WPS Player of the Month

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The Women's Professional Soccer Player of Month is a monthly soccer award for players in Women's Professional Soccer.

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The nominees are the Player of the week winners plus some proposals of WPS to usually get to 6 nominees. The voting is then open to media, fans and the teams with a waiting of 1/3 each.

Winners

MonthPlayer of the MonthClubMonth's Statline
April 2009 Flag of England.svg Kelly Smith Boston Breakers 3 G, 1 A in 3 games; Breakers 2-2-0 in April
May Flag of France.svg Sonia Bompastor Washington Freedom 2 G, 3 A in 4 games; Freedom 2-0-2 in May
June Flag of France.svg Camille Abily Los Angeles Sol 5 G in 6 games; Sol 4-0-2 in June
July Flag of the United States.svg Abby Wambach Washington Freedom 4 G, 1 A in 5 games; Freedom 3-2-1 in July
April 2010 Flag of the United States.svg Lori Lindsey Philadelphia Independence
May Flag of England.svg Karen Bardsley Sky Blue FC
June Flag of the United States.svg Amy Rodriguez Philadelphia Independence
July Flag of the United States.svg Jordan Angeli Boston Breakers
August Flag of England.svg Kelly Smith Boston Breakers
May 2011 Flag of the United States.svg McCall Zerboni Western New York Flash

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