Abby Dahlkemper Biography

Abby Dahlkemper Full Names Abigail Lynn Dahlkemper is an American soccer player. Dahlkemper Plays plays as a defender for the North Carolina Courage of the National Women’s Soccer League. she poses for the 2019 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue on March 15, 2019, in Saint Lucia.

Abby Dahlkemper Age

Born on May 13, 1993, she is 26 years of age as of 2019. She was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania to Andrew and Susan Dahlkemper, Abby was raised in Menlo Park, California where she attended Sacred Heart Preparatory and played on the soccer team.

Abby Dahlkemper Height

She stands at a height of 5 ft 7 inches tall.

Abby Dahlkemper Family

She was born to a father named Andrew Dahlkemper and a mother called Susan Dahlkemper. The Dahlkemper is a close-knit family and brought their kids up to respect the sanctity and importance of the family in life. To this day, Lynn does not joke with her family and always makes sure she comes back home every now and then.

Abby has an older brother called Andrew Dahlkemper and a younger brother, Dahlkemper. The three siblings grew up together in Menlo Park, California.

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Abby Dahlkemper Husband

There is very little known about her personal Life. The Information Regarding her Husband and Boyfriend is still Under Investigation we will Update when Information is available.

Abby Dahlkemper Career

Dahlkemper began playing football quite early. At the age of 12, she joined the youth team of MVLA Avalanche, a popular soccer team at the time. She showed prowess and promise as a defender, winning the hearts of coaches and other players.

She ended up playing for five years with the MVLA Avalanche, developing her confidence in handling the ball and tackling strikers.

In 2010, after leaving the MVLA Avalanche, she started studying at the Sacred Heart Preparatory school and immediately joined the soccer team in the school. In that same year, she was named the winner of the Gatorade California Girls Soccer Player of the Year award. This award was usually given to young girls with an outstanding and very promising future in soccer.

When she left the Sacred Heart Preparatory school, Abby proceeded to the University of California (UCLA) where she majored in sociology in 2011. At UCLA, she joined ‘The Bruins’, the university’s soccer team.

Abby hit the ground running with The Bruins. She was even once described as the ‘unbreakable wall’ because of her defensive skills. Her performance was so good that she got nominated for the Missouri Athletic Club’s Hermann Trophy for two consecutive years in a row. The Missouri Athletic Club’s Hermann Trophy happens to be the highest recognition of excellence for college students in America.

In 2013, Abbey helped The Bruins to win the NCAA National Championship for the first time in their history. The young woman’s sterling contributions to the team was too glaring and she earned the praise of college students and coaches. In 2014, she won the Honda Sports Award for her stunning display on the pitch. The Honda Sports Award happens to be an annual award which is handed over to the best female college athlete in each of twelve sports in the United States.

Abby Dahlkemper High School

Member of UCLA’s No. 1 ranked 2011 recruiting class … Widely considered the top incoming defender heading into college … 2010 Gatorade Girls Soccer Player of the Year for the state of California … 2010 Parade All-American … Three-time NSCAA Youth All-American (2008-2010) … Rated as the No. 18 recruit in the country according to Top Drawer Soccer … Played high school soccer at Sacred Heart Prep … Two-time West Bay Athletic League (WBAL) Most Valuable Player (2009 & 2010) … San Mateo Times Player of the Year (2009) … Two-time Palo Alto Daily News First-Team selection (2009 & 2010) … Plays club soccer for the MVLA Avalanche … Captained the team to a CYSA Cal-North State Championship in 2008 … Won W-League title with Pali Blues in 2013 and again with the LA Blues in 2014.

Abby Dahlkemper International Career

In 2013, she represented the United States under-23 women’s national soccer team at the 2013 Four Nations Tournament helping the under-23 team win the championship. She played in the 2014 Six Nations Tournament as a member of the under-23 team and helped lead the team to win the championship for a second time.

Dahlkemper received her first call-up to the U.S. Women’s National Team in October 2016 for a set of friendlies against Switzerland. On October 19 she earned her first cap, as she came in as a second-half substitute.

Due to an infection contracted at the end of 2016, Dahlkemper was unable to appear for the U.S. WNT until June 2017. She played her first 90 for the U.S. WNT against Norway on June 11, 2017. Dahlkemper would start 10 of the final 11 games of the year, accumulating 945 minutes in 2017, which was fifth highest on the team.

In 2018 Dahlkemper won she believes Cup and the Tournament of Nations with the U.S. WNT. On September 19, she was named to the final 20 player roster for the 2018 CONCACAF.

Abby Dahlkemper Salary/Networth

As of 2019, Dahlkemper’s net worth is estimated over $0.5 million. Presently, she earns over $200,000 per annum as her salary from the club.

Abby Dahlkemper Swimsuit

Several the United States women’s soccer stars, like Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan, were featured in this year’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue. Morgan, who poured in five goals in today’s contest against Thailand, is in the prominent issue for the third time.

The issue dropped earlier this May, but Morgan and Sports Illustrated have released new photos throughout the month of May and into early June. While Morgan and Rapinoe were the more well-known names, a defender from the U.S. women’s national team was featured in the shoot as well.

Abby Dahlkemper might not be as well known as Alex Morgan or Megan Rapinoe, but after this year’s World Cup, she might be. To celebrate the USWNT’s game against Thailand on Tuesday, Sports Illustrated published a photo from Dahlkemper’s shoot.

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Her journey took some twists and turns, but Abby Dahlkemper has moved from the pristine little soccer field at Atherton’s Sacred Heart to the spine of the U.S. women’s national team.

If, as expected, she makes the final roster for the team that will travel to the Women’s World Cup in France in June, Dahlkemper will play a major role in the Americans’ attempt to defend their world championship.

Defense is critical: A largely remade back line and a relatively untested goalkeeper will face the best strikers in the women’s game. Dahlkemper, 25, has become a mainstay at center back and will be a defensive anchor.

“Everyone’s journey is different,” Dahlkemper said, sitting at the Sacred Heart field, just a few minutes from where she grew up in Menlo Park. “Mine just took a little bit longer. Everyone has their own path.”

After playing for Sacred Heart and the Mountain View Los Altos soccer club, Dahlkemper was recruited to UCLA by current national-team coach Jill Ellis. Though Ellis was gone by the time Dahlkemper landed in Westwood, the original contact proved fruitful.

Unlike some of the other fresh faces who were tapped for the national team while in college or even earlier, Dahlkemper played four years in college without getting a call-up. She developed her skills on U.S. Soccer youth teams, was drafted by the National Women’s Soccer League and even played in Adelaide, Australia, for a short time.

In the NWSL, Dahlkemper helped the North Carolina Courage to three consecutive finals and two titles. In 2017, she was named the league’s Defender of the Year.
“I’m so thankful for the league because it gives so many players opportunities to keep playing,” she said. “The experiences that I had helped me continue to develop. I was ready to go in when I did.”

When Ellis was remaking the national-team roster after the 2016 Olympics and the ensuing end-of-cycle personnel changes, she called on Dahlkemper.

“She’s got tremendous poise,” Ellis said last year. “Her distribution, her quality of delivery. I think she’s a natural playmaker in the back.

“She has a ruggedness about her, a physical dimension to her. I think you have to be brave to be in the back, and she’s brave.”

Dahlkemper had to be really brave two years ago.

She finally got her chance, making her first national-team appearance in October 2016. But a few weeks later, Dahlkemper injured her toe and contracted a serious sepsis infection, which traveled up her leg. The injury developed when the team was training at Avaya Stadium. Dahlkemper’s mother came down to San Jose to check on her and ended up driving her to the hospital.