CHICAGO (Jan. 7, 2025) – U.S. Women’s National Team head coach Emma Hayes has named a 26-player roster for the year-opening training camp being held from January 14-21 at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif.
Although a training camp was not held at the beginning of 2024, the January training camp has been a staple of the USWNT schedule for years. This year’s week of January training will not include any international matches but will be held concurrently with a 24-player Futures Camp, featuring up-and-coming USWNT prospects. That roster will be announced tomorrow.
The roster for the USWNT January training camp does not feature any of the USA’s European-based players as it is taking place outside an official FIFA international window. In addition, the “Triple Espresso” front line of Trinity Rodman, Sophia Smith and Mallory Swanson will not attend as each continues off-season rest and recovery from injuries. Midfielder Rose Lavelle, who recently underwent ankle surgery, will also not attend. With just 11 of the 22 members of the 2024 gold medal-winning Olympic Team attending camp, that provides opportunities for other players. To that end, Hayes has called in six uncapped players who will be attending their first senior team training camp and a total of 13 players who have three or fewer caps.
“We want to continue to foster an environment and culture on the National Team that is player-centric and female athlete-centric and helps the players maximize their abilities,” said Hayes. “Having positive, growth experiences with the USWNT will help them in their careers and help us build a deeper player pool. I’m really looking forward to getting on the field with these players and the players in the Futures Camp to get in a solid week of training with both groups without having to make adjustments for the impact that a match would have on our loading and training plan. I can’t wait.”
U.S. Women’s National Team Roster by Position (Club; Caps/Goals) – 2025 January Training Camp
GOALKEEPERS (4): Angelina Anderson (Angel City FC; 0), Claudia Dickey (Seattle Reign FC; 0), Mandy McGlynn (Utah Royals; 1), Casey Murphy (North Carolina Courage; 20)
DEFENDERS (9): Tierna Davidson (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 65/3), Crystal Dunn (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 155/25), Naomi Girma (San Diego Wave FC; 44/2), Alyssa Malonson (Bay FC; 1/0), Tara McKeown (Washington Spirit; 0/0), Jenna Nighswonger (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 18/2), Emily Sams (Orlando Pride; 2/0), Emily Sonnett (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 103/2), Ryan Williams (North Carolina Courage; 0/0)
MIDFIELDERS (7): Sam Coffey (Portland Thorns FC; 28/1), Savannah DeMelo (Racing Louisville FC; 7/0), Hal Hershfelt (Washington Spirit; 3/0), Nealy Martin (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 0/0), Ashley Sanchez (North Carolina Courage; 28/3), Ally Sentnor (Utah Royals; 2/0), Jaedyn Shaw (San Diego Wave FC; 21/8)
FORWARDS (6): Ashley Hatch (Washington Spirit; 22/5), Emma Sears (Racing Louisville FC; 3/1), Ella Stevens (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 0/0), Alyssa Thompson (Angel City FC; 13/1), Morgan Weaver (Portland Thorns FC; 2/0), Lynn Williams (Seattle Reign FC; 75/21)
Fourteen players who traveled with the USA to England and the Netherlands for the final two matches of the 2024 schedule were named to this roster.
Six-foot-one goalkeeper Casey Murphy (28-years-old), who is now the most experienced of the USWNT goalkeeper corps with 20 caps, returns to the roster, and with the retirement of Alyssa Naeher, the trio of Angel City FC’s Angelina Anderson (23), Utah Royals’ Mandy McGlynn (26) and Seattle Reign FC’s Claudia Dickey (25) rounds out the group of netminders called up. The 5-foot-9 McGlynn earned her first and thus far only cap on Oct. 30, 2024 vs. Argentina and picked up her first shutout, while the 6-foot Anderson and the 5-foot-11 Dickey will be in their first senior team events.
Defender Crystal Dunn returns to the camp after missing all the fall games and is the most capped player on the roster with 155 appearances for the USA. Defender Emily Sonnett (103) and forward Lynn Williams (75) have the next most caps, followed by central defenders Tierna Davidson (65) and Naomi Girma (43). No one else on the roster has more than 28 caps, which is the number of USWNT appearances for midfielders Sam Coffey and Ashley Sanchez.
This training camp will set the stage for the 2025 SheBelieves Cup, which will be held during a FIFA window, making all European-based players available for selection. At the 2025 SheBelieves Cup, the world’s top-ranked U.S. Women’s National Team will host Japan (#7 in the current FIFA Women’s World Rankings), Australia (#15) and Colombia (#21) as the competition returns to its traditional six-game, three-matchday format after being played in a four-game, two-date format last year due to the new FIFA windows in years that feature the Olympic Games.
