Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Alana Simone Cook [1] | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | April 11, 1997 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Worcester, Massachusetts, United States | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Defender | ||||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Kansas City Current | ||||||||||||||||
Number | 15 | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
The Pennington School | |||||||||||||||||
Match Fit Academy Colchesters | |||||||||||||||||
College career | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
2015–2018 | Stanford Cardinal | 93 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
2019–2021 | Paris Saint-Germain | 21 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2020 | → OL Reign (loan) | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2021–2024 | Seattle Reign | 65 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2024– | Kansas City Current | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
2013 | United States U17 | ||||||||||||||||
2014–2016 | United States U20 | ||||||||||||||||
2017–2019 | United States U23 | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2019– | United States | 29 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of June 28, 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of October 29, 2023 |
Alana Simone Cook (born April 11, 1997) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a defender for NWSL club Kansas City Current and the United States national team. [2]
Cook was born in Worcester, Massachusetts to parents Florence and Bryan Cook [3] and raised with sister Brianna in Worcester and Far Hills, New Jersey. [4] [5] [6] She attended The Pennington School, a boarding school in Pennington, New Jersey, and helped guide the varsity soccer team to regional and state titles. [7] [8] Cook was named 2013 New Jersey Prep Player of the Year and 2015 NSCAA High School Scholar Player of the Year. [7]
Twice named NSCAA Youth All-American, [9] Cook played in the NSCAA High School All-America Game and earned Best XI honors. [7] She played club soccer for Match Fit Academy Colchesters and won the 2013 U.S. Youth Soccer National League title with the team. [10]
Cook began representing the United States on its youth national teams as a teenager. [7]
Cook attended the Stanford University from 2015 to 2018 where she earned a degree in symbolic systems and was a four-year starter for the Stanford Cardinal women's soccer team. She captained the team in her final two seasons. She was named Pac-12 Conference Defender of the Year and a MAC Hermann Trophy semifinalist in 2018. [7]
In January 2019, Cook elected to forgo the 2019 NWSL College Draft despite her first round draft grade [11] and instead chose to pursue opportunities in Europe, signing a three-year deal with French Division 1 Féminine team Paris Saint-Germain. [12]
On June 16, 2020, Cook joined OL Reign on a short-term loan for the 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup. [13]
On June 7, 2021, OL Reign signed Cook to a three-year contract with an option for an extra year on a permanent transfer from PSG. [14]
During the 2021 season, Cook was a starting defender in all 20 matches of the regular season. [2] The Reign finished in second place during the regular season with a 13–8–3 record. [15] After advancing to the NWSL Playoffs, they were eliminated by eventual champions Washington Spirit. [16] Cook was named to the league's Best XI. [17]
In 2022, Cook helped OL Reign finish in first place during the regular season winning the NWSL Shield. [2] [18] She was nominated for NWSL Defender of the Year for the 2021 and 2022 seasons. [19] [20]
On July 22, 2024, Seattle Reign announced that they had traded Cook to Kansas City Current for allocation money and intra-league transfer funds. [21]
Cook has competed for the United States under-17, under-20, under-23, and senior national teams. She captained the under-17 team and made the jump to the under-20 team in 2014 followed by the under-23 team in 2017. [22] She captained the under-23 squad in 2019. [23] [24] She is eligible to represent England because of her British father and earned her first senior international call-up in September 2019 as a training player for England's friendlies against Portugal and Brazil. [25]
Cook received her first call-up to the United States national team on October 31, 2019. [26] In June 2023, she was named to the U.S. squad for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. [27]
Club | Season | League | Cup [lower-alpha 1] | Continental | Other [lower-alpha 2] | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Paris Saint-Germain | 2018–19 | D1F | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 4 | 0 | |
2019–20 | D1F | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | |
2020–21 | D1F | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1 | |
Total | 21 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 1 | ||
OL Reign (loan) | 2020 | NWSL | — | 3 | 0 | — | — | 3 | 0 | |||
OL Reign | 2021 | NWSL | 19 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | 20 | 0 | ||
2022 | NWSL | 19 | 0 | 7 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | 26 | 1 | ||
Total | 38 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 49 | 1 | ||
Career total | 59 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 81 | 2 |
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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United States | 2019 | 1 | 0 |
2020 | 0 | 0 | |
2021 | 3 | 0 | |
2022 | 15 | 0 | |
2023 | 10 | 1 | |
Total | 29 | 1 |
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | Ref. |
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1 | April 11, 2023 | St. Louis, Missouri | Republic of Ireland | 1–0 | 1–0 | Friendly |
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