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American soccer player (born 2002) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emmie Allen (born October 25, 2002) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for Bay FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). She played college soccer for the North Carolina Tar Heels.
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | [1] | October 25, 2002||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Bay FC | ||
Number | 32 | ||
College career | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2021–2023 | North Carolina | 47 | (0) |
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2024– | Bay FC | 0 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Allen grew up in High Point, North Carolina, the younger of two children born to Laura and Scott Allen.[2] She began playing soccer at a young age.[3] She came from a University of North Carolina family and attended soccer camps there while in middle school.[3] She played soccer and basketball for High Point Christian Academy in eighth grade.[4] She began online schooling the next year while playing for the NC Courage Academy club team.[4] She committed to North Carolina as a ninth grader.[3]
After redshirting her freshman year, Allen became North Carolina's starting goalkeeper at the start of the 2022 season.[2][5] She alternated playing halves with another keeper in her first six games.[2][6] She saved two penalty kicks in her first shootout in college in the semifinals of the 2022 ACC tournament.[7] In the 2022 NCAA tournament, she made six saves to shut out Notre Dame in the quarterfinals and a career-high nine saves against Florida State in the semifinals.[8][9] In the 2022 championship game against UCLA, she recorded eight saves, but with seconds remaining she was shoved to the ground on a corner kick converted by the Bruins; the play was not called a foul, and North Carolina lost in overtime.[3][10][11] She totaled 70 saves and 8 shutouts on the season.[2]
Before her 2023 season, Allen recovered from a spring knee injury and played with the Courage's amateur USL W League side in the summer.[3][4] She recorded 46 saves and 8 shutouts as a redshirt sophomore, including two shutouts in the 2023 NCAA tournament.[2] She tied her career high with nine saves in the team's NCAA quarterfinal loss to BYU.[2][12]
After going undrafted in the 2024 NWSL Draft, Allen trained with Bay FC in the 2024 preseason and was signed to a one-year contract with a one-year option, becoming the third option behind Lysianne Proulx and Katelyn Rowland.[13][14] She made her professional debut on July 20, 2024, as the starting keeper in a 3–1 defeat to San Diego Wave FC in the first group stage game of the 2024 NWSL x Liga MX Femenil Summer Cup.[15]
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