*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17:14, February 16, 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 17:14, February 16, 2025 (UTC)
Missimo played youth soccer for Solar SC of Dallas, Texas, beginning at age five.[2] She helped win the USYS national under-13 championship in 2016[3] and reached the ECNL under-15 national championship game the next year.[4] Between 2017 and 2019, Missimo scored 100 goals in 62 games in the Girls' Development Academy.[5][6] Playing up four age groups in 2017–18, she led the Solar under-18/19 team in goals and helped them reach the national championship game, receiving conference Best XI recognition.[7][8] She led Solar to win the national under-16/17 championship in 2019, receiving the Golden Boot as the playoffs' top scorer with 11 goals and being named the region's player of the year.[9] She was a two-time United Soccer Coaches All-American (2018–2019) at the youth level.[10]
College career
Missimo verbally committed to Texas when she was in seventh grade.[11] She was the number one recruit for the class of 2021,[12][13] but elected to graduate from Southlake Carroll High School in three years in 2020 and enrolled at the University of Texas in the fall of that year.[14] She had offers to go pro out of high school from Arsenal and Manchester City, the latter of which she had trained with.[2][15] She scored in her college debut on March 5, 2021, a 4–0 win over Texas State. She scored two goals in a 4–0 win over Baylor on March 31. She finished the abbreviated spring season with three goals and two assists in three games.[16]
Missimo started all 22 games during her freshman fall season in 2021, recording nine goals and 14 assists. Her assist total led the Big 12 Conference and tied the Texas program record for assists in a season. She was named the Big 12 Conference Freshman of the Year and recognized with All-Big 12 first-team, Big 12 all-tournament, and Big 12 All-Freshman honors.[17]
During her sophomore season in 2022, Missimo played in 17 games after suffering an injury early in the season that forced her to miss six games. Despite the absence, she led the Big 12 and set the Texas program record for assists in a season with 15, which ranked third in NCAA Division I that season. Texas won the Big 12 regular season championship and reached the conference tournament semifinals. Missimo contributed an assist in the Longhorns' first-round NCAA tournament win over Texas A&M, and the team's season ended a 1–0 loss to Duke in the next round.[17]
In her third full season with Texas in 2023, Missimo earned All-American honors and was named the TopDrawerSoccer National Player of the Year. She scored 26 goals and recorded 20 assists.[17] She became the first player in the history of the Texas program to record a 20–20 season. She led the Big 12 in goals, assists, and points for the season.[18]
Missimo finished her senior season with 12 goals and an SEC-joint-best 13 assists. She was named second-team United Soccer Coaches All-American, third-team TopDrawerSoccer Best XI, and first-team All-SEC.[17] She broke Byars's program goals record with her 53rd career goal.[19]
Club career
USL Super League club Dallas Trinity FC announced on January 29, 2025, that they had signed Missimo on a two-and-a-half year contract.[20] Missimo made her Dallas Trinity debut on February 15, 2025, and scored her first professional goal just four minutes into the match against Tampa Bay.[21]
International career
Missimo began training with the United States youth national team at the under-14 level in March 2016.[22] She made her international debut at the youth level on May 12, 2017, with the national under-16 team in a 4–0 win over Croatia.[23] She scored her first youth international goal for the under-15 team against Germany on November 1, 2017.[24] She and club teammate Trinity Byars led the under-16 team with five goals each at the Torneo delle Nazioni in 2018, which they won.[25]
Missimo was named to the under-20 team for the 2022 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship.[32] She scored three goals in seven appearances while leading the United States to the championship and was one of four Americans to make the tournament's Best XI.[33] However, prior to the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, she announced on social media that she had removed herself for consideration for the roster to focus on her sophomore college season.[34]
Missimo was called up by Emma Hayes into the 2025 U.S. Women's National Team Futures Camp, practicing alongside the senior national team, in January 2025.[36]
Personal life
Her parents are Derek and Susan Missimo. Her father is the all-time leading scorer (56) and all-time points leader (138) for North Carolina[37] and coached her youth club teams.[38] Her mother was a four-year letter winner for Texas Christian from 1991 to 1994. She has an older sister Gabriella, who was part of the Texas Longhorns women's soccer team in 2019.[39]
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