Former Gilbert resident and professional soccer participant Ashley Hatch is in line for a return to the Phoenix space subsequent month with the U.S. girls’s nationwide crew.
Hatch, a ahead for the Washington Spirit of the Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League (NWSL), was named to the 26-player roster for a coaching camp in Carson, California, that begins subsequent Tuesday and runs via Jan. 21.
The Emma Hayes-coached crew’s camp precedes subsequent month’s SheBelieves Cup, and the roster for these matches ought to be some mixture of gamers from the January camp and European-based gamers, who aren’t a part of the January camp roster. However 11 of the 22 gamers who gained the gold medal on the 2024 Paris Olympics are invited to the camp.
The U.S., at present the top-ranked nationwide crew in FIFA’s girls’s soccer rankings, opens the SheBelieves Cup on Feb. 20 in opposition to Colombia in Houston. Then comes a match in opposition to Australia on Feb. 23 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
The Individuals shut out the match in opposition to Japan on Feb. 26 in San Diego.
Hatch, 29, has made 22 profession nationwide crew appearances with 5 objectives scored. The previous BYU star has 53 profession NWSL common season objectives, and earned her first USWNT call-up for the reason that finish of 2023. That 12 months, she performed on Dec. 5, 2023, in opposition to China.
Hatch scored seven objectives with three assists for the Spirit in 2024 as her crew made the NWSL championship match however misplaced 1-0 to the Orlando Delight.
“We’ve been watching these gamers week in, week out,” Hayes instructed the Deseret Information of Utah. “There’s a possibility for Ashley to come back into camp and on the again of a membership that carried out very well.”
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