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Taryn Torres

Taryn Layne Torres (born April 23, 1999) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for NJ/NY Gotham FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). She played collegiately for the Virginia Cavaliers before being selected by Gotham in the 2021 NWSL Draft. She represented the United States at the youth international level.

Taryn Torres
Torres at the White House in 2024
Personal information
Full name Taryn Layne Torres[1]
Date of birth (1999-04-23) April 23, 1999 (age 25)[1]
Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)[2]
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 NJ/NY Gotham FC
Number 8
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2017–2021 Virginia Cavaliers 100 (14)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2021– NJ/NY Gotham FC 23 (0)
International career
United States U-17 14 (1)
United States U-18
2017–2018 United States U-20 11 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of September 1, 2024

Early life

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Torres grew up in Frisco, Texas, one of two daughters born to Eric and Misty Torres. Her father played college baseball at New Mexico, and her sister, Hollyn, played college soccer at Harvard and South Carolina.[3][4] She played multiple sports growing up before electing to focus on soccer.[5] She played club soccer for FC Dallas in the ECNL and the amateur WPSL.[6] She attended Centennial High School, where she lettered in high school volleyball and four years of soccer. She was named an NSCAA All-American as a senior in 2016.[3]

College career

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Torres played five years as a starting midfielder for the Virginia Cavaliers. She led her team in scoring with eight goals as a freshman in the 2017 season, being named to the Atlantic Coast Conference all-freshman team and All-ACC third team. She scored two goals and provided a team-high six assists as a sophomore in 2018.[3] She started every game for the Cavaliers as a junior in 2019, being named second-team All-ACC, and scored less individually but helped her team reach the final of the ACC tournament and earn a number-one seed in the NCAA championship.[3][7]

After sitting out most of the fall season due to injury in 2020, Torres was drafted by Sky Blue FC (soon to become NJ/NY Gotham FC) but decided to stay at Virginia, not wanting to her injury-shortened year to be her last.[5] She provided two assists during the NCAA tournament that was pushed to the spring, helping Virginia get as far as the national semifinals, where they lost to eventual champions Florida State on penalties, with Torres's kick one of two shots saved by the keeper.[3][8] She was named third-team All-ACC in her graduate season in 2021, helping Virginia win the ACC regular-season title, though they lost to Florida State in the conference tournament final and were upset by BYU in the third round of the NCAA tournament.[3][9]

Club career

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NJ/NY Gotham FC, 2021–

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Torres was drafted by Sky Blue FC (soon renamed NJ/NY Gotham FC) 23rd overall in the third round of the 2021 NWSL Draft but chose not to turn professional until completing an additional year in college.[5][10] In the summer of 2021, she played for the NJ/NY Gotham Reserves team in the Women's Premier Soccer League, leading the team to win the Metropolitan Conference with a 9–0 record.[5] She also trained with the Gotham first team during that college off-season.[5] Following her fifth year at Virginia, she signed her first professional contract with Gotham on December 22, 2021, for one year with an option to extend.[11]

Torres made her first professional start in a 1–1 draw to the Washington Spirit in the Challenge Cup on March 25, 2022.[5] She started nine of thirteen appearances in her rookie regular season, filling a role that had belonged to Allie Long, who was on maternity leave.[5][12] Gotham struggled throughout the season and finished at the bottom of the NWSL table.[13] The following year, Torres suffered an ACL injury that kept her out of the 2023 season.[12] Gotham narrowly qualified for the playoffs and went on to win the NWSL Championship.[14]

International career

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Torres trained with the United States youth national team beginning at the age of 14 in 2013.[15] She made 14 appearances at the under-17 level, including at the 2016 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship, but was cut from the roster by head coach B. J. Snow ahead of the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.[16] After training with the under-19 team and playing friendlies for the under-18s in Australia—as well as her freshman season at Virginia—she made it back to the top youth level with the under-20 team in 2017.[16] She played for the team at the 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, where she scored her country's first goal of the tournament, converted her penalty kick in the semifinal shootout, and started in the final against Mexico, which they lost on penalties.[6] She was selected to the roster for the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, where the United States did not make it out of the group stage.[17] During her NWSL rookie season, she was selected to play for the under-23 team in a friendly tournament in Sweden in 2022.[18]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Official List of Players U20WWC" (PDF). FIFA.com. July 25, 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 26, 2018.
  2. ^ "Taryn Torres". NJ/NY Gotham FC. Retrieved September 4, 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Taryn Torres". Virginia Cavaliers. Retrieved September 4, 2024.
  4. ^ "Hollyn Torres". South Carolina Gamecocks. Retrieved September 4, 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Toneli, Jenna. "Meet Taryn Torres: Gotham FC's Newest Midfielder". Nets Republic. Retrieved September 4, 2024.
  6. ^ a b Crooke, Dan (February 27, 2018). "Taryn Torres takes another step towards a FIFA World Cup". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved September 4, 2024.
  7. ^ Goff, Steven (November 11, 2019). "Virginia women's soccer team earns a No. 1 seed in NCAA tournament". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 4, 2024.
  8. ^ "Stellar Season Ends in Heartbreak for Hoos". Virginia Cavaliers. May 31, 2021. Retrieved September 4, 2024.
  9. ^ Wieland, Ben (June 28, 2022). "State of the program: Virginia women's soccer". Streaking the Lawn. SB Nation. Retrieved September 4, 2024.
  10. ^ Havsy, Jane (January 13, 2021). "Sky Blue FC bolsters midfield, pocketbook in unpredictable NWSL Draft". Daily Record. Retrieved September 4, 2024.
  11. ^ "University of Virginia Midfielder Taryn Torres Inks One-Year Deal with NJ/NY Gotham FC". NJ/NY Gotham FC. December 22, 2021. Retrieved September 4, 2024.
  12. ^ a b "Midfielder Taryn Torres Suffers Season-Ending Injury". NJ/NY Gotham FC. March 3, 2023. Retrieved September 4, 2024.
  13. ^ Kassouf, Jeff (November 2, 2023). "How Gotham FC went from a 'mess' to NWSL semifinals". ESPN. Retrieved September 4, 2024.
  14. ^ "NJ/NY Gotham FC Wins 2023 NWSL Championship, Presented by Bud Light". National Women's Soccer League. November 11, 2023. Retrieved September 4, 2024.
  15. ^ "U14 GNT Heads to Portland, Ore". United States Soccer Federation. May 6, 2013. Retrieved September 4, 2024 – via TopDrawerSoccer.
  16. ^ a b "The Mindful Journey of U-20 WNT Forward Taryn Torres". United States Soccer Federation. December 6, 2017. Archived from the original on January 16, 2018.
  17. ^ "Failure at the U20 Women's World Cup is a symptom of bigger YNT problems". Stars and Stripes FC. SB Nation. October 3, 2018. Retrieved September 4, 2024.
  18. ^ "Spaanstra, Torres Called To U.S. U-23 Women's Youth National Team". Virginia Cavaliers. June 15, 2022. Retrieved September 4, 2024.
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