Colton grew up in Carlsbad, California, the daughter of Jeffery and Debra Colton, and has two sisters. Her twin sister, Abbie, played with her at Wake Forest for one season.[3][4] The twins began playing soccer when they were five years old.[3] Colton played club soccer for City SC in San Diego for twelve years before moving to LA Galaxy San Diego.[5][6] She attended La Costa Canyon High School, where she played basketball.[5] Coming out of high school, she was ranked by IMG Academy as the fifth-best player of the 2021 class.[6]
College career
Colton played three seasons for the North Carolina Tar Heels and started all 67 games for the team, scoring 10 goals and providing 8 assists.[5] In her freshman season in 2021, she led the Tar Heels in scoring with 7 goals in 18 games and named to the TopDrawerSoccer Freshman Best XI second team.[5][7] In her sophomore season in 2022, she helped North Carolina to the finals of both the ACC tournament and the NCAA tournament. In the national title game, she assisted Avery Patterson's second goal in a loss to UCLA.[5] Her junior season in 2023 ended in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament.[5]
Colton transferred to the Wake Forest Demon Deacons in 2024, joining her sister.[8] She started all 24 games and scored 7 goals with 7 assists—both marks tied with or behind only Caiya Hanks and Emily Murphy.[9] Her assist against No. 2–ranked Virginia and her lone goal against No. 1 Stanford made Wake Forest the first team to defeat the top two ranked teams consecutively. She also helped defeat defending national champions Florida State 4–1, ending their 32–game unbeaten streak.[8][10] She ranked second in the nation in TopDrawerSoccer's midseason player rankings.[11] In the NCAA tournament, she helped lead Wake Forest to its first national title game in program history, beating Stanford 1–0 in the semifinals before losing 1–0 to her former team North Carolina in the final.[8][12] She was named second-team All-ACC, third-team United Soccer Coaches All-American, and second-team TopDrawerSoccer All-American at the end of the season.[8][13]
Club career
USL Super League club DC Power FC announced on January 31, 2025, that they had signed Colton to a two-year contract.[14] She recorded her first professional assist on April 26, setting up Gianna Gourley in a 1–0 win against Brooklyn FC.[15]
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