ATLANTA (May 20, 2025) – U.S. Women’s National Team head coach Emma Hayes has named the 24-player training camp roster for the upcoming matches against China PR at Allianz Field in St. Paul, Minn., on Saturday, May 31 (4:30 p.m. CT / 5:30 p.m. ET on TBS, HBO Max, Universo & Peacock in Spanish and on the radio on Westwood One Sports) and against Jamaica at Energizer Park in St. Louis on Tuesday, June 3 (7 p.m. CT / 8 p.m. ET on TNT, HBO Max, Universo & Peacock in Spanish and on the radio on Westwood One Sports). Hayes will name 23 players to suit up for each of the two matches.
The June 3 match will feature a special pre-game retirement celebration for St. Louis native and USWNT legend Becky Sauerbrunn with the first 2,000 fans through the gates receiving a Becky Sauerbrunn bobblehead.
U.S. Women’s National Team Roster by Position (Club; Caps/Goals)
May/June Matches vs. China PR & Jamaica
GOALKEEPERS (3): Claudia Dickey (Seattle Reign FC; 0) Mandy McGlynn (Utah Royals; 3), Phallon Tullis-Joyce (Manchester United, ENG; 1)
DEFENDERS (8): Kerry Abello (Orlando Pride; 0/0), Crystal Dunn (Paris Saint-Germain, FRA; 159/25), Emily Fox (Arsenal FC, ENG; 66/1), Naomi Girma (Chelsea FC, ENG; 44/2), Tara McKeown (Washington Spirit; 5/0), Avery Patterson (Houston Dash; 2/0), Emily Sams (Orlando Pride; 3/0), Emily Sonnett (Gotham FC; 107/2)
MIDFIELDERS (6): Sam Coffey (Portland Thorns FC; 33/1), Lindsey Heaps (OL Lyonnes, FRA; 165/37), Claire Hutton (Kansas City Current; 2/0), Lo’eau LaBonta (Kansas City Current; 0/0), Olivia Moultrie (Portland Thorns FC; 5/2), Lily Yohannes (Ajax, NED; 6/1)
FORWARDS (7): Lynn Biyendolo (Seattle Reign FC; 78/22), Michelle Cooper (Kansas City Current; 4/1), Catarina Macario (Chelsea FC, ENG; 23/10), Emma Sears (Racing Louisville; 4/1), Ally Sentnor (Utah Royals; 7/2), Alyssa Thompson (Angel City FC; 17/1), Gisele Thompson (Angel City FC; 3/0)
“Everyone always earns their call-ups but there are some much-deserved call-ups in this camp for players who have shown consistency in league play,” said Hayes. “We have two different types of opponents ahead of us, so we’ll have to be creative in breaking down those teams in different ways. Now that everyone has settled into a rhythm with their clubs, or is coming right off their European seasons, our players are at a good level. As has been one of our focuses this year, this camp and the following camp are going to be two amazing opportunities to develop squad depth.”
The roster features seven different players from the USWNT roster that faced Brazil in two matches in early April, headlined by the return of defender Naomi Girma, who has not featured for the USA in 2025 due to injuries but is back to fitness after helping Chelsea FC win the Women’s Super League title and FA Cup in England.
Forward Lynn Biyendolo brings her 78 caps and 22 goals back to the roster after missing the April games. Nineteen-year-old Portland Thorns FC midfielder Olivia Moultrie, who has not played for the USA since last October against Iceland, also makes a return. She also played for the USA in early March of 2024 at the Concacaf W Gold Cup, a tournament in which she scored her first two WNT goals.
In addition, Hayes continues to give chances to uncapped players, awarding first-ever senior WNT call-ups to Orlando Pride defender Kerry Abello and Kansas City Current veteran midfielder Lo’eau LaBonta. Abello is a natural left-footer who started 25 games in 2024 and was a key player on the Pride’s 2024 NWSL title team. If LaBonta, 32, the Current captain and midfield anchor, plays in St. Paul or St. Louis, she will become the oldest player to debut for the USWNT program in its 40-year history. The third uncapped player on the roster is Seattle Reign goalkeeper Claudia Dickey.
Abello and LaBonta, who has three goals this season for the first place Current, are the 22nd and 23rd first-time call-ups under Hayes. Four additional players earned first-time call-ups under former interim head coach Twila Kilgore after Hayes was hired in November of 2023.
