EMMA HAYES NAMES 24 PLAYERS TO THE 2025 FUTURES CAMP
WHICH WILL RUN CONCURRENTLY WITH USWNT TRAINING CAMP IN LOS ANGELES
Roster Features 14 Professional Players and 10 College Players;
17 Players Have Experience in FIFA Youth Women’s World Cups
CHICAGO (Jan. 8, 2025) – U.S. Women’s National Team head coach Emma Hayes has named 24 players to the 2025 Futures Camp which will feature up-and-coming USWNT prospects. The training camp will take place from January 14-21 at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. and is being held concurrently with the USWNT training camp running at the same time.
The roster features 14 professional players – 13 from the NWSL and one from the USL Super League – with 12 who played college soccer last season, including two players from the University of North Carolina’s 2024 NCAA title team, forwards Maddie Dahlien and 2024 MAC Hermann Trophy winner Kate Faasse. Goalkeeper Mia Justus (Utah Royals) and defender Lilly Reale (NJ/NY Gotham FC) have recently signed with NWSL clubs to play their rookie years in 2025.
The roster features players from six different birth years – 2002 through 2007 – with all the players currently age-eligible for the USA’s Under-23 Women’s National Team. Fifteen of the players have represented the USA in the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup, 10 of them at the 2024 edition in Colombia in which the USA finished third and five at the 2022 tournament which was held in Costa Rica. One player, midfielder Ainsley McCammon, played for the USA at the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in the Dominican Republic where the USA also finished third. She was born in 2007 and is the youngest player on the roster.
Hayes and her U.S. National Team coaching staff, along with all of the USA’s Youth National Team head coaches, will come together to run the training sessions at the Futures Camp.
U.S. Roster by Position – 2025 Futures Camp
GOALKEEPERS (3): Jordan Brown (Georgia; Las Vegas, Nev.), Mia Justus (Utah Royals; Lakewood, Ohio), Neeku Purcell (Brooklyn FC; Seattle, Wash.)
DEFENDERS (7): Jordyn Bugg (Seattle Reign FC; El Cajon, Calif.), Heather Gilchrist (Florida State; Boulder, Colo.), Savy King (Bay FC; West Hills, Calif.), Emily Mason (Rutgers; Flemington, N.J.), Makenna Morris (Washington Spirit; Germantown, Md.), Lilly Reale (NJ/NY Gotham FC; Hingham, Mass.), Gisele Thompson (Angel City FC; Studio City, Calif.)
MIDFIELDERS (6): Taylor Huff (Florida State; Mansfield, Ohio), Claire Hutton (Kansas City Current; Bethlehem, N.Y.), Riley Jackson (North Carolina Courage; Roswell, Ga.), Ainsley McCammon (Seattle Reign FC; Bedford, Texas), Yuna McCormack (Florida State; Mill Valley, Calif.), Lexi Missimo (Texas; Southlake, Texas)
FORWARDS (8): Michelle Cooper (Kansas City Current; Clarkston, Mich.), Maddie Dahlien (UNC; Edina, Minn.), Jordynn Dudley (Florida State; Milton, Ga.), Kate Faasse (UNC; Phoenix, Ariz.), Jameese Joseph (Chicago Stars; Beltsville, Md.), Avery Patterson (Houston Dash; Jacksonville, Fla.), Pietra Tordin (Princeton; Miami, Fla.), Reilyn Turner (Portland Thorns FC; Aliso Viejo, Calif.)
“This is an exciting group of young players who have shown their talents on various levels in the United States and there were certainly others deserving of a call-up to this camp,” said Hayes. “To bring them all together to compete in our first Futures Camp is an exciting step for the evolution of the U.S. Women’s National Team program and a great opportunity for them to show they have the qualities to play for the senior team. It’s a significant jump from college to the pro game and an even bigger jump to the elite international level, but we will be patient with all these players as we understand the process and want to help all of them reach their maximum potential.”
