McKinley Crone

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McKinley Crone
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Crone with the Orlando Pride in 2024
Personal information
Date of birth (1998-10-20) October 20, 1998 (age 26) [1]
Place of birth Maitland, Florida, United States
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) [2]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Orlando Pride
Number 40
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2017–2019 Oklahoma Sooners 41 (0)
2020–2022 Alabama Crimson Tide 66 (0)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2023– Orlando Pride 0 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

McKinley Crone (born October 20, 1998) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for the Orlando Pride of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). Born and raised in the Orlando area, she played collegiately for the Oklahoma Sooners and the Alabama Crimson Tide.

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Early life

Crone was born in the Orlando suburb of Maitland, Florida, to Mark and Lora Crone, and has a younger sister. [1] She played multiple sports growing up before dedicating herself to soccer at age nine, though she also swam varsity in high school. [1] [3] She lettered in four years of soccer at Edgewater High School in Orlando, playing at forward as a freshman before staying in goal, and received all-metro honors three times. She played club soccer for Florida Kraze Krush. [1]

College career

Crone played two full seasons as the starting keeper for the Oklahoma Sooners. She piled up saves with 111 as a freshman in the 2017 season and 97 as a sophomore in 2018, though the team had losing records both years. [3] [4] She then suffered an injury and sought to play elsewhere, transferring to the Alabama Crimson Tide in 2020. [3] [5] In the 2021 season, she shut out Clemson in the first round of the NCAA championship, helping Alabama win its first ever match at the national tournament, and made a season-high seven saves in the loss to BYU in the next round. [1] [6]

In the 2022 regular season, Crone allowed only 11 goals in 19 games as Alabama went undefeated against Southeastern Conference (SEC) opponents and won the conference regular-season title for the first time in program history. [3] [5] They were beaten by South Carolina in the SEC tournament final but made it to the semifinals of the NCAA tournament for the first time, where Crone posted a season-high eight saves but allowed three, losing to eventual champions UCLA. [1] [7] She made 229 saves in three years at Alabama and tied the program record with 21 career clean sheets. She holds the all-time national record for career minutes played by a goalkeeper (9,519). [1]

Club career

Orlando Pride, 2023–

Crone joined the Orlando Pride as a non-roster trialist in the 2023 preseason. On September 13, she was signed to the roster for the rest of the season after having had two spells on national team replacement contracts. [8] She was again invited to train in the 2024 preseason and was signed to a one-year contract on March 11, becoming the likely third option behind Anna Moorhouse and Sofia Manner. [9] She made her professional debut on July 20, 2024, as the starting keeper against the North Carolina Courage in the first group stage game of the 2024 NWSL x Liga MX Femenil Summer Cup. She made five saves in the 1–1 draw in regulation before the game went to penalties, where Crone saved two kicks but lost the shootout 5–4. [10]

Honors

Orlando Pride

Individual

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "McKinley Crone – Soccer". Alabama Crimson Tide . Retrieved July 20, 2024.
  2. ↑ "McKinley Crone". Orlando Pride . Retrieved July 20, 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Smith, Mason (November 3, 2022). "Joy in Net: McKinley Crone More Than Alabama Soccer's Last Line of Defense". Sports Illustrated . Retrieved July 20, 2024.
  4. ↑ "McKinley Crone – 2018–19 – Soccer". Oklahoma Sooners . Retrieved July 20, 2024.
  5. 1 2 Miller, Will (November 8, 2022). "McKinley Crone came back to Alabama, and now she's a Crimson Tide legend". The Crimson White . Retrieved July 20, 2024.
  6. ↑ Donaldson, Maxwell (November 12, 2021). "Alabama women's soccer gets first NCAA Tournament win, tops Clemson 1-0". The Tuscaloosa News . Retrieved July 20, 2024.
  7. ↑ Kassim, Ehsan (December 2, 2022). "Alabama soccer overwhelmed by UCLA in first NCAA College Cup semifinal appearance". The Tuscaloosa News . Retrieved July 20, 2024.
  8. ↑ "Orlando Pride signs Goalkeeper McKinley Crone through the 2023 season". Orlando Pride. September 13, 2023. Retrieved July 20, 2024.
  9. ↑ Rollins, Sean (March 11, 2024). "Orlando Pride Sign Goalkeeper McKinley Crone to One-Year Deal". The Mane Land. Retrieved July 20, 2024.
  10. ↑ "Match Report: Orlando Pride earn 1–1 draw at North Carolina Courage in opening match of NWSL x LIGA MX Femenil Summer Cup". Orlando Pride. July 20, 2024. Retrieved July 21, 2024.
  11. ↑ NWSL (October 7, 2024). "Orlando Pride Claims 2024 NWSL Shield". NWSL. Retrieved October 9, 2024.
  12. ↑ "Orlando Pride win 2024 NWSL Championship, bringing first professional, major league trophy to the City of Orlando". NWSL. November 25, 2024. Retrieved November 29, 2024.
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