Canadian international Kailen Sheridan, a former NWSL goalkeeper of the year, has signed a two-year contract with the North Carolina Courage.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old from Whitby, Ont., Canada’s No. 1 ‘keeper, spent the last four seasons with the San Diego Wave.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re delighted to welcome Kailen Sheridan to the club,” Courage chief soccer officer Ceri Bowley said in a statement. “She is an elite goalkeeper with proven experience at the highest level, and her leadership, distribution and shot-stopping ability immediately raise the standard of our squad.<\/p>\n
“Kailen brings a strong mentality and professionalism that will be invaluable both on and off the pitch, and we\u2019re confident she will play a key role in helping us achieve our objectives moving forward.”<\/p>\n
Sheridan’s surprise departure from San Diego came Dec. 29 with the club announcing her contract had been “terminated by mutual agreement.”<\/p>\n
In a social media post the same day, however, Sheridan’s wife Dominique said “This sudden move is as much of a shock to us as it is to all of you.”<\/p>\n
U.S. international Casey Murphy, North Carolina’s starting ‘keeper, signed with the expansion Boston Legacy as a free agent last month. Also in December, the Courage sent goalkeeper Marisa Jordan to the Kansas City Current in exchange for a 2026 international roster spot.<\/p>\n
Sheridan was named the league’s top goalkeeper in 2022 and was selected to the NWSL Best XI first team in 2021 and 2022 and second team in 2023.<\/p>\n
Sheridan has won 63 caps for Canada with 31 shutouts.<\/p>\n
The Canadian was taken by NJ\/NY Gotham FC 23rd overall in the 2017 NWSL draft after a standout career at Clemson. Sheridan spent five seasons with Gotham before being traded to San Diego ahead of the club\u2019s 2022 inaugural season.<\/p>\n
Sheridan has made 166 career NWSL regular-season appearances with 42 clean sheets.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cI can\u2019t wait to join the Courage and bring my family to North Carolina,” Sheridan said. “This team\u2019s soccer identity and tactical systems are so exciting and fit the way I like to play as well. I\u2019m really looking forward to joining the team, getting to work on the field, and focusing on a great season this year.”<\/p>\n
North Carolina finished ninth in the 14-team NWSL at 9-9-8, two points below sixth-place San Diego (10-9-7).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian international Kailen Sheridan, a former NWSL goalkeeper of the year, has signed a two-year contract with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-397076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}