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Kathleen Ann Deines (born September 17, 1989) is an American
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defender. She most recently played for
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in the German
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and
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of the
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. Deines was a fourth round pick (23rd overall) of the Atlanta Beat of
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in the
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, the organization she had previously played for from 2007 to 2009. After the formation of the
National Women's Soccer League The National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) is a women's professional Association football, soccer league and the highest level of the United States soccer league system#Women's leagues, United States soccer league system (alongside the USL Supe ...
in late 2012, Deines played for the Seattle Reign during the league's first two seasons. She was traded to
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in late 2014 but announced her retirement from professional soccer on March 31, 2015, before the 2015 season began.


Early life

Deines was born in
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, on September 17, 1989, to Matt and Betsy Deines. As a freshman at
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, Deines helped lead the soccer team to its first state championship final since 1988 and first title ever. Deines led the team to four consecutive conference championships from 2004 to 2007 and four state title games, winning three of them. Issaquah's lone runner-up finish was in 2005 when Deines was forced to miss the championship game to join the
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Olympic Development Program in Boca Raton, Florida following the semifinal. Issaquah went on undefeated the next two years with Deines in the lineup. Deines capped off her high school career by scoring the game-winning goal in the 71st minute of the 2007 state final, a 1–0 victory over Seattle Prep. Deines finished with a total of 76 goals and was named to the all-state team four times and chosen as the state's Gatorade Player of the Year twice. During her senior year she was named to the
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and NSCAA/adidas Girls High School All-America teams. Deines has played soccer with the
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since joining the team in 2007 while still in high school.


University of Washington

Deines was a four-year starter for the
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, starting a school-record 86 games and scoring 21 goals. She was named to the
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All-Freshman First Team and was a four-time All-Pac-10 selection and a two-time
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Scholar All-American. As a freshman at the
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, Deines helped the Huskies return to the NCAA Tournament after a three-year absence. She played a leading role as team captain during her junior year. She converted two key penalty kicks, including the game winner, during an epic penalty shoot-out in a shocking upset of the No. 2 overall seed
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in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The Huskies would eventually go on to the Elite Eight where they were eliminated in an overtime loss at
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.


Playing career


Club


Drafted to the Atlanta Beat, 2012

Deines was selected as a fourth round pick (23rd overall) by the Atlanta Beat in the
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. She made 12 appearances for the club, scoring one goal. Following the conclusion of the W-League season, Deines and her Sounders teammate and fellow University of Washington alum,
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, played for
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in Iceland's top division. The team won the
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after a 1–0 win over Valur. Of her time in Iceland, Deines said, "Even though it was a spur of the moment decision to play overseas in Iceland, I believe my three month stint helped in my development as a player. Icelandic soccer was not nearly as technical or tactical as soccer in the United States but the extreme physicality of our practices and games challenged me to play with a whole new level of aggression. Playing professionally in Iceland also allowed me an opportunity to keep practicing and playing games on a daily basis which would not have been the case if I would have stayed in the United States."


Seattle Reign FC, 2013–14

In February 2013, Deines signed with the
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as a free agent for the inaugural season of the
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. Deines made 17 appearances for the club with 11 starts, tallying a total of 979 minutes.


Potsdam, 2014–15

In September 2014, Deines signed a one-year contract with Germany's
Turbine Potsdam 1. Frauenfußballclub Turbine Potsdam 71 e. V., commonly known as 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam (or Turbine Potsdam outside of Germany), is a German women's football club located in Potsdam, Brandenburg. They are one of the most successful women's footb ...
in the
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.


International

Deines was a member of the
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and traveled to Sweden in June 2011.


Personal life

Deines' younger brother Jay is an offensive lineman on the football team at
Eastern Washington University Eastern Washington University (EWU) is a public university in Cheney, Washington, United States. It shares its satellite campus in Spokane, Washington with Washington State University. Founded in 1882, the university is academically divided in ...
.


See also

* List of University of Washington people * List of people from Portland, Oregon


References


External links


Washington player profile


* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Deines, Kate Living people 1989 births Parade High School All-Americans (girls' soccer) Washington Huskies women's soccer players American women's soccer players 21st-century American sportswomen Seattle Sounders Women players Atlanta Beat (WPS) players USL W-League (1995–2015) players Soccer players from Portland, Oregon National Women's Soccer League players Seattle Reign FC players Women's association football defenders Women's association football midfielders Stjarnan women's football players Kate Deines Expatriate women's footballers in Iceland American expatriate sportspeople in Iceland American expatriate women's soccer players in Germany American expatriate women's soccer players United States women's youth international soccer players