The U.S. Women’s National Team started 2026 in the sunshine of California with its annual January training camp and a deluge of goals. The team trained for a week at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. before meeting Paraguay on Jan. 24, a 6-0 win behind a brace from Ally Sentnor and goals from debutante Reilyn Turner, first-time captain Trinity Rodman, the NWSL’s 2025 leading American scorer Emma Sears, along with a Paraguay own goal. Now the U.S. looks to the Tuesday, Jan. 27 match vs. Chile at Harder Stadium in Santa Barbara, Calif. (7 p.m. PT / 10 p.m. ET on TBS and HBO Max in English, Universo and Peacock in Spanish, and on the radio in English on Westwood One and in Spanish on Futbol de Primera). The most recent meeting between the USA and Chile was at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup during group play, a 3-0 victory for the USA. This will be the first full international match for the USWNT at Harder Stadium, the first-ever USWNT full international on the Central Coast of California, and it will close the first camp of the USWNT’s 41st year of competition.
U.S. WOMEN’S NATIONAL TEAM ROSTER BY POSITION (CLUB; CAPS/GOALS)
2026 January Training Camp Roster
GOALKEEPERS (3): Claudia Dickey (Seattle Reign FC; 6) Mandy McGlynn (Utah Royals; 5), Jordan Silkowitz (Bay FC; 0)
DEFENDERS (8): Jordyn Bugg (Seattle Reign FC; 5/0), Ayo Oke (Denver Summit; 0/0), Izzy Rodriguez (Kansas City Current; 2/1), Tara Rudd (Washington Spirit; 10/0), Emily Sams (Angel City FC; 8/0), Gisele Thompson (Angel City FC; 5/0), Kennedy Wesley (San Diego Wave FC; 3/0), Kate Wiesner (Washington Spirit; 2/0)
MIDFIELDERS (8): Croix Bethune (Washington Spirit; 6/0), Hal Hershfelt (Washington Spirit; 4/0), Claire Hutton (Kansas City Current; 12/1), Riley Jackson (North Carolina Courage; 0/0), Lo’eau LaBonta (Kansas City Current; 5/0), Sally Menti (Seattle Reign FC; 1/0), Sam Meza (Seattle Reign FC; 2/0), Olivia Moultrie (Portland Thorns FC; 12/5)
FORWARDS (7): Maddie Dahlien (Seattle Reign FC; 1/0), Jameese Joseph (Chicago Stars FC; 1/0), Trinity Rodman (Washington Spirit; 48/12), Yazmeen Ryan (Houston Dash; 15/2), Emma Sears (Racing Louisville FC; 13/5), Ally Sentnor (Kansas City Current; 14/6), Reilyn Turner (Portland Thorns FC; 1/1)
30 DEBUTS IN 31 GAMES: U.S. head coach Emma Hayes has given 30 players their international debuts since June of 2024. In matches when at least one player debuted, the U.S. is 18W-0L-1D, including Hayes’ first three matches at the helm, where three players made their debuts and the USWNT won all three matches. At the end of 2025, Hayes had given 27 debuts in 29 matches. To open 2026, she gave three players their debut in the first match of the year: forward Reilyn Turner, forward Maddie Dahlien and midfielder Sally Menti.
THE DEBUTANTES: Hayes even gave a first cap to two players who did not get a first call-up under her, as Lily Yohannes earned her first call-up under former interim head coach Twila Kilgore but did not see action in any matches.Defender Eva Gaetino is the other. The 30 players who have earned their first caps under Hayes are: Sam Staab, Yohannes, Croix Bethune, Yazmeen Ryan, Hal Hershfelt, Emily Sams, Emma Sears, Mandy McGlynn, Alyssa Malonson, Gaetino, Ally Sentnor, Tara McKeown (now Rudd), Michelle Cooper, Gisele Thompson, Claire Hutton, Phallon Tullis-Joyce, Avery Patterson, Lo'eau LaBonta, Kerry Abello, Claudia Dickey, Lilly Reale, Jordyn Bugg, Sam Meza, Izzy Rodriguez, Kennedy Wesley, Jameese Joseph, Kate Wiesner, Reilyn Turner, Sally Menti and Maddie Dahlien. Turner started and scored in her debut, becoming the 25th player to accomplish that feat in WNT history.
THE POOL NARROWS: This camp will be the last time in 2026 that first cap number goes up significantly as Riley Jackson, Ayo Oke and Jordan Silkowitz are still looking to make their international debuts. For the remainder of the camps/matches in 2026, Hayes will be narrowing down the pool to more consistent roster in preparation for World Cup qualifying.
