Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | January 20, 2000 | ||
Place of birth | Medford, Massachusetts, U.S. | ||
Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) [1] | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | North Carolina Courage | ||
Number | 20 | ||
College career | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2018–2022 | Notre Dame | 95 | (26) |
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2023– | North Carolina Courage | 16 | (0) |
International career | |||
2015–2016 | United States U16 | 6 | (2) |
2017 | United States U18 | 3 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22:19, 10 February 2024 (UTC) |
Olivia Wingate (born January 20, 2000) [2] is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for the North Carolina Courage of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). A native of Wilmington, Massachusetts, she played college soccer for Notre Dame. She was selected by the Courage sixth overall in the 2023 NWSL Draft.
Wingate was born in Medford, Massachusetts, the second of four children of Carol and Steven Wingate. [3] [4] She grew up in nearby Wilmington. [4] She started playing soccer at age four but also played other sports such as softball, basketball, and ice hockey. [5] [6] She played one season of ice hockey for her high school team as a forward, leading the team with about 20 goals. [3] [6]
During her first year of high school in 2014–15, Wingate played at club level for the Massachusetts-based FC Stars of the Elite Clubs National League (ECNL) and won the Northeast regional conference. [7] After recovering from a broken leg, she left FC Stars as a sophomore and joined her high school soccer team at Wilmington High School. [8] [3] She scored 12 goals in about ten games as a sophomore; as a junior, she scored 17 goals and had five assists in 13 games. [3] [6] The Wilmington Wildcats went undefeated in the regular season both years, going a combined 33–0–3 for two league titles, but made early exits from the 2015 and 2016 state tournaments. [3] [9] Wingate, known for her quickness from a young age, [7] [6] was twice named the Middlesex League Player of the Year. [10]
A collision with an opposing goalkeeper, while playing for a club team in May 2017, led to a knee injury that required surgery and sidelined Wingate for more than a year (including all of her senior high school season), up until two weeks before her first college game. [11] [12] [13]
Wingate verbally committed to the University of Notre Dame as a high school sophomore in September 2015 and signed a letter of intent in February 2018. [8] [13] In her first three seasons, she played in all of Notre Dame's 40 games and scored five goals. [9] She "upped her game" in her fourth year in 2021, recording seven goals and five assists in 22 starts. [9] She led the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) with a shot accuracy of 0.640 and was named to the All-ACC third team. [5] [14] She scored twice in the 2021 NCAA tournament, an equalizer in the second round versus Purdue and another in their third-round loss to Arkansas. [1] [9]
Wingate was "much more of a complete player" by her fifth season, improving her finishing and movement. [9] [15] In 2022, she led her team in shots and was second in goals (14) and assists (5) in 23 games. [9] On September 1, she scored a hat trick against Wisconsin, with three goals all in the second half, and was named ACC Player of the Week. [16] [17] She received those honors again the week of October 11 after scoring twice and assisting twice across two wins over NC State and Florida State. [18] She was named first-team All-ACC and third-team All-American. [9] She scored three goals in the 2022 NCAA tournament to help Notre Dame reach the Elite Eight before losing to eventual finalists North Carolina. [5] [9]
The North Carolina Courage had multiple first-round picks in the 2023 NWSL Draft; Wingate said she expected to her name to be called in one of their later first-round spots, but at sixth overall, she was the team's first selection. [10] [19] In March 2023, she signed with the Courage through 2025. [20] She made her NWSL debut for the Courage on April 1, 2023, as a substitute in the season opener versus the Kansas City Current. [21]
Wingate scored her first NWSL goal on June 14, 2023, with the 2–1 game winner off a Haley Hopkins pass in the 92nd minute in a Challenge Cup match versus the Washington Spirit. [22]
Wingate first trained with the United States national under-16 team at a camp in Carson, California, in February 2015. [7] In May 2016, she played three games for the under-16 team and scored two goals in the first women's edition of the Tournament of Nations (Torneo delle Nazioni) in Gradisca d'Isonzo, Italy. [23] [24] In September 2016, she played another three games in an under-16 tournament in the Netherlands. [3] [23] She represented the United States with the national under-18 team on a three-game tour of England in February 2017. [25]
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