Doug McIntyre
Football journalist
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Utah Royals ahead Ally Sentnor has been voted the 2024 U.S. Soccer Young Player of the Year, it was introduced Friday.
The 20-year-old ahead, who made her senior debut in November within the USWNT’s goalless draw in opposition to England, captained the Americans to 3rd place on the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Colombia, the place she scored three targets. targets and gained the Bronze Ball because the third greatest participant of the match.
The Hanson, Massachusetts native was additionally the primary decide within the NWSL draft after a stellar profession on the University of North Carolina, and was nominated for the league’s Rookie of the Year award.
Sentnor, who’s coaching with the USWNT this week, stated in US Soccer’s press launch that she is “grateful and humbled.”
“Seeing the listing of gamers who’ve gained this earlier than,” he added, “reveals me the alternatives which are forward of us.”
Sentnor joins a who’s who of all-time USWNT greats who’ve taken residence the award. Seven members of the U.S. group that gained a program-record fifth Olympic gold medal ultimately summer time’s Games in Paris have already obtained the award, together with captain Lindsey Horan, star defender Naomi Girma and the offensive line “Triple Espresso” by Trinity Rodman, Sophia Smith and Mallory Swanson.
Sentnor earned her second senior cap in December, profitable 2-1 within the Netherlands in opposition to the hosts. He scored three targets and added 4 assists in 21 video games throughout his first skilled season with the Royals. Sentnor additionally turned the ninth UNC alumnus to say the Young Player of the Year award. Former Tar Heel and present US Soccer President Cindy Parlow Cone was the inaugural winner, in 1998.
Sentnor obtained almost 56% of the votes, with votes solid by followers, nationwide group coaches and gamers, members of the US Soccer board of administrators and Athletes’ Council, NWSL coaches and “choose members and directors of the media,” in line with US Soccer. Current Kansas City midfielder Claire Hutton completed second.
Sentnor was amongst 26 gamers referred to as up Jan. 7 by USWNT coach Emma Hayes for America’s first coaching camp of 2025. The group is presently coaching in Fort Lauderdale forward of subsequent month’s SheBeleives Cup.
Doug McIntyre is a soccer author for FOX Sports who has lined the United States males’s and girls’s nationwide groups on the FIFA World Cup on 5 continents. Follow him to @ByDougMcIntyre.
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