Lauren Lapomarda

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Lauren Lapomarda
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Lapomarda with Texas in 2024
Personal information
Full name Lauren Adrienne Lapomarda [1]
Date of birth (2002-05-10) May 10, 2002 (age 22) [2]
Height 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m)
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 Parma
Number 15
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2020–2024 Texas Longhorns 102 (4)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2025– Parma 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of January 26, 2024

Lauren Adrienne Lapomarda (born May 10, 2002) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a defender for Serie B Femminile club Parma. She played college soccer for the Texas Longhorns, for which she is the record appearance holder.

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Early life and college career

Lapomarda grew up in Prosper, Texas, the younger of two children born to Larry Lapomarda and Adriana Lazo. [3] She is of Hispanic and Italian descent and holds American and Italian citizenship. [4] [5] Her sister, Katie, played college soccer at San Diego. [3] Lapomarda began playing soccer at age three. [4] She played prep soccer at Prosper High School and club soccer for Solar SC. She won the USSDA under-16/17 national championship in 2019, with her club team led by her future Texas teammates Lexi Missimo and Trinity Byars. [3] [6]

Texas Longhorns

Lapomarda played five seasons for the Texas Longhorns, making a program-record 102 appearances (97 starts) and scoring 4 goals between 2020 and 2024. [3] [5] In her senior season, she contributed to a program-record stretch of more than six games without conceding a goal. She then helped Texas win the 2023 Big Ten tournament, being named to the all-tournament team after assisting Trinity Byars in a 1–0 semifinal win over Texas Tech and defeating BYU 3–1 in the final. [3] [7] In her fifth season, she was given freedom to contribute more offensively and doubled her career scoring output with two goals and five assists. [3] [8] She also helped lead Texas to victory in the 2024 SEC tournament (in their first season in the conference), scoring a golden goal in a 2–1 semifinal win against Arkansas to advance to the final, where they beat South Carolina 1–0. [9] [10]

Club career

Parma

Serie B club Parma announced Lapomarda's signing on January 18, 2025. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Lauren Lapomarda is Gialloblu". Parma Calcio 2022access-date=2025-01-27. January 18, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Lauren Lapomarda". Parma Calcio 2022 . Retrieved January 27, 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Lauren Lapomarda". Texas Longhorns . Retrieved January 27, 2025.
  4. 1 2 Wilson, Payton (September 19, 2022). "Hispanic Heritage Month: Lauren Lapomarda". Texas Longhorns . Retrieved January 27, 2025.
  5. 1 2 Malinguez, Alistair (January 20, 2025). "Texas soccer's Lauren Lapomarda signs overseas with Italian side Parma Calcio". The Daily Texan . Retrieved January 27, 2025.
  6. ↑ Crooke, Dan (July 22, 2019). "Solar SC and FC Dallas bring home USSDA awards". The Dallas Morning News . Retrieved May 15, 2024.
  7. ↑ "Light the Tower: Texas Soccer Wins Big 12 Conference Tournament Championship". University of Texas at Austin. November 7, 2023. Retrieved January 27, 2025.
  8. ↑ Deleon-Rios, Ylver (October 24, 2024). "Defending with passion: Lauren Lapomarda's impact after five years with Texas soccer". The Daily Texan . Retrieved January 27, 2025.
  9. ↑ Victoria, Hayden (November 8, 2024). "Lapomarda's Late Goal Sends Texas Soccer to SEC Championship in Double OT Thriller". USA Today . Retrieved January 27, 2025.
  10. ↑ "'Weathering the Storm': No. 21 Soccer wins first SEC Tournament Championship". Texas Longhorns. November 10, 2024. Retrieved January 27, 2025.
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