34 YEARS LATER, THE USWNT RETURNS TO HARDER STADIUM: The USA’s match against Chile on Jan. 27 at Harder Stadium will be the first-ever full-international match for the USWNT on the Central Coast of California and just the second-ever in California played below the San Francisco-Bay Area and above Los Angeles (The USWNT played a match in Fresno in 1998). It will, however, not be the first time the USWNT has played at Harder Stadium. In 1991, based on an invitation from then UCSB head women’s soccer coach Tad Bobak to then USWNT head coach Anson Dorrance (the two had worked together in the early years of women’s soccer), Dorrance brought the USWNT to Santa Barbara for a training camp just weeks before the team departed for the 1991 FIFA Women’s World Cup, which the USA would famously win to put the first star above its crest. The training camp also featured two matches, against the USCB college team on Saturday, Oct. 19 and on Sunday, Oct. 20 against a team of West Coast All-Stars, promoted matches that would be unheard of nowadays. In fact, the USWNT hasn’t played a college team – even in a scrimmage– since. The USA, filled with the stars that would later become household names – Michelle Akers, UCSB alumna Carin Jennings, Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy, et al, beat UCSB – then a top-five ranked team in the country, by a 10-0 score and then downed the West Coast All-Stars, 6-1. Now, 34 years later, the USWNT returns to Harder Stadium, nickname “Soccer Heaven” for the success of the UCSB Men’s Soccer Team and the massive crowds it draws for local derbies, primarily against UCLA and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
USWNT TEAM & ROSTER NOTES
- Since the start of 2020, the USWNT has played 76 matches in the United States and 32 outside the country. The USA is 65W-5L-6D in domestic matches and has outscored the opposition 236-25 (+211) at home. Outside the United States, the USWNT is 20W-4L-8D with a 62-20 goal margin (+42).
- Since its inception in 1985, the USWNT has compiled a record of 606 wins, 75 losses and 91 ties. Over the history of the program, the USA has gone 360W-25L-37D (90% winning percentage) at home, 59W-20L-16D away (71%) and 187W-30L-38D (81%) on neutral ground. The USA’s overall winning percentage of 84% is the best all-time of any international sports team in history. Of the USA’s 75 losses, 12 (16%) came at the Algarve Cup in Portugal, long one of the world’s most competitive tournaments but one in which the USA no longer competes.
- Since the end of the 2015 World Cup, the USA has played 202 matches with a 165W-14L-23D record.
- So far in 2026, of the USA’s combined six goals and five assists, 73% involved a player under 25.
- Goals by players under 25: Two from 21-year-old Ally Sentnor, one each from 23-year-olds Reilyn Turner and Trinity Rodman, and 24-year-old Emma Sears
- Assists by players under 25: One each from 24-year-old Croix Bethune, and 20-year-olds Olivia Moultrie and Gisele Thompson
- In 2025, of the USA’s combined 41 goals and 28 assists this year, 51% involved a player under 25.
- Thirty-six of the USA’s 50 goals in 2024 (68%) were scored or assisted by a player under 25.
- Trinity Rodman is the leading scorer on this roster with 12 career goals. Ally Sentnor is next with six goals in 14 caps. No one else has more than five, which is the career total for both Emma Sears and Olivia. Moultrie.
- Sixteen players made their USWNT debuts in 2025 which is the most U.S. debuts in a calendar year since the first year of the program (1985). Eleven players debuted for the USWNT in 2024, which was the most in a calendar year since 2001, when 15 players – including eventual World Cup champions Abby Wambach and Lori Chalupny – earned their first caps. Three have debuted for the U.S. in 2026.
- The roster for this camp features exclusively NWSL Players.
- The average caps per player on this roster heading into the Jan. 24 Paraguay match was just 6.3. There were six uncapped players on the roster (there are now three left). Excluding the two players on this roster who have played for the USA in a senior world championship event – Trinity Rodman and Croix Bethune - the U.S. roster averaged just 4.6 caps per player ahead of camp.
- There are three players on the roster who have senior world championship experience, Trinity Rodman has the most, having competed in the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup and scored three goals with one assist at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The other two are Emily Sams and Croix Bethune who made the 2024 Olympic roster but only played in one (Bethune) or zero (Sams) matches.
- The average age of this 26-player training camp roster is 24.1. The average age for the end-of-the-year matches against Italy was 24.8. The average age for the roster for the October 2025 matches was 24.6 and the roster for the 2025 summer matches against Ireland and Canada in June/July had an average age of 24.5.
- Thirty-eight different players started a match for the USWNT in 2025, the second most in a single calendar year in team history (38 in 2000, 41 in 2001). That includes 25 different players who were 25 years old or younger at the time of at least one of their starts.
