OL Reign have actually signed previous University of Virginia goalkeeper Laurel Ivory to a one-year agreement with a second-year choice, the club revealed on Monday.
Ivory stands as a Discovery finalizing after going undrafted in 2021.
“Getting an opportunity with this club and in a fantastic city is something I have dreamed about and have worked towards for as long as I can remember,” said Ivory in a team release.
“I’m super grateful for Laura [Harvey] and the coaching staff who believe in me enough to have me join this team and I’m excited to get started,”
She signs up with Phallon Tullis-Joyce as an OL Reign goalkeeper in the pre-season.
“I’m really pleased to have Laurel joining the club,” stated head coach Harvey in the release. “She is a great goalkeeper and hard worker; she has proven her qualities over the past five years at UVA. She will make an excellent addition to our goalkeeper group.”
Ivory likewise has experience with the United States ladies’s nationwide group youth programs, having actually been included with both the Under-17 and Under-20 groups. She was the beginning goalkeeper for the Under-17 ladies’s nationwide group at the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup.
Ivory was just recently called into this month’s USWNT Under-23 camp, occurring simultaneously with the senior USWNT camp in Austin, Texas.
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