Four of the seven forwards on the roster are 22 years old or younger, and two – Ally Sentnor and Michelle Cooper – scored their first USWNT goals during the SheBelieves Cup earlier this year. Sentnor, the 2024 U.S. Soccer Young Female Player of the Year, scored twice in that tournament – against Colombia and Japan – and Cooper tallied against Australia on a goal set up by Sentnor. Alyssa Thompson has four goals and two assists so far for Angel City while her younger sister Gisele, whose previous call-ups have been at outside back, will get a run as a winger during this camp. Racing Louisville forward Emma Sears also has four goals this season.
The roster includes 17 players from the NWSL and seven who are currently playing their professional club soccer in Europe: two in France, four in England and one, Lily Yohannes, in the Netherlands. The Kansas City Current has three players on the roster while the Utah Royals, Seattle Reign FC, Angel City FC, Portland Thorns FC and the Orlando Pride all have two. Chelsea FC also has two.
Additional Notes:
- The average age of the 24-player roster is 25.4. The average number of caps per player on this roster is 30.7, which is elevated by the three players with 100-plus caps, team captain Lindsey Heaps with 165, Crystal Dunn with 159 and Emily Sonnett with 107. Fifteen players on the roster (62%) have 10 or less caps.
- Lo’eau LaBonta is the second player of Hawaiian heritage to earn a USWNT call-up. The first was Natasha Kai, who earned 67 caps while scoring 24 goals between 2006-2009, and won an Olympic gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
- Manchester United goalkeeper Phallon Tullis-Joyce, who first trained with the USA at the end of last year during the trip to England and the Netherlands, returns to the roster after earning her first cap against Brazil on April 5 in a 2-0 shutout. Tullis-Joyce was a key part in helping Manchester United reach the UEFA Women’s Champions League next season and 2025 Women’s FA Cup Final that was contested at Wembley Stadium last Sunday, but the Reds Devils fell 3-0 to Naomi Girma and Catarina Macario’s Chelsea FC, which clinched the treble for USWNT head coach Emma Hayes’ former team.
- Macario, who entered the FA Cup Final in the 62nd minute, scored the second and clinching goal on a fantastic header in the 84th minute. It was her 11th goal of the season. She became the third American women to score in an FA Cup Final along with Samantha Mewis (2020) and Carli Lloyd (2017), both of whom scored for Manchester City.
- Seattle Reign goalkeeper Claudia Dickey makes her first USWNT game roster after attending the USA’s January training camp earlier this year. The goalkeeper corps is rounded out by Utah Royals netminder Mandy McGlynn, who earned her third cap in the 2-1 loss to Brazil on April 8.
- Emily Fox will come into camp straight off participating in the 2025 UEFA Women’s Champions League Final as Arsenal FC faces Barcelona FC on May 24 in Lisbon. If she wins, she and Arsenal teammate Jenna Nighswonger will become the sixth and seventh American females to win a UEFA Champions League title.
- U.S. captain Lindsey Heaps will come into camp after helping Olympique Lyon – now the newly dubbed OL Lyonnes -- win the French Première Ligue tile with a 3-0 victory over Crystal Dunn’s and Korbin Albert’s Paris Saint-Germain last Friday. It was Horan’s fourth league title – and fourth consecutive -- with Lyon. Heaps assisted on the game-winning goal.
- The 25-year-old Kerry Abello, a four-year NWSL veteran and former Penn State star, has extensive experience with the USA’s Youth National Teams. She earned her first call-up at the U-14 level in 2013 and also earned call-ups to the Under-15s (2014), Under-17s (2015), Under-18s (in 2016 and 2017) and Under-19s (in 2017). She also attended a U.S. U-23 WNT camp during her rookie season in 2022, facing India and Sweden. She scored in the 3-0 win over Sweden.
- Abello has 10 combined U.S. Youth National Team caps (one for the U-17s, four for the U-18s, three for the U-19s and two for the U-23s).
- LaBonta, an 11-year NWSL veteran with four different clubs who hails from Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., earned her first U.S. Soccer call-up at the U-14 level in 2007. She also played with the U.S. U-15 GNT, but her most recent call-up was during her time at Stanford, where she helped the Cardinal to the 2011 NCAA title, when she played with the U.S. U-23 WNT.
- There will be four teenagers in training camp in Lily Yohannes (17) and Olivia Moultrie, Claire Hutton and Gisele Thompson, all 19. There are 15 players on the roster in their 20s and five in their 30s.
