CHICAGO (June 26, 2024) – U.S. Ladies’s Nationwide Group head coach Emma Hayes has named the 18-player roster plus 4 alternates for the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games. Simply eight gamers who had been on the USA’s roster for the 2020 Olympics (which was performed in 2021 as a result of COVID-19 pandemic) make a return this summer season whereas 10 gamers who had been members of the USA’s 2023 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup Group had been named to the ultimate roster for Paris.
2024 U.S. Olympic Ladies’s Soccer Group Roster by Place (Caps/Objectives):
GOALKEEPERS (2): Casey Murphy (North Carolina Braveness; 19), Alyssa Naeher (Chicago Crimson Stars; 104)
DEFENDERS (6): Tierna Davidson (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 58/3), Emily Fox (Arsenal FC, ENG; 49/1), Naomi Girma (San Diego Wave FC; 32/0), Casey Krueger (Washington Spirit; 49/0), Jenna Nighswonger (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 9/2), Emily Sonnett (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 91/2)
MIDFIELDERS (5): Korbin Albert (Paris Saint-Germain, FRA; 11/0), Sam Coffey (Portland Thorns FC; 17/1), Lindsey Horan (Olympique Lyon, FRA; 148/35), Rose Lavelle (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 100/24), Catarina Macario (Chelsea FC, ENG; 19/8)
FORWARDS (5):Crystal Dunn (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 147/25), Trinity Rodman (Washington Spirit; 38/7), Jaedyn Shaw (San Diego Wave FC; 14/7), Sophia Smith (Portland Thorns FC; 48/19), Mallory Swanson (Chicago Crimson Stars; 92/34)
Alternates: Goalkeeper JaneCampbell, midfielder Hal Hershfelt, midfielder Croix Bethune and ahead Lynn Williams.
“Making an Olympic roster is a big privilege and an honor and there’s no denying that it was a particularly aggressive course of among the many gamers and that there have been troublesome decisions, particularly contemplating how arduous everybody has labored over the previous 10 months,” stated Hayes. “Selecting an 18-player roster plus alternates concerned many concerns, however I’m excited for the group we’ve chosen and I’m wanting ahead to constructing on the work from final camp as we head into the Ship-Off matches after which onto France. These are nice alternatives for us to proceed to point out the progress we’re making.”
The 2024 U.S. Olympic Ladies’s Soccer Group will come collectively for the primary time on July 8 in New Jersey in preparation to face Mexico on July 13 (3:30 p.m. ET on TNT, truTV, Telemundo, Universo, Max and Peacock) at Crimson Bull Enviornment in Harrison, N.J within the Impression 99 Legacy Match, offered by New York Life. The USA will then head to the nation’s capital for the 2024 Ship-Off Match, offered by Coca-Cola, on July 16 in opposition to Costa Rica at Audi Area in Washington, D.C. (7:30 p.m. ET on TNT, truTV, Universo, Max and Peacock).
On the 2024 Paris Olympics, the eighth Olympic Video games to characteristic girls’s soccer, the U.S. will open Group B play on July 25 – someday earlier than the Opening Ceremonies – in opposition to Zambia (9 p.m. native / 3 p.m. ET) at Stade de Good in Good. The People will then play Germany on July 28 (9 p.m. native / 3 p.m. ET) at Marseille’s Stade de Marseille of their second match and end group play in opposition to Australia on July 31 (7 p.m. native / 1 p.m. ET), additionally in Marseille. Situated within the south of France, Good is sort of 600 miles from Paris close to France’s border with Monaco and Italy. Marseille, situated 125 miles west of Good, is the second-largest metropolis in France.
Previous to the naming of this roster, 19 USWNT gamers had beforehand made three or extra Olympic Groups. Add to that checklist three-time Olympians Alyssa Naeher, Crystal Dunn and Lindsey Horan.
Defenders Tierna Davidson, Emily Sonnett and Casey Krueger, midfielders Rose Lavelle and Catarina Macario and ahead Mallory Swanson make their second Olympic Groups. Krueger and Macario had been initially named as alternates for the 2020 Olympics, however when rosters had been expanded from 18 to 22 as a result of pandemic, they had been formally added to the staff. Every performed a couple of minutes in a single match. Swanson was not named to the Olympic roster in 2021 however did play within the 2016 Olympics in Brazil on the age of 18.
The primary-time Olympians are goalkeeper Casey Murphy, defenders Emily Fox, Naomi Girma and Jenna Nighswonger, midfielders Korbin Albert and Sam Coffey and forwards Trinity Rodman, Sophia Smith and Jaedyn Shaw. For Nighswonger, Albert, Coffey and Shaw, the 2024 Paris Olympics will probably be their first senior stage world championship.
