Emily Rose Gray (born October 5, 2000) is an American soccer player who plays as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

for

North Carolina Courage The North Carolina Courage is a professional women's soccer team based in Cary, North Carolina. It was founded on January 9, 2017, after Stephen Malik acquired National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) franchise rights from the Western New York ...

of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).

Early life

Gray was raised in the Sewell section of

Washington Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey Washington Township is a township in Gloucester County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2010 U.S. census, the township's population was 48,677, an increase of 118 from the 2010 census count of 48,559, which in turn reflected an i ...

, where she attended Washington Township High School.

Collegiate career

Gray attended

Virginia Tech Virginia Tech (formally the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and informally VT, or VPI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also has educational facilities in six re ...

where she played for the Hokies from 2018 to 2021.

Club career

North Carolina Courage, 2022

Gray was selected by the

as the number three overall pick at the

2022 NWSL Draft The 2022 NWSL Draft was the 10th annual meeting of National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) franchises to select eligible college players. It was held on December 18, 2021, and hosted remotely by CBS Sports. Format * All 12 teams of the Nationa ...

. She made her debut for North Carolina on April 29, 2022, earning an assist.

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* * 2000 births Living people National Women's Soccer League players American women's soccer players Soccer players from New Jersey Women's association football midfielders North Carolina Courage players North Carolina Courage draft picks People from Washington Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey Sportspeople from Gloucester County, New Jersey Virginia Tech Hokies women's soccer players United States women's under-20 international soccer players Washington Township High School (New Jersey) alumni Youth Olympic bronze medalists for Canada {{US-footy-midfielder-stub