The schedule will see the USA open the tournament against Colombia on Thursday, Feb. 20 at Shell Energy Stadium in Houston (7 p.m. CT / 8 p.m. ET on TBS, Max and in Spanish on Universo and Peacock) while Japan faces Australia at 4 p.m. CT / 5 p.m. ET (Max, Universo and Peacock). The teams will then move to State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, where the USA faces Australia on Feb. 23 at 3 p.m. MT / 5 p.m. ET (TBS, Max and in Spanish on Universo and Peacock) and Colombia takes on Japan at Noon MT / 2 p.m. ET (Max, Universo and Peacock). The final two games will take place at Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego on Feb. 26 with the USA facing Japan at 7:30 p.m. PT / 10:30 p.m. ET (TBS, Max and in Spanish on Universo and Peacock) and Australia taking on Colombia at 4:30 p.m. PT / 7:30 p.m. ET (Max, Universo and Peacock). Tickets are available on ussoccer.com.
Additional Notes:
- All 26 players come from the NWSL representing 11 different clubs, with NJ/NY Gotham FC leading the way with six players. The Washington Spirit and North Carolina Courage have three players each.
- The roster features two 2024 NWSL Best XI First Team players in Jenna Nighswonger and Emily Sams, who was also the league’s Defender of the Year, and three 2024 NWSL Best XI Second Team selections in Naomi Girma, Tara McKeown and Hal Hershfelt.
- Of the six uncapped players who are all first-time call-ups to the USWNT – goalkeepers Angelina Anderson and Claudia Dickey, defenders Tara McKeown and Ryan Williams, midfielder Nealy Martin and forward Ella Stevens -- four have U.S. Youth National Team experience. For Martin and Williams, this will be their first National Team event at any age level. All six have distinguished themselves on NWSL pitches over the past year or more.
- Martin famously played in goal on two occasions for NJ/NY Gotham FC, the latter in the 2023 NWSL Championship Game when fellow 2025 January camper Mandy McGlynn was ejected at the very end of the match. Martin pulled on the GK jersey and helped hold the lead until the final whistle blew.
- Anderson was the starting goalkeeper on the USA’s 2018 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup Team, playing all 270 minutes of the tournament. Anderson and McGlynn were on the USA’s 2018 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Team in France, but neither saw minutes.
- The 2020 U-20 World Cup cycle came to an abrupt end due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but Dickey played in four matches at the 2020 Concacaf Women’s U-20 Championship to help the USA win the regional title.
- Forward Ella Stevens played for the USA at the U-17, U-19, U-20 and U-23 levels. She was on the team that won the 2015 Concacaf Women’s U-20 Championship and scored in that tournament against Haiti. Stevens scored seven goals in 2024 for NJ/NY Gotham FC, tied for second on the team with Rose Lavelle.
- McKeown also was a member of the USA’s 2018 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Team and played the full match against Paraguay. Emily Fox, Savannah DeMelo, Ashley Sanchez, Girma and Sophia Smith were also on that World Cup squad.
- DeMelo and Sanchez, both members of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Team, return to the roster. Sanchez last played for the USA on Oct. 20, 2024, vs. Argentina but before that hadn’t played for the USA since Oct. 29, 2023, against Colombia. DeMelo’s most recent cap also came at the end of 2023, against China PR on Dec. 2 of that year.
- The 26-player roster averages just 23 caps per player. There are only three players on the roster aged 30 or over – Crystal Dunn, Lynn Williams and Emily Sonnett – with the remainder of the roster in their 20s. Williams scored the game-winning goal in the USA’s final match of 2024, a 2-1 victory against the Netherlands in The Hague. It was the 21st goal of her international career.
- Six players on the roster earned their first USWNT caps in 2024: McGlynn, defenders Alyssa Malonson and Sams, midfielder Hershfelt and forwards Emma Sears and Ally Sentnor. Sears scored (and picked up an assist) in her first cap on Oct. 27, 2024 vs. Iceland.
- Like Alyssa Thompson did two years before, Sentnor made her debut in front of 76,000+ fans at packed Wembley Stadium in London. Sentnor’s debut came in USA’s second-to-last match of 2024 on Nov. 30.
- Portland Thorns FC forward Morgan Weaver returns to the roster for the first time since 2021. She earned her first two and thus far only caps on a trip to Australia to end that year. She missed part of the 2024 season due to injury but scored four goals for PTFC.
- Washington Spirit forward Ashley Hatch, who has 53 career NWSL regular season goals and 63 in all competitions, gets her first call-up since the end of 2023 when she last played for the USA on Dec. 5, 2023, against China PR. She scored seven goals (second on the team) with three assists for the Spirit in 2024.
