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A peek by the Wake Forest report books exhibits Aubrey Bledsoe (now Kingsbury) because the queen of Deamon Deacon goalkeeping. The Ohio native was a three-time All-American, peaking with an look on the second crew throughout her senior 12 months in 2013.

However when the curtain closed on her faculty careeer within the fall of 2013, there was no Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League profession in Kingsbury’s quick future. The league had simply kicked off earlier that 12 months and it was unclear if it could final. As a substitute, she signed to play with Pali Blues, a dominant semi-pro crew in California, and from there went to play in Norway.

Sky Blue FC (now NJ/NY Gotham FC) signed Kingsbury as a discovery participant in 2015 the place she languished as a backup earlier than being uncovered and chosen within the subsequent 12 months’s growth draft by the Orlando Pleasure. She was set to get some enjoying time in 2016 when Ashlyn Harris went to the Olympics, however Kingsbury broke her foot in coaching and missed the rest of the season.