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Kansas City Current Set Opening Day Roster Ahead of Historic 2024 Season

March 13, 2024 - National Women's Soccer League (NWSL)
Kansas City Current News Release


KANSAS CITY - The Kansas City Current have set the club's roster for the opening of the historic 2024 season. The Current will open the campaign with 24 active players, including nine players who are new to Kansas City in 2024.

As Kansas City opens the world's first stadium purpose-built for professional women's sports, the club will do so with four players who were originally allocated to the club in 2021 (Elizabeth Ball, Lo'eau LaBonta, Desiree Scott, Mallory Weber) and three more who joined the team later in that inaugural year (Hailie Mace, AD Franch, Kristen Hamilton).

Four players will mark their first professional seasons this year, including offseason signings Claire Hutton, Alex Pfeiffer and 2024 NWSL Draft selections Ellie Wheeler and Hope Hisey. Four more players (Regan Steigleder, Temwa Chawinga, Bia Zaneratto, Sophie Braun) will make their NWSL debuts. Rounding out the new faces for Current fans are two players with extensive NWSL experience who have made the move to Kansas City, Nichelle Prince and Bayley Feist.

Desiree Scott, Hanna Glas and Mallory Weber, who finished last season on the Season Ending Injury (SEI) list, will maintain that status to begin the 2024 season and do not count towards the maximum roster limit. Vanessa DiBernardo, also remains on the SEI list from her injury in 2023, however the club expects her to be cleared and ready to play shortly.

The full roster is below:

2024 Kansas City Current Roster (numerical)

# Name Pos Ht DOB Hometown College/School

2 Steigleder, Regan DEF 5' 7" 9/3/98 Iowa City, IA Northwestern University

3 Glas, Hanna (SEI) DEF 5'8" 4/16/93 Sundsvall, Sweden

4 Mace, Hailie DEF 5'7" 3/24/97 Ventura, CA UCLA

5 Wheeler, Ellie DEF 5' 7" 12/14/01 Fairfax, VA Penn State University

6 Chawinga, Temwa (INT) FWD 5' 8" 9/20/98 Northern Region, Malawi

7 Ball, Elizabeth DEF 5'6" 10/20/95 Richmond, VA Penn State University

8 Prince, Nichelle FWD 5' 4" 2/19/95 Ontario, Canada Ohio State University

9 Zaneratto, Bia (INT) FWD 5' 9" 12/17/93 Sau Paulo, Brazil

10 LaBonta, Lo'eau MF 5'1" 3/18/93 Rancho Cucamonga, CA Stanford University

11 Scott, Desiree (SEI) MF 5'2" 7/31/87 Winnipeg, Canada University of Manitoba

12 Ballisager Pedersen, Stine (INT) DEF 5' 7" 1/3/94 Vellev, Denmark

13 Braun, Sophie MF 5' 7" 1/7/00 Beaverton, OR Gonzaga

14 Hutton, Claire MF 5' 6" 1/11/06 Bethlehem, NY

16 Dibernardo, Vanessa (SEI) MF 5'4" 5/15/92 Naperville, IL University of Illinois

17 Cooper, Michelle FWD 5'3" 12/4/02 Clarkstown, MI Duke University

18 Rodriguez, Izzy DEF 5'5" 4/13/99 Canton, MI Ohio State University

20 Weber, Mallory (SEI) DEF 5'6" 4/4/94 Nova, MI Penn State University

21 Franch, AD GK 5'9" 11/12/90 Salina, KS Oklahoma State University

22 Feist, Bayley MF 5' 6" 3/14/97 Cincinnati, OH Wake Forest

24 Robinson, Gabrielle DEF 5'8" 6/18/01 Springfield, VA West Virginia University

25 Hamilton, Kristen FWD 5'4" 4/17/92 Littleton, CO University of Denver

29 Silkowitz, Jordan GK 6'0" 3/27/00 Fairfax, VA Iowa State University

30 Hisey, Hope GK 5'9" 6/26/01 Tucson, AZ Arizona

47 Pfeiffer, Alex (U18) FWD 5' 5" 11/26/07 St. Louis, MO

77 Spaanstra, Alexa FWD 5'5" 2/1/00 Brighton, MI University of Virginia

78 Lauren (INT) DEF 5' 10" 9/13/02 Sao Paulo, Brazil

94 Lavogez, Claire (INT) MF 5'8" 6/18/94 Calais, France

99 Debinha MF 5'2" 10/20/91 Brasôpolis, Brazil

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