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 group.
Hatch, a ahead for the Washington Spirit of the Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League (NWSL), was named to the 26-player roster for a coaching camp in Carson, California, that begins subsequent Tuesday and runs by way of Jan. 21.
The Emma Hayes-coached group’s camp precedes subsequent month’s SheBelieves Cup, and the roster for these matches must be some mixture of gamers from the January camp and European-based gamers, who are usually not a part of the January camp roster. However 11 of the 22 gamers who received the gold medal on the 2024 Paris Olympics are invited to the camp.
The U.S., at the moment the top-ranked nationwide group 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 People shut out the match in opposition to Japan on Feb. 26 in San Diego.
Hatch, 29, has made 22 profession nationwide group appearances with 5 objectives scored. The previous BYU star has 53 profession NWSL common season objectives, and earned her first USWNT call-up because the finish of 2023. That yr, she performed on Dec. 5, 2023, in opposition to China.
Hatch scored seven objectives with three assists for the Spirit in 2024 as her group made the NWSL championship match however misplaced 1-0 to the Orlando Satisfaction.
“We’ve been watching these gamers week in, week out,” Hayes informed the Deseret Information of Utah. “There’s a chance for Ashley to return into camp and on the again of a membership that carried out very well.”
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