Olivia Wingate
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | January 20, 2000 | ||
Place of birth | Medford, Massachusetts, U.S. | ||
Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | North Carolina Courage | ||
Number | 20 | ||
College career | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2018–2022 | Notre Dame | 95 | (26) |
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2023– | North Carolina Courage | 16 | (0) |
International career | |||
2015–2016 | United States U16 | 6 | (2) |
2017 | United States U18 | 3 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22:19, 10 February 2024 (UTC) |
Olivia Wingate (born January 20, 2000)[2] is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for the North Carolina Courage of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). A native of Wilmington, Massachusetts, she played college soccer for Notre Dame. She was selected by the Courage sixth overall in the 2023 NWSL Draft.
Early life[edit]
Wingate was born in Medford, Massachusetts, the second of four children of Carol and Steven Wingate.[3][4] She grew up in nearby Wilmington.[4] She started playing soccer at age four but also played other sports such as softball, basketball, and ice hockey.[5][6] She played one season of ice hockey for her high school team as a forward, leading the team with about 20 goals.[3][6]
During her first year of high school in 2014–15, Wingate played at club level for the Massachusetts-based FC Stars of the Elite Clubs National League (ECNL) and won the Northeast regional conference.[7] After recovering from a broken leg, she left FC Stars as a sophomore and joined her high school soccer team at Wilmington High School.[8][3] She scored 12 goals in about ten games as a sophomore; as a junior, she scored 17 goals and had five assists in 13 games.[3][6] The Wilmington Wildcats went undefeated in the regular season both years, going a combined 33–0–3 for two league titles, but made early exits from the 2015 and 2016 state tournaments.[3][9] Wingate, known for her quickness from a young age,[7][6] was twice named the Middlesex League Player of the Year.[10]
A collision with an opposing goalkeeper, while playing for a club team in May 2017, led to a knee injury that required surgery and sidelined Wingate for more than a year (including all of her senior high school season), up until two weeks before her first college game.[11][12][13]
College career[edit]
Wingate verbally committed to the University of Notre Dame as a high school sophomore in September 2015 and signed a letter of intent in February 2018.[8][13] In her first three seasons, she played in all of Notre Dame's 40 games and scored five goals.[9] She "upped her game" in her fourth year in 2021, recording seven goals and five assists in 22 starts.[9] She led the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) with a shot accuracy of 0.640 and was named to the All-ACC third team.[5][14] She scored twice in the 2021 NCAA tournament, an equalizer in the second round versus Purdue and another in their third-round loss to Arkansas.[1][9]
Wingate was "much more of a complete player" by her fifth season, improving her finishing and movement.[9][15] In 2022, she led her team in shots and was second in goals (14) and assists (5) in 23 games.[9] On September 1, she scored a hat trick against Wisconsin, with three goals all in the second half, and was named ACC Player of the Week.[16][17] She received those honors again the week of October 11 after scoring twice and assisting twice across two wins over NC State and Florida State.[18] She was named first-team All-ACC and third-team All-American.[9] She scored three goals in the 2022 NCAA tournament to help Notre Dame reach the Elite Eight before losing to eventual finalists North Carolina.[5][9]
Professional career[edit]
The North Carolina Courage had multiple first-round picks in the 2023 NWSL Draft; Wingate said she expected to her name to be called in one of their later first-round spots, but at sixth overall, she was the team's first selection.[10][19] In March 2023, she signed with the Courage through 2025.[20] She made her NWSL debut for the Courage on April 1, 2023, as a substitute in the season opener versus the Kansas City Current.[21]
Wingate scored her first NWSL goal on June 14, 2023, with the 2–1 game winner off a Haley Hopkins pass in the 92nd minute in a Challenge Cup match versus the Washington Spirit.[22]
International career[edit]
Wingate first trained with the United States national under-16 team at a camp in Carson, California, in February 2015.[7] In May 2016, she played three games for the under-16 team and scored two goals in the first women's edition of the Tournament of Nations (Torneo delle Nazioni) in Gradisca d'Isonzo, Italy.[23][24] In September 2016, she played another three games in an under-16 tournament in the Netherlands.[3][23] She represented the United States with the national under-18 team on a three-game tour of England in February 2017.[25]
Honors[edit]
North Carolina Courage
Individual
- Wilmington Town Crier's Female Athlete of the Year: 2016, 2022[3][9]
