Harvard-Westlake star Alyssa Thompson becomes the youngest player ever selected No. 1 in the NWSL draft, with the 18-year-old going to Angel City FC.
selected her with the first overall pick. It was an inevitability — Angel City tossing in picks and cash and rainbows in orchestrating a three-team deal for the No. 1 pick to select Thompson — but also unprecedented, a teenager decommitting from Stanford to turn pro.
She was playing up once again Thursday, sitting with pink fingernails and white Nikes and a rapidly beating heart in a position normally reserved for 21-and-22-year-old college athletes. Thompson came straight from class to the draft party, Nike’s NIL signee beaming through a live mid-draft interview and call with Angel City coach Freya Coombe.
“I do think it’s indicative of the growth of women’s soccer in this country,” Aozasa, who recruited Thompson as an assistant at Stanford, said of the 18-year-old’s decision. “The dad always told us since we met,” Thompson’s agent Alan Naigeon said, “‘We’ll need something crazy to go [away from] Stanford.”
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