Lara Schenk (born 20 January 2000) is a German

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who plays for

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in the

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Early life

Schenk began playing soccer at age five, joining a boys team. rom 2014 to 2016, she played youth football with

VfL Wolfsburg Verein für Leibesübungen Wolfsburg e. V., commonly known as VfL Wolfsburg (), is a German professional sports club based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony. The club grew out of a multi-sports club for Volkswagen workers in the city of Wolfsburg. I ...

, before joining the JFV Calenberger Land U17 boys team in 2016-17 and the TSV Pattensen U17 boys team in 2017-18.

College career

In 2018, Schenk began attending

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, where she played for the women's soccer team on a scholarship. Schenk made her collegiate debut on 19 September 2018, picking up an assist, in a 1-0 victory over the

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. On September 18, 2019, she scored her first collegiate goal in a 4-1 victory over the UMass Lowell River Hawks. In 2021, she was named to the All-

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Second Team and an Academic All-District selection. In 2022, she was again named an Academic All-District selection.

Club career

In 2020, with due to the cancellation of the women's college season due to the

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, Schenk began training with

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club

to prepare for the 2020 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, which was ultimately cancelled. She could only train with the first team, due to

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rules preventing student-athletes from playing professionally, but was able to play with the second team in the 2. Frauen-Bundesliga, as it was not considered professional. In 2022, she played with Manhattan SC in the

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. In January 2023, Schenk signed with Belgian Women's Super League side Club YLA (the women's team of

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. In June 2023, she signed with Belgian Women's Super League club

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on a two-year contract. In July 2024, she signed with Spanish club

Sporting de Huelva Sporting Club de Huelva is a Spanish women's association football, football club from Huelva, Andalusia. It was founded in Huelva in 2004 as a restructuring of an homonymous junior (men's) football club, which had been founded in 1979 and dissol ...

in the first tier

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. In April 2025, she joined Canadian club

in the

International career

Schenk played with the German youth teams from U14 to U19 level. In 2018, she was named to the Germany U19 for the

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. In 2019 and 2020, she was called to various camps with the Germany U20.

References

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Germany stats

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