- Wilmington Town Crier's Female Athlete of the Decade: 2010s[6]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Olivia Wingate". University of Notre Dame. Archived from the original on August 13, 2023. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ "Olivia Wingate – NC Courage". North Carolina Courage. Retrieved February 10, 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g Pote, Jamie (December 17, 2016). "Wilmington Town Crier's annual: Female Athlete of the Year – Olivia Wingate". Wilmington Town Crier. Archived from the original on August 13, 2023. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ a b Hurley, Christopher (September 22, 2022). "Wingate excited for soccer homecoming". The Lowell Sun. Archived from the original on August 13, 2023. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ a b c Herko, Annika (May 19, 2023). "Olivia Wingate leads line for Irish women's soccer". The Observer (student newspaper). Archived from the original on August 13, 2023. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ a b c d e Pote, Jamie (December 8, 2019). "Town Crier's Female Athlete of the Decade: Olivia Wingate". Wilmington Town Crier. Archived from the original on August 13, 2023. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ a b c Foley, Brendan (June 13, 2015). "Wingate makes leap to national status". Wilmington Town Crier. Archived from the original on August 13, 2023. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ a b Foley, Brendan (September 12, 2015). "Wingate commits to Notre Dame". Wilmington Town Crier. Archived from the original on August 13, 2023. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Pote, Jamie (January 7, 2023). "The Female Athlete of the Year: Olivia Wingate". Wilmington Town Crier. Archived from the original on August 13, 2023. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ a b Albert, James (January 13, 2023). "Wilmington's Olivia Wingate can't wait to start pro soccer career". The Lowell Sun. Archived from the original on August 13, 2023. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ Pote, Jamie (September 17, 2017). "Wingate out for the season". Wilmington Town Crier. Archived from the original on August 13, 2023. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ Wingate, Olivia (March 5, 2019). "Olivia Wingate". strongerscars.com. Archived from the original on August 13, 2023. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ a b Pote, Jamie (February 17, 2018). "National Letter of Intent Day: Seven (six present) athletes sign on the dotted line". Wilmington Town Crier. Archived from the original on August 13, 2023. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ Pote, Jamie (October 8, 2022). "Quite the homecoming performance by Olivia Wingate: Notre Dame striker scores a goal in 3-0 win over BC". Wilmington Town Crier. Archived from the original on August 13, 2023. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ Moller, Nate (September 14, 2022). "Olivia Wingate prepared to lead undefeated Irish into conference play". The Observer (student newspaper). Archived from the original on August 13, 2023. Retrieved August 12, 2023.
- ^ Pote, Jamie (September 10, 2022). "Wilmington College Notebook: Wingate nets hat trick; 71st in ND program history". Wilmington Town Crier. Archived from the original on August 13, 2023. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ "Duke's Cooper, ND's Wingate, UVA's Staude Notch ACC Player of Week Honors". Atlantic Coast Conference. September 6, 2022. Archived from the original on December 25, 2022. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ "ACC Announces Women's Soccer Player of Week Honors". Atlantic Coast Conference. October 11, 2022. Archived from the original on December 25, 2022. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ Pote, Jamie (January 23, 2023). "From WHS to Notre Dame University to the North Carolina Courage: Olivia Wingate turning pro". Wilmington Town Crier. Archived from the original on August 13, 2023. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ Shalin, Dan (March 15, 2023). "Wilmington's Olivia Wingate Signs With NWSL's NC Courage Through 2025". Patch.com. Archived from the original on August 13, 2023. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ Cooke, Jason (April 1, 2023). "Wingate makes pro debut for courage". Wilmington Town Crier. Archived from the original on August 13, 2023. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ "Local roundup: Wilmington's Olivia Wingate nets first professional goal". The Lowell Sun. June 15, 2023. Archived from the original on August 13, 2023. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ a b Pote, Jamie (September 10, 2016). "Wingate gets call back to US Under 16 National Team; Hendee named top representative of Coaches Association". Wilmington Town Crier. Archived from the original on August 13, 2023. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ Foley, Brendan (May 18, 2016). "WHS Sophomore Soccer Star: Wingate finishes up Under 16 National Tournament in Italy". Wilmington Town Crier. Archived from the original on August 13, 2023. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ Pote, Jamie (March 11, 2017). "Wingate, U-18 National team, finish 2-0-1 in England". Wilmington Town Crier. Archived from the original on August 13, 2023. Retrieved August 12, 2023.
External links[edit]
- Olivia Wingate at Soccerway
- Living people
- 2000 births
- People from Wilmington, Massachusetts
- Soccer players from Massachusetts
- American women's soccer players
- Women's association football forwards
- Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's soccer players
- North Carolina Courage draft picks
- North Carolina Courage players
- National Women's Soccer League players
- United States women's youth international soccer players
- 21st-century American sportswomen