Olivia Wingate
![]() Wingate with the North Carolina Courage in 2023 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Olivia Ann Wingate[1] | ||
Date of birth | [2] | January 20, 2000||
Place of birth | Medford, Massachusetts, U.S. | ||
Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)[3] | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | North Carolina Courage | ||
Number | 20 | ||
College career | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2018–2022 | Notre Dame Fighting Irish | 95 | (26) |
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2023– | North Carolina Courage | 17 | (1) |
International career | |||
2015–2016 | United States U16 | 6 | (2) |
2017 | United States U18 | 3 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of July 7, 2024 |
Olivia Ann Wingate (born January 20, 2000) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for the North Carolina Courage of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). Raised in Wilmington, Massachusetts, she played college soccer for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. 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.[4][5] She grew up in nearby Wilmington.[5] She started playing soccer at age four but also played other sports such as softball, basketball, and ice hockey.[6][7] She attended Wilmington High School, where she played one season of ice hockey as a forward, leading the team with about 20 goals.[4][7]
During her first year of high school in 2014–15, Wingate played club soccer for FC Stars of the Elite Clubs National League (ECNL), winning the Northeast regional conference.[8] After recovering from a broken leg, she joined her high school soccer team in her sophomore year.[4][9] 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.[4][7] Both years, the Wilmington Wildcats went undefeated in the regular season, winning league titles, but made early exits from the 2015 and 2016 state tournaments.[4][10] Wingate, known for her quickness from a young age,[8][7] was twice named the Middlesex League Player of the Year.[11]
Wingate suffered a knee injury from a collision with an opposing goalkeeper, while playing for her club team in May 2017, that required surgery and sidelined her for more than a year (including all of her senior high school season), up until two weeks before her first college game.[12][13][14]
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.[9][14] In her first three seasons, she played in all of Notre Dame's 40 games and scored five goals.[10] She "upped her game" in her fourth year in 2021, recording seven goals and five assists in 22 starts.[10] She led the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) with a shot accuracy of 0.640 and was named to the All-ACC third team.[6][15] She scored twice in the 2021 NCAA tournament, tying the game in their second-round win over Purdue and adding another in their third-round loss to Arkansas.[3][10]
Wingate was "much more of a complete player" by her fifth season, improving her finishing and movement.[10][16] In 2022, she led Notre Dame in shots and was second in goals (14) and assists (5) in 23 games.[10] 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.[17][18] She received those honors again the week of October 11 after scoring twice and assisting twice over two wins against NC State and Florida State.[19] She was named first-team All-ACC and third-team All-American.[10] She scored three goals in the 2022 NCAA tournament to help Notre Dame reach the Elite Eight before losing to eventual finalists North Carolina.[6][10]
Club career
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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.[11][20] She was signed to a three-year contract.[21] Wingate debuted for the Courage on April 1, 2023, as a substitute in the season opener versus the Kansas City Current.[22] She scored her first professional goal in a Challenge Cup match on June 14, making it 2–1 in the 92nd minute to defeat the Washington Spirit.[23]
In her first appearance of the 2024 season, Wingate came on at halftime and scored the third goal in a 3–1 win against Racing Louisville FC on July 7.[24]
International career
[edit]Wingate first trained with the United States national under-16 team in February 2015.[8] 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.[25][26] In September 2016, she played three games in an under-16 tournament in the Netherlands.[4][25] She played for the national under-18 team on a three-game tour of England in February 2017.[27]
Honors
[edit]North Carolina Courage
Individual
- Wilmington Town Crier's Female Athlete of the Year: 2016, 2022[4][10]
- Wilmington Town Crier's Female Athlete of the Decade: 2010s[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "University of Notre Dame Commencement Official" (PDF). Notre Dame University. p. 61. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
- ^ "Olivia Wingate – NC Courage". North Carolina Courage. Retrieved February 10, 2024.
- ^ a b "Olivia Wingate". University of Notre Dame. Archived from the original on August 13, 2023. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Recap: Courage down Racing Louisville, 3-1, Sunday". North Carolina Courage. July 7, 2024. Retrieved July 7, 2024.
- ^ 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
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- Olivia Wingate at Soccerway