Sophia Lowenberg

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Sophia Lowenberg
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Lowenberg with Boston College in 2025
Personal information
Date of birth 2004 (age 20–21)
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Position(s) Midfielder, center back
Team information
Current team
 Boston Legacy
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2022–2025 Boston College Eagles 67 (7)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2026– Boston Legacy 0 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Sophia Lowenberg (born 2004) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder or defender for Boston Legacy FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). She played college soccer for the Boston College Eagles.

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Early life

Lowenberg grew up in Trumbull, Connecticut, one of two children born to Paul Lowenberg and Magda Elmaghrabi. [1] She began playing soccer when she was young and moved up two age groups by the time she was eight. [2] She also trained in mixed martial arts and achieved a second-degree black belt. [3] She played club soccer for Connecticut FC, earning ECNL all-conference honors. [4] She played four years for the varsity team at Trumbull High School, earning all-state honors twice and totaling 33 goals and 56 assists. [2] She developed as an attacking or central midfielder who could also play at center back or forward. [2] She committed to play college soccer for Boston College the summer before her junior year. [5] In 2021, she was named MVP of the High School All-American Game after playing center back for East in a 5–0 victory. [2]

College career

Lowenberg played for the Boston College Eagles from 2022 to 2025, appearing in 67 games, starting 41, and scoring 7 goals. [1] Positionally flexible, she played multiple roles for the team across her career. [6] She recorded career highs with 3 goals and 16 starts in her senior season. [1] Earlier that year, she played in both exhibition games for the Vermont Green women's team coached by Sam Mewis, scoring a stellar goal from distance in the first game and wearing the captain's armband in the second. [7]

Club career

On December 3, 2025, NWSL expansion team Boston Legacy announced that they had signed Lowenberg to her first professional contract on a two-year deal with the club option for another year. [8] She was the team's tenth player signed and the first from a local college. [9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Sophia Lowenberg". Boston College Eagles . Retrieved December 3, 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Bloxsom, Bill (December 29, 2021). "Sophia Lowenberg MVP at All American game". Trumbull Times . Retrieved December 3, 2025.
  3. ↑ Morelli, Joe (December 16, 2021). "The 2021 GameTimeCT All-State Girls Soccer Team". CT Insider . Retrieved December 3, 2025.
  4. ↑ "ECNL Girls New England All-Conference Teams". Elite Clubs National League. August 8, 2022. Retrieved December 3, 2025– via TopDrawerSoccer .
  5. ↑ Sigal, Jonathan (July 20, 2020). "Recruiting: Boston College, UConn add Class of 2022 midfielders". New England Soccer Journal . Retrieved December 3, 2025.
  6. ↑ Lodes, Sophie (October 6, 2023). "Pop Icons or Women's Soccer: A Midseason Review". The Gavel . Retrieved December 3, 2025.
  7. ↑ "Match Report: Vermont Green FC 4-0 Flower City 1872". Vermont Green. June 11, 2025. Retrieved December 3, 2025.
    "Match Report: Vermont Green FC 2-1 AS Blainville". Vermont Green. June 14, 2025. Retrieved December 3, 2025.
  8. ↑ "Boston Legacy Football Club Signs Sophia Lowenberg". Boston Legacy FC. December 3, 2025. Retrieved December 3, 2025.
  9. ↑ Healy, Emma (December 3, 2025). "Boston Legacy sign midfielder Sophia Lowenberg out of Boston College" . The Boston Globe . Retrieved December 3, 2025.
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