USA Deaf Women's National Team

The US Deaf Women’s National Soccer Team won the gold medal in the 24th Deaflympics held in Brazil this past May. https://www.ussoccer.com/teams/womens-deaf-national-team

Apparently, they won 4-2 in penalty kicks (KFTPM) after the game against Poland ended 2-2. [After much web searching, I could not find an account of the game; even the Deaflympics web site failed to post the pdf of football results, which are available for all the other sports].

Prior to US Soccer’s Annual General Meeting on March 4, 2022, the USDWNT played under the USA Deaf Soccer Association https://usdeafsoccer.com/; so the program is brand new to the federation organization, even though the USDWNT has won several gold medals over the years.

So why post now? It is “old” news.

Every year I scan the NWSL draft list for non-D1 players and look them up. Yesterday, for the 2023 draft, I found Erin Cembrale, senior midfielder for D3 Huntingdon College in Montgomery, AL. It turned out that she was on the 2022 USDWNT gold medal squad in Brazil.

Another D3 player on the gold medal squad is Mia White, who I saw play for the Rochester (NY) Institute of Technology 2016-2019. She was RIT team captain and Liberty League Player of the Year for 2019. She is now a Player Representative on the Board of Directors for USA Deaf Soccer Association.

The 2022 team was coached by Amy Griffin and assisted by Joy Fawcett.

Some highlights of the gold medal game are shown at 12:40, with Mia White speaking post-game at 13:00:
Closed captioning works when people are signing to the camera, for those who do not know ASL.

If anyone can post a full team roster and/or game box scores, that would be terrific.

Thanks,
CJ

 

Thanks @lil_one for the information! When I was assembling a list from the twitter posts and looking up players, I found this page: https://usdwnt.weebly.com/

It has the roster, USA game lineups, scores and scorers for 2022 and going back to 2005.
I copied the roster info and put it in the table below. Quite an eclectic group!
The age range is 18-42, 5 are Deaflympic veterans and 16 are rookies in the competition.

No.	Name	Position	Age	Hometown
1	Taegan Frandsen	GK	18	Centerville UT
2	Kate Ward	MID (Captain)	28	El Paso TX
3	Paige Beaudry	DEF	19	Riverview MI
4	McCall Madriago	MID	26	Folsom CA
5	Gracie Fitzgerald	DEF	23	Georgetown IN
6	Mia White	FWD	23	Littleton CO
7	Olivia Makey	DEF	30	Puyallup WA
8	Erin Cembrale	MID	21	Palm Harbor FL
9	Ani Khachadourian	MID	20	Cary NC
10	Anessa Campos	FWD (injured)	20	Riverside CA
11	Sydney Andrews	DEF	28	Aptos CA
12	Sophia Post	FWD	18	Murray UT
13	Ashley Derrington	MID	31	Playa Vista CA
14	Paris Price	MID	17	Fall City WA
15	Elizabeth Feustel	DEF	42	Atlanta GA
16	Krystyna Miller	FWD	20	Plainville CT
17	Nicole Nunes	DEF	20	Santa Clara CA
18	Faith Wylie	FWD	18	Dripping Springs TX
19	Ella Sheridan	GK	16	Dallas TX
21	Emily Cressy	FWD	33	Huntington Beach CA
22	Nicole Koehn	FWD	27	San Jose CA

The 2023 Deaf Women’s World Cup is in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia September 20 – October 8. The US won both previous world cups it entered (2012 and 2016).

Let us hope the US Soccer Federation doesn’t screw it up this year.

-CJ

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Nice! I think they look good in the US Soccer gear.