The 2022 NWSL Draft is within the books and with the primary general choose, enlargement aspect San Diego Wave FC chosen Stanford centerback Naomi Girma, adopted by WAC Offensive Participant of the 12 months winner Marleen Schimmer out of Grand Canyon with their ninth choose. San Diego’s enlargement counterpart, Angel Metropolis FC, didn’t make their first choose till Spherical 3 as they landed Illinois midfielder Hope Breslin.
All in all, 50 collegiate gamers have been chosen, with Racing Louisville FC and OL Reign boasting essentially the most picks (six) and the Houston Sprint with the fewest (No. 44 general). For our winners and losers of Spherical 1, click on right here.
No crew had extra first-round picks than the North Carolina Braveness, who got here away with three key items so as to add to every positional core on their roster. They addressed the center of the park by going with Virginia Tech midfielder Emily Grey at No. 3, adopted by the assault at No. 6 with Virginia ahead Diana Ordoñez — who scored 45 targets over three collegiate seasons — after which the backline with Lengthy Seashore State defender Kaitlin Fregulia with the twelfth and last choose of the spherical.
No crew made extra trades than OL Reign, as their front-office people most likely spent the vast majority of the draft working the telephones and finalizing 4 separate offers, together with a deal that moved them again into the primary spherical and noticed them take Hungarian ahead Zsanett Kajan with the No. 8 choose. All in all, the Reign acquired Kajan (No. 8), Ryanne Brown (No. 21), Phoebe McClernon, $60,000 totaled in allocation cash in alternate for the Nos. 10 and 15 picks (Caitlin Cosme and Madison Elwell), Kelcie Hedge, Leah Pruitt, Celia Jimenéz, a primary and second rounder in 2023. That is a number of strikes — all of which you’ll be able to preserve monitor of beneath with our commerce tracker.
The Washington Spirit traded into the second spherical twice — in back-to-back picks — to pick out LSU ahead Tinaya Alexander at No. 14 and Vanderbilt midfielder/ahead Madison Elwell at No. 15.
With the draft within the rear-view mirror, that is now a busy interval for gamers that registered and didn’t get picked on Saturday. The undrafted gamers shall be assigned as discovery eligible by Sunday, however may return to high school and retain their collegiate eligibility inside 72 hours of the conclusion of the draft, per NCAA guidelines.
You may observe each choose and commerce made through the draft beneath, together with our commentary from Saturday’s picks:
Commerce tracker
OL Reign get: No. 8 choose
NJ/NY Gotham FC get: Pure first-round choose in 2023 and $40,000 in allocation cash
Houston Sprint get: Midfielder Kelcie Hedge
OL Reign get: No. 21 general choose (Ryanne Brown) and $15,000 in allocation cash
Orlando Satisfaction get: No. 10 general choose (Caitlin Cosme), ahead Leah Pruitt, defender Celia Jimenéz and a pure second-round choose in 2023
OL Reign get: Defender Phoebe McClernon
Washington Spirit get: No. 14 general choose (Tinaya Alexander)
San Diego Wave FC get: $85,000 in allocation cash
Washington Spirit get: No. 15 general choose (Madison Elwell)
OL Reign get: $85,000 in allocation cash
Chicago Pink Stars get: $20,000 in allocation cash and Spirit’s highest second-round choose in 2023