The professional players on this roster come from 11 different NWSL clubs with goalkeeper Neeku Purcell currently playing for Brooklyn FC, which sits at the top of the standings in the new USL Super League.
Every player on the roster except for 5-foot-11 Georgia Bulldogs goalkeeper Jordan Brown has prior experience playing and/or training with the U.S. Youth National Teams.
Additional Notes:
- Twenty of the players on the roster have caps at the U-20 international level and two have caps at the U-17 level. The only players not capped at the youth international levels are goalkeeper Jordan Brown and forward Kate Faasse.
- The roster features eight players born in 2002, three born in 2003, seven born in 2004, three born in 2005, two born in 2006 and one born in 2007.
- The players on the roster who were a part of the USA’s bronze medal-winning team at the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup are defenders Jordyn Bugg, Heather Gilchrist, Savy King and Gisele Thompson, midfielders Claire Hutton, Yuna McCormack, Riley Jackson and forwards Maddie Dahlien, Jordynn Dudley and Pietra Tordin.
- Tordin scored four times in the World Cup, which included a hat trick against Paraguay, while Dahlien, Dudley and McCormack had two goals each.
- Dahlien also created the Netherlands own goal that won the Third-Place Match and set up the dramatic equalizer against Germany in the quarterfinal that capped a legendary comeback in which the USA scored in the 97th and 98th minutes to tie the match, then won in penalty kicks after overtime.
- Goalkeepers Mia Justus and Neeku Purcell, defenders Emily Mason and Lilly Reale and forward Michelle Cooper all played in the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica. Cooper, who captained that team, had one goal in the tournament.
- Reale, a UCLA senior, was named the Big Ten Defender of the Year in 2024, the Bruins’ first year in the conference.
- Midfielder Ainsley McCammon was one of the standout players on the U.S. team that raced to a third-place finish at the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in the Dominican Republic. McCammon was a co-captain and played every minute of the tournament while scoring once, that goal coming in the 3-0 victory over England in the Third-Place Match.
- McCammon and Bugg both made their NWSL debuts for the Seattle Reign FC at the end of the 2024 season.
- 2024 MAC Hermann Trophy winner Faasse scored a remarkable 20 goals as a junior after scoring just four over her freshman and sophomore seasons.
- Despite missing games due to her World Cup commitments, Dahlien started 17 of the 18 games she played for the Tar Heels and scored two goals and a team-leading seven assists. Dahlien is a former Minnesota state track champion in the 100M and 200M sprints.
- All the NWSL players on the roster, aside from the recent signings, played rookie seasons in 2024 except for Cooper, who was in her second year with the Current. She scored three goals in each of her first two pro seasons.
- Forward Jameese Joseph also scored three times for the Chicago Red Stars in 2024. Forward Reilyn Turner scored five times in 2024 in a season that started with Racing Louisville FC (four goals) and ended with Portland Thorns FC (one goal).
- Hutton played the most minutes of any of the NWSL rookies in this camp, logging 1,827 in 24 matches for the Current.
- King, who was a rock at outside back for the U.S. U-20s in the 2024 WWC, played 1,109 minutes for Bay FC during her rookie year.
- Midfielder Lexi Missimo finished up a decorated career at Texas in the Fall. She played in 90 matches for the Longhorns, starting 89, and scored 56 goals with 66 assists, finishing as UT’s all-time leader in both categories.
- Angel City FC’s Gisele Thompson is the only player on the roster who has seen training time with the senior U.S. Women’s National Team, that coming during the USA’s June training camp last year.
- Bugg, Hutton and Thompson also played in the 2023 Pan American Games, giving them valuable experience against senior National Teams. The USA won the bronze medal at that tournament and Hutton scored in the Third-Place Match.
- Goalkeeper and Southern California native Teagan Wy, who had an excellent tournament for the USA at the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Colombia, will attend the Futures Camp sessions as a training player to add another goalkeeper to the mix.
