Roster announcement for January Camp for the U.S. Women’s National Team

Emma Hayes announces her selection for the January Camp

Fayetteville, GA- The U.S. Women’s National Team is preparing to have its January camp and play against two tough opponents from the Confederation of CONMEBOL, as they will take on Paraguay and Chile in Southern California. Head Coach Emma Hayes will use this camp to give players from the NWSL a chance to see what they bring before their next international window.

U.S. Women’s Roster

GOALKEEPERS:

CLAUDIA DICKEY: SEATTLE REIGN
MANDY McGLYNN: UTAH ROYALS
JORDAN SILKOWITZ: BAYFC

DEFENDERS:

JORDYN BUGG: SEATTLE REIGN
AVERY PATTERSON: HOUSTON DASH
IZZY RODRIGUEZ: KC CURRENT
TARA RUDD: WASHINGTON SPIRIT
EMILY SAMS: ORLANDO PRIDE
GISELE THOMPSON: ANGEL CITY FC
KENNEDY WESLEY SAN DIEGO WAVEFC
KATE WIESNER: WASHINGTON SPIRIT

MIDFIELDERS:

CROIX BETHUNE: WASHINGTON SPIRIT
HAL HERSCHFELT: WASHINGTON SPIRIT
CLAIRE HUTTON: KC CURRENT
RILEY JACKSON: NORTH CAROLINA COURAGE
LO’EAU LaBONTA: KC CURRENT
SALLY MENTI: SEATTLE REIGN
SAM MEZA: SEATTLE REIGN
OLIVIA MOULTRIE: PORTLAND THORNS

FORWARDS:

MADDIE DAHLIEN: SEATTLE REIGN
JAMEESE JOSEPH: CHICAGO STARS FC
TRINITY RODMAN: UNATTACHED
YAZMEEN RYAN: HOUSTON DASH
EMMA SEARS: RACING LOUISVILLE
ALLY SENTNOR: KC CURRENT
REILYN TURNER: PORTLAND THORNS

Trinity Rodman gets a call-up

After suffering an injury during the back end of her season with the Washington Spirit, but still came back for the final, Trinity Rodman was given a call-up by head coach Emma Hayes, who wants to see her in action and assess her readiness for the National Team. Currently, she is a free agent as her contract with the Washington Spirit ended last year.

“So I think for Trin to come back into the fold now, the starting point is the same for everyone. I know she has been working hard in the offseason just to keep developing her resiliency and her robustness. And though I haven’t spoken to her in the last couple of weeks, we did exchange a text the other day, which was you haven’t you haven’t clicked yes to your flight.

So get your flight booked. And she said. Don’t worry, I will be there. So I’m excited about that. I think with regards to the free agency piece, we haven’t discussed that still ongoing. And I think that when Trin has time to have something to say on that, then she will when the time’s right for that. But as of the moment, I don’t have any new updates on it,” said Hayes

More prospects in this January Camp than in the last one

For Hayes, she’s using this camp to bring in more possible players for the National Team down the road and use it as a futures tryout. While still having veterans, Hayes is looking to see who she can use when her regulars are out do to injury or not available on call-ups.

“Well, as I always say, I can only pick the players that are available. So with no European-based players, no Gotham-based players, I think this is really the last window in preparation for 27, where we will see the opportunities for so many new players. I’m not saying there won’t be somebody that is in our pool of players that won’t push through for 27, but I feel pretty clear about the pool of players for that.

And I think she believes it will be much, much closer, depending on how fit and well and healthy everyone is, than this one. But what a great opportunity I get the chance to see from particular if I talk so much about the 20 threes and when I speak with Heather Daish about the impact Riley Jackson and Maddie Darlene had in camp for her and how consistent their performances have been, or how good Ryland Turner’s back end of last season was.

And yes, ordinarily, if we had the European-based players or Gotham players, because we might not see these players, but that’s the opportunity that presents itself. So I’m looking forward to that part. I also think you can see where we can have consistency. We will do that. Everybody is very clear on what their role is positionally.

Maybe we will certainly start to lean into what their roles become as the year pans out and we get closer to qualification. The January camp is an opportunity to actually look at players who might have an impact on some. Some might push in at 27, but actually 28.

I still have to prepare for that as well as the World Cup, and there will be ample playing time for everybody because of the stage of the season. The realities are in game one, at least five players have to play 90 minutes, but I can make 6 changes. Am I going to make 6 changes in both games, 1000% because of the time of year? So what a great opportunity for everyone in our squad to get a look in that moment.

And I will definitely be using a lot of the good references from last year’s future camps and the impact that they had for those players. I think that we might be sitting here next year talking about the, I don’t know the impact it had for Maddie and Riley in a year’s time. And who knows, they may be knocking on the door for the World Cup.”

Picking a future Captain for the National Team

With the number of veterans that will be missing in this camp, it’s up to Emma Hayes to find players who could be a part of the future in those roles to either wear the armband or to be a captain on the pitch to help facilitate her tactics while she is inside the technical area. And during training as well.

“I think that this is going to be a team with an absence of so much leadership and so much seniority. But you know, I talk a lot about succession planning. Well, what a great opportunity to start to develop the next generation of leaders. And for me, I think that that is something that’s going to be important. I haven’t decided on who the leader will be because obviously, they’ve got to get into camp.

They’ve got to see if they’re available for what playing time, but I would absolutely relish the opportunity to start developing some that if they don’t already sit outside of the leadership group. They were going to be tomorrow’s leaders. And I am adamant that the experience is not just this camp, but almost all of them going to give us is not always about just a core group of 24 players that are competing for 27.

Like we want to compete, win the Olympics. So, can you imagine the leadership responsibilities that someone like Claire Hutton’s going to get from a camp like this? Because there’s she’s going to be one of the more considered, one of the more experienced midfielders, at least in our group right now, even at her tender age. Same with Trinity Rodman.

Trinity Rodman’s been around, you know, a period of time, though she’s been absent from us; she’s still very connected, but an experienced player relative to, you know, the cumulative experience in the group. So my job is to develop more leaders. I look forward to that one in this camp. And I know that that will bear fruit. If it’s not for 27, it will be for 28, and it will be for 31.

The matches

The matches will be played in two different locations. On Saturday, January 24th, their first opponent will be Paraguay at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California, at 5:30 PM Eastern – 2:30 PM Pacific, then they will move on to Santa Barbara to face Chile on Tuesday, January 27th, at Harder Stadium on the campus of UC Santa Barbara at 10 PM Eastern – 7 PM Pacific. Both matches will be on English-language TNT Sports and Spanish-language NBC’s Universo and streaming on both HBO Max & Peacock.

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