played basketball and football. In football, Arnold caught 26 passes for 404 yards and three touchdowns as a wide receiver and 49 tackles, five pass deflections, and four interceptions as a safety. A four-star prospect, he would commit to play college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide. College career In 2021, Arnold redshirted and did not play in any games. In week six of the 2022 season, Arnold recorded his first career interception off a pass by Haynes King before breaking up a pass in the end zone on the final play of the game ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Eastern Kentucky Colonels Women's Basketball
The Eastern Kentucky Colonels women's basketball team is a women's college basketball team at Eastern Kentucky University, located in Richmond, Kentucky. After having played women's basketball in the Ohio Valley Conference since it began sponsoring women's sports in 1977, EKU joined the Atlantic Sun Conference in July 2021. The 2024–25 season will mark EKU's fourth season as a member institution in the ASUN Conference. Home games are played at Baptist Health Arena, seating 6,500 fans for basketball contests. History Eastern Kentucky began play in 1971. They won the Kentucky Women's Intercollegiate Conference (KWIC) Tournament in 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, and 1976. They joined the Ohio Valley Conference when that conference started sponsoring women's sports in 1977, they won five regular season championships (1995, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2005) and two tournament championships (1997, 2005). The Colonels have made the postseason five times, with two being in the NCAA Tournament (1997, 20 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |