Chicago (June 26, 2024) – United States Women’s National Team head coach Emma Hayes has named 18 players and four alternates for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Only eight players from the 2020 U.S. Olympic roster (which played in 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic) returned this summer, while 10 players were named to the U.S. 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup squad. The last list of Paris.
2024 US Olympic Women’s Soccer Team Roster by Position (Caps/Goals):
Goalkeepers (2): Casey Murphy (North Carolina Courage; 19), Alyssa Naher (Chicago Red Stars; 104)
defenders (6) Tierna Davidson (NJ/NY Gotham FC, 58/3), Emily Fox (Arsenal FC, ENG, 49/1), Naomi Grace (San Diego Wave FC, 32/0), Casey Krueger (Washington Spirit, 49/0). Jenna Nightswonger (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 9/2), Emily Sonnett (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 91/2)
medium (5) Corbin Albert (Paris Saint-Germain, FRA; 11/0), Sam Coffey (Portland Thorns FC, 17/1), Lindsey Horan (Olympics Lyon, FRA, 148/35), Rose Lavelle (NJ/Ni Gotham FC; 100) /24), Catarina Macario (Chelsea FC, Eng, 19/8)
Forward (5):Crystal Dunn (NJ/NY Gotham FC, 147/25), Trinity Rodman (Washington Spirit, 38/7), Jadyn Shaw (San Diego Wave FC, 14/7), Sophia Smith (Portland Thorns FC, 48/19); Mallory Swanson (Chicago Red Stars; 92/34)
Alternatives: Goalkeeper Jane Campbell, midfielder Hal Hershfelt, midfielder Croix Bettun and forward Lynn Williams.
“Making the Olympic roster is a huge privilege and honor and there’s no denying that it was a very competitive process among the players and that there were tough choices, especially given how hard everyone has worked over the past 10 months,” Hayes said. . “Picking an 18-man roster and alternates involves a lot of considerations, but I’m excited for the squad we’ve picked and I’m looking forward to building on the work from last camp as we head into the draw-off matches and then to France. These are great opportunities to continue to showcase the progress we are making.
In the year The 2024 U.S. Olympic women’s soccer team will face Red Bull for the first time on July 8 in New Jersey on July 13 (3:30 p.m. ET on TNT, truTV, Telemundo, Universo, Max and Peacock). Arena in Harrison, NJ in the Impact 99 Legacy Match, presented by New York Life. The USA heads to the nation’s capital for a 2024 send-off match presented by Coca-Cola against Costa Rica on July 16 at Audi Field in Washington, D.C. (7:30 p.m. ET on TNT, truTV, Universo, Max). and Peacock).
At the 2024 Paris Olympics, the eighth Olympic Games to feature women’s soccer, the U.S. will play a Group B game on July 25 — one day before the opening ceremony — against Zambia (9 p.m. local / 3 p.m. ET) at Nice’s Stade de Nice. . The Americans then take on Germany in their second match at the Stade de Marseille on July 28 (9 pm local / 3 pm ET) and conclude their group stage play against Australia on July 31. Located in southern France, Nice is about 600 miles from Paris, close to the French border with Monaco and Italy. Located 125 miles west of Nice, Marseille is the second largest city in France.
Before this roster was named, 19 USWNT players had previously made three or more Olympic teams. Add to that list three-time Olympians Alyssa Naher, Crystal Dunn and Lindsay Horan.
Defenders Tierna Davidson, Emily Sonnett and Casey Krueger, midfielders Rose Lavelle and Katarina Macario and forward Mallory Swanson will make their second Olympic teams. Kruger and Macario were originally named as alternates for the 2020 Olympics, but when rosters expanded from 18 to 22 due to the pandemic, they were officially added to the squad. Each played a few minutes per match. Swanson in 2010 He was not named in the 2021 Olympic roster, but played in the 2016 Olympics in Brazil as an 18-year-old.
The first-time Olympians are goalkeeper Casey Murphy, defenders Emily Fox, Naomi Grace and Jenna Nigswonger, midfielders Corbin Albert and Sam Coffey, and forwards Trinity Rodman, Sophia Smith and JD Shaw. For Nigswonger, Albert, Coffey and Shaw, the 2024 Paris Olympics will be their first senior world championships.
Hayes also named four alternates who will travel to France and train with the team during their Olympic stay in goalkeeper Jane Campbell, uncapped midfielders Hal Herschfelt and Crooks Betten and forward Lynn Williams. Campbell was the alternate goalkeeper for the 2020 Japan Olympics before being moved to the active roster due to the spread of the Covid-19 roster. Both Hershfelt and Bethune entered the first USWNT camp in June — which was Hayes’ first camp — as a practice player and Hershfelt as a member of the full roster, though she did not see any action in either match against Korea Republic. Williams was a member of the U.S. 2020 Olympic team and the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup team. She is the most experienced substitute with 63 games and 18 career goals. Williams, the National Women’s Soccer League’s all-time leading scorer, scored against the Netherlands in the 2020 Olympic quarterfinals.
USA in the year In the year In 2016, he lost in the penalty shootout quarter-finals and won a bronze medal in 2021. The USWNT is 24W-4L-7D all-time in Olympic competition.
2024 US Olympic Women’s Soccer Team Roster Notes:
- The Olympic roster is split into tiers of two goalkeepers, six defensemen, five midfielders and five forwards, but several players on the roster can play multiple positions for the US.
- The eight returning players from the 2020 Olympic team are goalkeeper Alyssa Naher, defenders Tierna Davidson, Casey Kruger and Emily Sonnett, midfielders Lindsay Horan, Rose Lavelle and Katarina Macario and forward Crystal Dunn.
- Horan and Dunn have the most Olympic appearances with 10 each. Horan, Dunn, Lavelle and Mallory Swanson all scored once in the Olympic Games. Swanson and Dunn scored at the 2016 Olympics in Brazil, while Horan and Lavelle scored at the 2021 Olympics in Japan.
- The average age of the 18-player roster is 26.8, making it the fourth-youngest roster the United States has sent to the Olympics and the youngest since 2008. The average age of the 2020 Olympic team was 30.8.
- The U.S. Women’s National Team has participated in every Olympic women’s soccer tournament and will make the eighth all-time this summer.
- He averages 58 games per player heading into the two qualifiers, with 43 Olympic experience and four goals. In the year The 2020 Olympic team has an average of 111 international caps per player heading into the two sending matches in July 2021, and a total of 77 Olympic caps with 17 Olympic goals entering the Tokyo Games.
- Four of the 18 players on the roster for the 2024 Paris Olympics have played more than 100 caps, led by Horan with 148. Dunne has 147 international caps, followed by Alyssa Naher (104 caps) and Lavelle (100). Nine players on the 2020 Olympic team have played more than 100 games.
- Jenna Nigswonger, the youngest player on the roster, has played nine times for the US. Corbin Albert has 11 caps.
- At the 2020 Olympics, Davidson, 22, was the youngest player on the roster, a distinction she held at the 2019 World Cup. The youngest player at this Olympics is 19-year-old Jedyn Shaw. She is the fifth youngest player and the fifth youngest player on the US Olympic women’s soccer team. Cindy Pallow, Swanson, Tiffany Roberts and Heather O’Reilly are the only junior Olympians in USWNT history.
- The roster includes five players from California (Tierna Davidson, Naomi Grace, Nigswonger, Katarina Macario and Trinity Rodman), three from Colorado (Horan, Sophia Smith and Swanson) and two players each from New York (Sam Coffey and Dunn). and Illinois (Albert and Casey Kruger).
- Of the 16 players on the roster, only Girma, Albert and Kruger have not scored an international goal.
- Of the 18 players on the roster, 14 played for the U.S. at the FIFA Women’s World Cup at the youth level.
- There are 14 NWSL players on the roster and they come from just six clubs: five from NJ/New Gotham FC and two each from Chicago Red Stars, Portland Thorns FC, San Diego Wave FC and Washington Spirit. Murphy is the lone representative from North Carolina Courage.
- The remaining four players will compete for European clubs, while two – Horan and Albert – will return to France and play their club football for rivals Olympique Lyonnais and Paris Saint-Germain. Macario (Chelsea FC) and Fox (Arsenal FC) will ply their trade in England’s Women’s Super League, although Macario will begin her international career at Lyon in 2021 and won the UEFA Women’s Champions League with the French powerhouse.
- 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Team member Alyssa Thompson and defenders Kate Wisner and Emily Sams serve as training players during the United States’ match against Mexico on July 13 at their training camp in New Jersey. This is Sams first call to the senior team.