NWSL Rookie of the Year

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2024 winner Croix Bethune

The NWSL Rookie of the Year award is presented annually to the best rookie in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).

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Erika Tymrak (2013), an alumna of the Florida Gators, won the first Rookie of the Year award in the NWSL's inaugural season. The most recent winner is Croix Bethune (2024).

As of 2024, the NWSL's individual end-of-year awards are voted upon in two rounds: in the first round, players (50%), owners/general managers/coaches (25%), and media (25%) vote to determine the nominees; in the second round, players (40%), owners/general managers/coaches (25%), media (25%), and fans (10%) vote among the nominees to determine the winner. [1]

Winners

SeasonPlayerPos.NationalityClubSchoolDraftedOther finalistsRef.
2013 Erika Tymrak MF Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States FC Kansas City Florida Gators 11th Adrianna Franch, Sydney Leroux [2]
2014 Julie Johnston D/MF Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Chicago Red Stars Santa Clara Broncos 3rd Crystal Dunn, Kealia Ohai [3]
2015 Danielle Colaprico MF Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Chicago Red Stars Virginia Cavaliers 9th Sofia Huerta, Sam Mewis [4]
2016 Rocky Rodríguez MF Flag of Costa Rica.svg  Costa Rica Sky Blue FC [a] Penn State Nittany Lions 2nd Rachel Daly, Emily Sonnett [5]
2017 Ashley Hatch F Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States North Carolina Courage BYU Cougars 2nd Meggie Dougherty Howard, Mallory Pugh [6]
2018 Imani Dorsey F/MF Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Sky Blue FC [a] Duke Blue Devils 5th Savannah McCaskill, Andi Sullivan [7]
2019 Bethany Balcer F Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Reign FC Spring Arbor Cougars Undrafted Jordan DiBiasi, Sam Staab [8]
2021 Trinity Rodman F Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Washington Spirit Washington State Cougars 2nd Emily Fox, Victoria Pickett [9]
2022 Naomi Girma D Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States San Diego Wave FC Stanford Cardinal 1st Sam Coffey, Diana Ordóñez [10]
2023 Jenna Nighswonger D Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States NJ/NY Gotham FC Florida State Seminoles 4th Messiah Bright, Alyssa Thompson [11]
2024 Croix Bethune MF Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Washington Spirit Georgia Bulldogs 3rd Claire Hutton, Ally Sentnor [12]

Wins by team

ClubWins
NJ/NY Gotham FC [a] 3
Chicago Red Stars 2
Washington Spirit 2
FC Kansas City 1
North Carolina Courage 1
San Diego Wave FC 1

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 NJ/NY Gotham FC was previously known as Sky Blue FC.

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