Sophia Smith Voted 2022 U.S. Soccer Female Player of the Year

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Portland Thorns star forward and United States Women’s National Team rising star Sophia Smith has just been voted the

2022 U.S. Soccer Female Player of the Year. Smith received 50.8% of the vote with Alex Morgan finishing in second with 18.4%, respectively.

She is the first black woman to win U.S. Soccer Female Player of the Year.

After being drafted #1 overall in 2020, Sophia Smith’s accolades continue to pile up.

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The FIFA Women's World Cup kicks off this week. The monthlong tournament will be hosted jointly by Australia

and New Zealand. The U.S. Women's National Team will once again enter the tournament with the world's No. 1 ranking and will be looking for a third straight World Cup victory.

In many ways, this World Cup looks to be a passing of the proverbial torch of leadership and stardom within Team USA. After years of leading the American women through international soccer domination, Megan Rapinoe announced recently she will be retiring and this will be her final World Cup. Rapinoe blazed a trail as both a star on the pitch and a social advocate off it, receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2022.

So with those large shoes soon needing to be filled, whom from Team USA can we look toward to carry the sport into the future for America? Consider the incredibly talented Sophia Smith.

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Sophia Smith honored Katie Meyer’s memory in the U.S. women’s national team’s World Cup opener on

Saturday, imitating her former college teammate’s iconic 2019 national championship celebration following her second goal.

After VAR confirmed Smith’s goal in first-half stoppage time, giving the USWNT a 2-0 lead over Vietnam, the forward motioned to her zipped her lips and threw away the key. It was a reference to Meyer, who used the same celebratory gesture after saving a penalty kick to help Stanford win the 2019 NCAA title. Meyer, a starting goalkeeper and team captain, died by suicide while still a student at Stanford in March 2022.

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