LOS ANGELES (May 7, 2026)\u00a0\u2013 The LA Galaxy announced today that the club has reached an agreement to loan midfielder and 2024 MLS SuperDraft pick Tucker Lepley to USL Championship side Oakland Roots SC for the remainder of the 2026 campaign. As part of the agreement, the Galaxy retain the right to recall Lepley from the loan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lepley,\u00a024,\u00a0was selected 62nd overall by the Galaxy in the third round of the 2024 MLS SuperDraft after recording 11 goals and 10 assists in 45 games played (41 starts) across a three-year career at UCLA (2021-23).\u00a0The\u00a0Sporting Kansas City Academy product poetically\u00a0made his MLS and Galaxy debut in a 4-2 win over\u00a0Sporting\u00a0KC on June 15, 2024.\u00a0That same season, Lepley\u00a0tallied one goal and two assists in 19 appearances for Ventura County FC\u00a0in MLS NEXT Pro.\u00a0In 2025, Lepley recorded two assists in 16 matches played (six starts)\u00a0for the LA in league play.\u00a0\u00a0
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During the 2023\u00a0season at UCLA,\u00a0Lepley\u00a0earned First Team All-Pac-12 honors after logging three goals and two\u00a0assist\u00a0in 18 matches played (18 starts) and\u00a0guided\u00a0UCLA to its first Pac-12 title since 2012. In his redshirt freshman season in 2021, the Charlotte, North Carolina\u00a0native was named the Bruins\u2019 Team MVP after notching five goals and seven assists in 19 matches played\u00a0(all starts).\u00a0In addition,\u00a0Lepley earned\u00a010 appearances (5 starts) for Swope Park Rangers during the 2019 USL Championship\u00a0season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Transaction: LA Galaxy agree to loan midfielder Tucker Lepley to USL Championship side Oakland Roots SC for the duration of the 2026 season on May 7, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (May 7, 2026)\u00a0\u2013 The LA Galaxy announced today that the club has reached an agreement to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[100,143,145,144,4894,2722,128373],"class_list":["post-304577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-press-release","tag-transactions","tag-tucker-lepley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304577","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=304577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}