- Forty-four players were capped in 2025, the most in a calendar year in USWNT history.
- The three goalkeepers in camp have a total of 11 career caps. Claudia Dickey of Seattle Reign FC has six after starting the last four matches while Mandy McGlynn of the Utah Royals has five. Jordan Silkowitz, who earned her second call-up, is one of the four uncapped players in camp.
- There is just one teenager in training camp in Jordyn Bugg (who turns 20 in August) as Claire Hutton turns 20 on Jan. 11, 2006. Bugg missed the Jan. 24 match due to illness.
- There are 23 players on the roster in their 20s and just one in her 30s: Lo'eau LaBonta, 32, who is the oldest player ever to debut for the USWNT and oldest player ever to start a game.
- Jan. 24’s Starting XI averaged 9.6 caps entering the match – the fewest average caps for a starting lineup in 25 years. The average caps for that starting lineup vs. Paraguay was 55% lower than the previous lowest average caps for a Starting XI since 2001 which came against New Zealand on Oct. 29, 2025, with 17.3 caps heading into the match.
IN FOCUS: CHILE
FIFA World Ranking: 47
World Cup Appearances: 2019
Best World Cup Finish: Group Stage
Record vs. USA: 0W-3L-0D (GF: 0; GA: 10)
Head Coach: Herminio Barrios (PAR)
CHILE WOMEN’S NATIONAL TEAM ROSTER BY POSITION
Goalkeepers (2): 12-Oriana Cristancho (Universidad de Chile), 1-Ryann Torrero (Colo-Colo)
Defenders (8): 14-Catalina Arias (Colo-Colo), 21-Rosario Balmeceda (Colo-Colo), 18-Gabriela Cardenas (Universidad de Chile), 5-Anais Cifuentes (Colo-Colo), 13-Karen Fuentes (Universidad de Chile), 4-Mariana Morales (Universidad de Chile), 2-Michelle Olivares (Colo-Colo), 3-Fernanda Ramiriz (Universidad Católica)
Midfielders (6): 10-Yanara Aedo (Colo-Colo), 17-Amparo Abarca (Universidad Católica), 6-Yastin Jimenez (Colo-Colo), 11-Yessenia Lopez (Colo-Colo), 19-Valentina Peña (Universidad Católica), 16-Gisela Pino (Universidad de Chile)
Forwards (5): 15-Amber Figueroa (Universidad Católica), 7-Vaitiare Pardo (Universidad Católica), 9-Mary Valencia (Colo-Colo), 8-Adriana Moreno (Coquimbo Unido), 20-Francisca Vargas (Universidad de Chile)
USA VS. CHILE SERIES
- This will be just the fourth all-time meeting between the two countries.
- The first two were in Ohio, a set of friendlies the U.S. won in 2018 that the USA won 3-0 and 4-0 on Aug. 31 and Sept 4, respectively.
- The third match was in the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup group stage. Chile were debutantes to the tournament and drew a tough group including the U.S., Sweden and Thailand. Chile fell to the U.S. and Sweden but defeated Thailand 2-0. The U.S. would go on to win the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Carli Lloyd scored twice and Julie Ertz scored once.
CHILE FAST FACTS
- Chile is ranked 47th in the world currently.
- Chile have made only one FIFA Women’s World Cup appearance, that coming in 2019 and it exited in the group stage but put in a decent performance for a first World Cup, losing to the USA and Sweden (2-0), but beat Thailand, 2-0, for its first-ever World Cup points. Chile’s goalkeeper, Christiane Endler, was one of the best in the world at that time. Endler plays for OL Lyonnes but is retired from international play.
- Chile has made 10 Copa América Femenina appearances, the first in 1991. Their best results came in 1991 and 2018, when Chile finished as runners-up.
- Chile earned the silver medal at the 2023 Pan American Games and at the 2014 South American Games.
- Chile defeated Cameroon in the playoff to earn a spot at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics but also did not leave the group stage there, having to face Great Britain, Canada and the hosts, Japan.
- The entire roster plays for four clubs within Chile, with nine players at Colo-Colo, six for Universidad de Chile and five play for Universidad Católica.
- Forward Adriana Moreno is the only player who is the only one from her club, Coquimbo Unido in Chile’s First Division
- Goalkeeper Ryann Torrero was born in the USA and played college soccer in the United States. She played for the University of Wyoming before transferring to Campbell University. She has also been an assistant coach at Pepperdine in Southern California.
- In 2018, Torerro had a brief stint with the Chicago Red Stars.
