OL Reign have signed former University of Virginia goalkeeper Laurel Ivory to a one-yr agreement with a second-yr option, the club introduced on Monday.
Ivory stands as a Discovery signing after going undrafted in 2021.
“Getting an opportunity with this club and in a extraordinary city is something I even have dreamed about and feature labored closer to for as long as I can recollect," stated Ivory in a group release.
"I’m wonderful thankful for Laura [Harvey] and the education staff who accept as true with in me sufficient to have me join this group and I’m excited to get started out,”
She joins Phallon Tullis-Joyce as an OL Reign goalkeeper within the pre-season.
“I’m truly pleased to have Laurel becoming a member of the membership,” said head train Harvey in the release. “She is a excellent goalkeeper and hard employee; she has verified her characteristics over the last 5 years at UVA. She will make an top notch addition to our goalkeeper group.”
Ivory also has revel in with the USA girls’s national crew children packages, having been involved with both the Under-17 and Under-20 teams. She become the beginning goalkeeper for the Under-17 women’s country wide crew at the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup.
Ivory turned into lately referred to as into this month’s USWNT Under-23 camp, taking location concurrently with the senior USWNT camp in Austin, Texas.
