Kathryn Michele Markgraf is the General Manager of the United States women's national soccer team and a retired American professional soccer defender. She previously played for the Chicago Red Stars in the WPS, the Boston Breakers in the WUSA, and the United States women's national soccer team. She was a three-time Olympic medalist and played in three FIFA Women's World Cup tournaments. She started in 97% of her 201 United States Women's National Team appearances in her 12-year career. She ended her career with a high school championship, state club championship, NCAA Division I championship, Olympic gold medals, and a FIFA World Cup Championship.
Robert Brown Clark is a Scottish football player and coach. Clark, who played as a goalkeeper, spent most of his playing career with Aberdeen. He also played for Queen's Park, Washington Whips, San Antonio Thunder and Clyde. Clark played 17 times for Scotland and represented the Scottish League. He later became a coach, mainly working in New Zealand and the United States.
Angela Khalia Hucles Mangano is an American sports executive and former professional soccer player. Hucles Mangano is currently the vice president of player development and operations at Angel City FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), of which she is also a minority owner. As a player, Hucles Mangano played as a midfielder and was a member of the United States women's national soccer team.
Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) was the top-level professional women's soccer league in the United States. It began play on March 29, 2009. The league was composed of seven teams for its first two seasons and fielded six teams for the 2011 season, with continued plans for future expansion. The WPS was the highest level in the United States soccer pyramid for the women's game.
Karina Chenelle LeBlanc is an American-born Canadian former professional soccer goalkeeper and current general manager of the Portland Thorns FC. She played for the Canadian national team and multiple professional women's teams in the United States over her fourteen-year career.
The Boston Breakers were an American professional women's soccer club based in the Boston neighborhood of Allston. The team competed in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). They replaced the original Breakers, who competed in the defunct Women's United Soccer Association, as the Boston area's professional women's soccer team.
Women's soccer in the United States has developed quite differently from men's soccer. Until the 1970s, organized women's soccer matches in the U.S. existed only on a limited basis. The U.S. is now regarded as one of the top countries in the world for women's soccer, and FIFA ranked its national team #1 in the world after its back-to-back Women's World Cup victory in 2015 and 2019.
Tracy Jean Ducar is an American soccer goalkeeper who previously played for the United States women's national soccer team and the Boston Breakers in the Women's United Soccer Association.
The National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) federation players were players whose salaries for playing in the NWSL were paid for by their respective national federations from 2013 to 2021. American federation players were contracted to the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) and not to their respective NWSL clubs, whereas Canadian federation players were contracted directly to their respective NWSL clubs. Federation players were sometimes known as allocated players, allocation players, or subsidized players, which occasionally created confusion with players paid using the NWSL's "allocation money", a mechanism introduced before the 2020 NWSL season.
Julie O'Toole King is an American soccer player who plays as a defender. She played college soccer at Auburn University and professionally for the Boston Breakers, North Carolina Courage and Orlando Pride.
Anna Ulrika Olsson is a Swedish former football goalkeeper. She played for Bälinge IF and Umeå IK in the Swedish Damallsvenskan and spent time with San Diego Spirit and Carolina Courage while contracted to Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) in 2001. Nicknamed "Ucka", Karlsson represented Sweden at senior international level, winning 45 caps between 1995 and 2001.
Elizabeth Stout is an American retired professional soccer player who played as a goalkeeper. She is currently a coach with the Southern Illinois Salukis.
Morgan Elizabeth Andrews is an American soccer player who last played as a midfielder for OL Reign in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). She previously played for Perth Glory and Boston Breakers.
Brittany Margaret Ratcliffe is an American soccer player who plays as a forward for North Carolina Courage of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).
Abigail Mackenzie Smith is an American soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for NJ/NY Gotham FC in the NWSL. She has represented the United States on the under-17, under-20, under-23 and senior national teams.
The 2017 Boston Breakers season was the club's twelfth season overall, eighth consecutive season, and fifth season as a member of the National Women's Soccer League. They finished 9th in the 10 team league with a record of 4 wins, 13 losses, and 7 draws.
Samantha Jo Prudhomme is an American soccer coach and former professional player who is an assistant coach for the Loyola Greyhounds women's soccer team.
Miren Maite Zabala Rementeria is a Basque American soccer coach and former professional goalkeeper. She played for Atlanta Beat, Philadelphia Charge and Carolina Courage of Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA).
Tatiana Saunders is an English footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Durham playing in the FA Women's Championship after leaving Lewes. Saunders played with the New York Athletic Club, where she was part of the squad that won the 2010 USASA Women's Cup, and was named the 2010 Gatorade State Player of the Year for New York. She played internationally for the England under-17s and under-19s with a perfect 6–0–0 record, and was also on the Dartmouth women's soccer team for four years. After a two-year stint working on Wall Street, Saunders resumed her football career in 2018 and has since played in Iceland and France.
The 2010 Sky Blue FC season was the team's second season as a professional women's soccer team, competing in Women's Professional Soccer (WPS), then the top-division tier of women's soccer in the United States.
