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Bay FC\u2019s KiKi Pickett (23) kicks the ball against Seattle Reign FC in the second half at PayPal Park in San Jose, Calif., on Friday, April 26, 2025. (Shae Hammond\/Bay Area News Group)<\/p>\nThe San Diego Wave have changed owners, general managers and coaches over the last two years. They\u2019ve almost completely overhauled their roster.<\/p>\n
But San Diego\u2019s Stanford pipeline rolls on.<\/p>\n
The club announced Friday that it has signed veteran midfielder\/defender Kiki Pickett to a two-year contract through the 2027 season. She has played in 68 National Women\u2019s Soccer League games in her career, most of them with Bay FC. Before that, she suited up for the Kansas City Current and North Carolina Courage.<\/p>\n
\u201cKiki is a dynamic player we\u2019ve been familiar with for a long time, dating back to her time\u00a0with Kansas City. We\u2019re excited to bring her into our environment,\u201d said Wave sporting director and general manager Camille Ashton. \u201cShe is a competitive, intelligent player who brings experience and composure to the midfield, and we believe she fits well with the way we want to play. Kiki\u2019s signing adds important depth to our group and will make us more competitive in 2026 and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pickett played collegiately at Stanford from 2017 to 2021, leading the Cardinal to a pair of national championships. She was named Pac-12 Defender of the Year during her senior season, continuing the Palo Alto-based powerhouse\u2019s tradition of soccer success.<\/p>\n
Bay FC\u2019s KiKi Pickett (23) kicks the ball against Seattle Reign FC in the second half at PayPal Park in San Jose, Calif., on Friday, April 26, 2025. (Shae Hammond\/Bay Area News Group)<\/p>\n
Given the Wave\u2019s history, perhaps it was inevitable that Pickett would end up in San Diego.<\/p>\n
The Wave made Stanford\u2019s Naomi Girma their first-ever draft pick, taking the defender No. 1 overall in 2022. They took Stanford midfielder Belle Briede in the third round of that year\u2019s draft, and selected another Cardinal midfielder, Sierra Enge, with their top pick in 2023.<\/p>\n
The team\u2019s first-round pick in the 2024 draft, defender Kennedy Wesley, was also a Stanford player. When the NWSL did away with the draft starting in 2025, San Diego signed defender Nya Harrison out of Stanford as a free agent.<\/p>\n
Of the group, only Wesley and Harrison remain with the club. The Wave have completely remade their roster since hiring Ashton, the former Kansas City GM, some 18 months ago. Before joining the front office, Ashton \u2014 then known as Camille Levin \u2014 was a standout defender at \u2026. Stanford.<\/p>\n
The Wave open their season on March 14 with a home game against the Houston Dash.<\/p>\n
Wave re-sign goalie<\/p>\n
The Wave have signed goalkeeper DiDi Hara\u010di\u0107 to a new one-year contract, giving the veteran a chance to compete for longtime starter Kailen Sheridan\u2019s former job.<\/p>\n
Hara\u010di\u0107 has made more than 100 appearances since making her NWSL debut in 2013. The 33-year-old played the 2025 season with the Wave, starting two matches. The club announced in December that while Hara\u010di\u0107 had not re-signed for \u201826, the two sides remained in \u201cactive discussions\u201d regarding a contract.<\/p>\n
The club\u2019s need for a goalie increased after Sheridan and the club announced Dec. 29 that they were parting ways. Hara\u010di\u0107 is one of two goalkeepers on the roster, joining rookie Leah Freeman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Diego Wave have changed owners, general managers and coaches over the last two years. They\u2019ve almost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[181,74,76,75,1083,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-136777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-latest-headlines","9":"tag-san-diego","10":"tag-san-diego-headlines","11":"tag-san-diego-news","12":"tag-soccer","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}