Kelly Conheeney (born January 24, 1991) is an American

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player who plays as a

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. A native of

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, Conheeney played soccer at Ridgewood High School.

Career

In 2012, she played with the Ottawa Fury, scoring the final penalty kick in the league championship game to win the league title. Conheeney suffered a concussion while at Virginia Tech in 2012, and was sidelined for three years. In April 2016, she made the opening day roster for

Sky Blue FC Gotham Football Club is an American professional soccer team based in the New York metropolitan area that competes in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). Founded in 2006 as Jersey Sky Blue, the team was known as Sky Blue FC from 2008 un ...

. She scored the game-winning goal in Sky Blue FC's first game of the

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Virginia Tech bio
* 1991 births Living people American women's soccer players Sportspeople from Ridgewood, New Jersey Soccer players from Bergen County, New Jersey Ridgewood High School (New Jersey) alumni Virginia Tech Hokies women's soccer players Gotham FC players National Women's Soccer League players Women's association football midfielders Ottawa Fury (women) players USL W-League (1995–2015) players American expatriate sportspeople in Canada American expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Damallsvenskan players Hammarby Fotboll (women) players Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden Expatriate women's soccer players in Canada 21st-century American sportswomen {{US-women-footy-midfielder-stub