Overview
- Rose Lavelle won Female Player of the Year with 29.2% of the weighted vote, finishing ahead of Sam Coffey (23.9%) and Catarina Macario (22.3%) in her first win of the award.
- Returning from ankle surgery in June, Lavelle logged goals and assists for the USWNT and clinched Gotham’s NWSL title with the championship-winning goal and MVP, as the club also captured the CONCACAF W Champions Cup.
- Lilly Reale earned Young Female Player of the Year with 48% of the vote, added NWSL Rookie of the Year and a Second Best XI nod, and directed a $10,000 prize donation to the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston.
- Reale rose from U-23 standout—scoring twice against Germany—to a senior debut on June 26, while Lavelle added late-year USWNT goals against Portugal and New Zealand.
- Both players have joined Gotham’s preseason in Spain and will travel to London for the FIFA Women’s Champions Cup, making them unavailable for the USWNT’s January matches.