Hayes additionally named 4 alternate gamers who will journey to France and practice with the staff at some stage in the Olympics in goalkeeper Jane Campbell, uncapped midfielders Hal Hershfelt and Croix Bethune and ahead Lynn Williams. Campbell was additionally the alternate goalkeeper for the 2020 Olympics in Japan earlier than being moved to the lively roster as a result of Covid-19 roster enlargement. Each Hershfelt and Bethune got here into their first USWNT camp in June – which was additionally the primary camp for Hayes – Bethune as a coaching participant and Hershfelt as a member of the total roster, although she didn’t see motion in both match in opposition to Korea Republic. Williams was a member of the USA’s 2020 Olympic Group and 2023 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup Group. She is by far essentially the most skilled alternate with 63 caps and 18 profession targets. Williams, the all-time main scorer within the Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League, scored within the 2020 Olympic quarterfinal in opposition to the Netherlands.
The USA received the inaugural Olympic gold medal for ladies’s soccer in 1996 in Atlanta, received silver in 2000 in Sydney after which received three straight golds, standing atop the rostrum in Athens, Greece in 2004, Beijing in 2008 and London in 2012. The USA fell within the quarterfinals in penalty kicks in 2016 and earned a bronze medal in 2021. The USWNT is 24W-4L-7D all-time in Olympic competitors.
2024 U.S. Olympic Ladies’s Soccer Group Roster Notes:
- The Olympic roster is damaged down by place into two goalkeepers, six defenders, 5 midfielders and 5 forwards, however quite a few gamers on the roster can and have performed a number of positions for the USA.
- The eight gamers who return from the 2020 Olympic Group are goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher, defenders Tierna Davidson, Casey Krueger and Emily Sonnett, midfielders Lindsey Horan, Rose Lavelle and Catarina Macario and ahead Crystal Dunn.
- Horan and Dunn have essentially the most Olympic appearances coming into the match with 10 every. Horan, Dunn, Lavelle and Mallory Swanson all have scored as soon as within the Olympic Video games. Swanson and Dunn scored within the 2016 Olympics in Brazil whereas Horan and Lavelle scored in Japan in 2021.
- The 18-player roster has a mean age of 26.8, which is the fourth-youngest roster the USA has ever despatched to the Olympics and the youngest since 2008. The common age of the 2020 Olympic Group was 30.8 years outdated.
- The U.S. Ladies’s Nationwide Group has competed in each Olympic girls’s soccer match ever contested and will probably be making its eighth all-time look this summer season.
- The roster averages 58 caps per participant heading into the 2 Ship-Off Matches, has a mixed 43 matches of Olympic expertise and 4 Olympic targets. The 2020 Olympic Group averaged 111 worldwide caps per participant heading into the 2 Ship-Off Matches in July of 2021 and had a mixed whole of 77 Olympic appearances with 17 Olympic targets getting into the Tokyo Video games.
- 4 of the 18 gamers on the roster for the 2024 Paris Olympics have 100+ caps, led by Horan with 148. Dunn has 147 worldwide appearances adopted by Alyssa Naeher (104 caps) and Lavelle (100). There have been 9 gamers on the 2020 Olympic Group with greater than 100 caps.
- The least capped participant on the roster is Jenna Nighswonger, who has performed 9 instances for the USA. Korbin Albert has 11 caps.
- On the 2020 Olympics, a 22-year-old Davidson was the youngest participant on the roster, a distinction she additionally held on the 2019 World Cup. At this Olympics, the youngest participant is 19-year-old Jaedyn Shaw. She is the fifth-youngest participant and fifth teenager ever named to a U.S. Olympic Ladies’s Soccer Group. Cindy Parlow, Swanson, Tiffany Roberts and Heather O’Reilly are the one youthful Olympians in USWNT historical past.
- There are 5 gamers on the roster from California (Tierna Davidson, Naomi Girma, Nighswonger, Catarina Macario and Trinity Rodman) with three from Colorado (Horan, Sophia Smith and Swanson) and two gamers every hailing from New York (Sam Coffey and Dunn) and Illinois (Albert and Casey Krueger).
- Of the 16 area gamers on the roster, solely Girma, Albert and Krueger have but to attain a global aim.
- Fourteen of the 18 gamers on the roster have performed for the USA in a FIFA Ladies’s World Cup on the youth stage.
- There are 14 NWSL gamers on the roster and so they come from simply six golf equipment: 5 from NJ/NY Gotham FC and two every from the Chicago Crimson Stars, Portland Thorns FC, San Diego Wave FC and Washington Spirit. Murphy is the lone consultant from the North Carolina Braveness.
- The opposite 4 gamers compete for European golf equipment and two – Horan and Albert – will return to France the place they play their membership soccer for rivals Olympique Lyon and Paris Saint-Germain, respectively. Macario (Chelsea FC) and Fox (Arsenal FC) ply their trades in England’s Ladies’s Tremendous League, although Macario started her worldwide profession with Lyon in 2021 and received a UEFA Ladies’s Champions League title with the perennial French powers.
- 2023 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup Group member Alyssa Thompson and defenders Kate Wiesner and Emily Sams will function coaching gamers through the USA’s coaching camp in New Jersey main as much as the match in opposition to Mexico on July 13. That is Sams’ first call-up to the senior staff.