Washington Spirit get: No. 23 general choose (Lucy Shepherd)
Orlando Satisfaction get: NWSL rights to Canadian worldwide Deanne Rose
North Carolina Braveness get: No. 29 general choose (Haleigh Stackpole)
Spherical 1
|
1 |
San Diego Wave FC |
Naomi Girma |
D/M |
Stanford |
|
2 |
Racing Louisville FC |
Jaelin Howell |
M |
Florida State |
|
3 |
North Carolina Braveness |
Emily Grey |
M |
Virginia Tech |
|
4 |
Racing Louisville FC |
Savannah DeMelo |
M |
USC |
|
5 |
Orlando Satisfaction |
Mia Fishel |
F |
UCLA |
|
6 |
North Carolina Braveness |
Diana Ordoñez |
F |
Virginia |
|
7 |
Kansas Metropolis Present |
Elyse Bennett |
F |
Washington State |
|
8 |
OL Reign |
Zsanett Kajan |
F |
St. John’s |
|
9 |
San Diego Wave FC |
Marleen Schimmer |
M/F |
Grand Canyon |
|
10 |
Orlando Satisfaction |
Caitlin Cosme |
D |
Duke |
|
11 |
Orlando Satisfaction |
Julie Doyle |
F |
Santa Clara |
|
12 |
North Carolina Braveness |
Kaitlin Fregulia |
D |
Lengthy Seashore State |
Spherical 2
|
13 |
Portland Thorns FC |
Sydny Nasello |
F |
South Florida |
|
14 |
Washington Spirit |
Tinaya Alexander |
F |
LSU |
|
15 |
Washington Spirit |
Madison Elwell |
M/F |
Vanderbilt |
|
16 |
Racing Louisville FC |
Charmé Morgan |
D |
Oklahoma State |
|
17 |
Kansas Metropolis Present |
Chardonnay Curran |
M/D |
Oregon |
|
18 |
Chicago Pink Stars |
Ava Prepare dinner |
F |
Michigan State |
|
19 |
Chicago Pink Stars |
Sammi Fischer |
M |
Notre Dame |
|
20 |
OL Reign |
Claudia Dickey |
GK |
North Carolina |
|
21 |
OL Reign |
Ryanne Brown |
F |
Wake Forest |
|
22 |
Portland Thorns FC |
Gabby Provenzano |
D/M |
Rutgers |
|
23 |
Washington Spirit |
Lucy Shepherd |
F/M |
Hofstra |
|
24 |
NJ/NY Gotham FC |
Kelly Ann Livingstone |
D |
Georgetown |
| 25 | San Diego Wave FC | Sydney Pulver | M/D | Washington State |
| 26 | Racing Louisville FC | Jordyn Bloomer | GK | Wisconsin |
Spherical 3
|
27 |
San Diego Wave FC |
Belle Briede |
F/M |
Stanford |
|
28 |
Angel Metropolis FC |
Hope Breslin |
M |
Illinois |
|
29 |
North Carolina Braveness |
Haleigh Stackpole |
F/M |
Ole Miss |
|
30 |
Racing Louisville FC |
Jenna Menta |
F |
Wake Forest |
|
31 |
Orlando Satisfaction |
Jada Talley |
F |
USC |
|
32 |
OL Reign |
Kaile Halvorsen |
F/M |
Santa Clara |
|
33 |
OL Reign |
Olivia Van der Jagt |
M |
Washington |
|
34 |
NJ/NY Gotham FC |
Hensley Hancuff |
GK |
Clemson |
|
35 |
Chicago Pink Stars |
Sarah Griffith |
F |
Purdue |
|
36 |
Angel Metropolis FC |
Lily Nabet |
M |
Duke |
|
37 |
Chicago Pink Stars |
Kayla McKeon |
M |
Arkansas |
|
38 |
Washington Spirit |
Audrey Harding |
F/M |
UNC-Wilmington |
Spherical 4
|
39 |
Angel Metropolis FC |
Miriael Taylor |
F |
Hofstra |
|
40 |
San Diego Wave FC |
Kayla Bruster |
D |
Georgia |
|
41 |
Kansas Metropolis Present |
Jenna Winebrenner |
D |
TCU |
|
42 |
Racing Louisville FC |
Sydney Cummings |
D |
Georgetown |
|
43 |
Kansas Metropolis Present |
Izzy Rodriguez |
D |
Ohio State |
|
44 |
Houston Sprint |
Ryan Gareis |
F |
South Carolina |
|
45 |
North Carolina Braveness |
Marisa Bova |
GK |
Purdue |
|
46 |
NJ/NY Gotham FC |
Raleigh Loughman |
M |
Michigan |
|
47 |
OL Reign |
Marley Canales |
M |
UCLA |
|
48 |
Portland Thorns FC |
Natalie Beckman |
F |
Denver |
|
49 |
Chicago Pink Stars |
Jayda Hylton-Pelaia |
D |
Arizona State |
|
50 |
Washington Spirit |
Jordan Thompson |
D |
Gonzaga |
