Beverly Leon

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Beverly Leon
Personal information
Date of birth (1992-04-23) April 23, 1992 (age 31)
Place of birth Wrentham, Massachusetts, United States
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2010–2013 Columbia Lions 66 (17)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2015 Stjarnan 2 (0)
2016–2018 Sunderland 11 (5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of May 23, 2022

Beverly Leon is a former American footballer and entrepreneur. She played as a midfielder for Sunderland in the FA Women's Super League. She previously played for the Icelandic Stjarnan club.

Biography

Leon grew up in Wrentham, Massachusetts, and attended Milton Academy, where she was Boston Globe Player of the Year, and the recipient of Milton's Priscilla Bailey Award for demonstrating "exceptional individual skills and teamwork as well as sportsmanship." [1]

Leon then attended Columbia University and played for Columbia's varsity women's soccer team. [2] After graduating from Columbia in 2014, Leon worked for Morgan Stanley in the global capital markets division. [3] [4]

After a year at Morgan Stanley, Leon played for Stjarnan women's football and then signed to play for Sunderland A.F.C. Ladies as a midfielder. She was the top scorer in the team's 2017 Spring Series. [5]

Leon then pursued her education at Green Templeton College, Oxford and Columbia Business School. [6] [7] [8] In 2018, she founded Local Civics, which is a startup that uses game-based learning to encourage kids to strengthen their civic leadership skills. [9] Leon was named to the 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 list. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Beverly Leon '10 is Boston Globe Player of the Year". Milton Academy. June 30, 2010. Retrieved May 23, 2022.
  2. ↑ "Beverly Leon - Women's Soccer". Columbia University Athletics. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  3. ↑ "Beverly Leon". Nova Premier Soccer Club. 2020-06-22. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  4. ↑ Fall 2018; Features. "Playing for Real, Beverly Leon '10 | Milton Magazine" . Retrieved 2022-05-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ↑ "Beverly Leon '14CC Signs With Sunderland AFC Ladies In English League". Columbia University Athletics. 8 September 2016. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  6. ↑ Schmitt, Jeff (2018-10-11). "Meet Columbia Business School's MBA Class Of 2020". Poets&Quants. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  7. ↑ "Beverly Leon '20CBS, Co-Founder of Local Civics". Columbia Entrepreneurship. 2021-10-13. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  8. ↑ "STRIKER FOR DEMOCRACY". www.alumni.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  9. ↑ "How I Built Resilience: Beverly Leon of Local Civics". NPR.org. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  10. ↑ "Beverly Leon". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
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