Penelope Hocking

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Penelope Hocking
Personal information
Full name Penelope Elizabeth Hocking [1]
Date of birth (1999-12-29) December 29, 1999 (age 24) [2]
Place of birth Anaheim, California, United States
Height 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Chicago Red Stars
Number 55
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2018–2021 USC Trojans 72 (54)
2022 Penn State Nittany Lions 23 (7)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2023– Chicago Red Stars 17 (3)
International career‡
2018 United States U20
2022 United States U23
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of March 16, 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of April 15, 2023

Penelope Elizabeth Hocking (born December 29, 1999) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for the Chicago Red Stars in the National Women's Soccer League. [2]

Contents

Youth career

Hocking grew up in Anaheim, California, and played high school soccer for Canyon High School. [3] [4] [5]

College career

Hocking played NCAA Division I women's soccer for the USC Trojans from 2018 to 2021, and for the Penn State Nittany Lions in 2022.

USC Trojans, 2018–2021

Hocking set a USC Trojans women's soccer record for career goals scored on October 7, 2021, with her 49th, surpassing the previous record held by Isabelle Harvey since 2000. [6] She finished her career with the Trojans with 54 goals scored, at the time the 12th most in Pac-12 history, [7] [8] in her 72 career games played. [9]

Penn State Nittany Lions, 2022

In 2022, Hocking transferred to Penn State to play her extra year of NCAA eligibility granted by the COVID-19 pandemic. [9] [10] She scored seven goals, and her 11 assists tied for the Big Ten Conference lead for the season. [7] [10]

Club career

National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) club Chicago Red Stars selected Hocking with the seventh overall pick in the 2023 NWSL Draft. [10] [11]

Chicago Red Stars, 2023–

On March 20, 2023, Hocking signed a three-year contract with the Red Stars, with an option for a fourth year. [12]

On March 25, 2023, Hocking made her debut for the Red Stars in a 2–3 loss against San Diego Wave FC as a starter. [13] On April 15, in her third start and appearance, Hocking scored her first professional goals as a brace against Kansas City Current in a 4–2 victory. [14]

International career

Hocking played for the United States women's national under-20 soccer team and competed in the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. [4] [15] She was also named to the under-23 roster for training camp in January 2022 and also for the 2022 Thorns Spring Invitational pre-season tournament against NWSL teams in March 2022. [16]

Personal life

Hocking's parents are former Cypress College basketball player Venetta Dorlis and former Major League Baseball player Denny Hocking. Her paternal grandmother was a youth soccer coach. [4] Hocking has a fraternal twin sister, Iliana, and they were the first twins born to a member of the Minnesota Twins. [17] [18] Penelope and Iliana played together at Canyon High School. [5]

Penelope and Iliana were the first sisters selected in the same NWSL Draft. Iliana played collegiate soccer as a midfielder for the Arizona Wildcats, a Pac-12 rival of USC that pitted the sisters against each other. [19] Iliana was drafted by NJ/NY Gotham FC with the 44th overall pick. [20]

At the University of Southern California, Hocking majored in computer science. [21]

Career statistics

As of match played March 16, 2024
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueCup [lower-alpha 1] Playoffs [lower-alpha 2] Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Chicago Red Stars 2023 NWSL 16332—195
2024 10——10
Career total1733200205

Honors

Penn State Nittany Lions

Individual

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  5. 1 2 Turner, Andrew (January 29, 2016). "Canyon's Hocking sisters enjoying the sweet life". The Orange County Register . Retrieved April 16, 2023.
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