Emily May Madril (born July 1, 1999) is an American professional

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player who plays as a defender for

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of the

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(NWSL). Madril spent her collegiate career with the

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and was part of the 2021 National Championship winning team before being drafted third overall in the

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Early life

Madril was born in

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in 1999. Her family moved to

Navarre Navarre (; es, Navarra ; eu, Nafarroa ), officially the Chartered Community of Navarre ( es, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, links=no ; eu, Nafarroako Foru Komunitatea, links=no ), is a foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, ...

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in the summer of 2014. She attended

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where she tallied 107 goals and 70 assists for the soccer team and was honored with several individual awards including 2016 Florida Miss Soccer and twice Player of the Year by the Pensacola News Journal. She also played youth club soccer for

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Florida State Seminoles

Madril played three seasons of

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for the

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between 2017 and 2021; she made a total of 62 appearances, starting 61, scoring six goals and registering seven assists. As a freshman she played in all 21 FSU games on the season, including 20 starts. On her collegiate debut she made two assists for

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in a 3–0 win over the

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. She scored her first collegiate goal on October 5 in a 3–0 win over the

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. Madril

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for the 2018 season due to an

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before being forced to sit out in 2019 with a second ACL tear. She returned in 2020 to start in all 16 games during the

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shortened season as FSU claimed both the ACC

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and

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titles. Individually Madril was named College Cup All-Tournament Team, All-ACC Second Team,

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Second Team All-American. In 2021, Madril started all 25 games and played a team-high 2,306 minutes in her redshirt senior year, anchoring a back line that allowed 13 goals and kept 14 shutouts. The team finished second in the regular season standings behind the

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but defended their 2021 ACC women's soccer tournament title with a 1–0 victory over the Cavaliers before going on to win the 2021 National Championship title, beating the

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on penalty kicks in the final. She earned College Cup All-Tournament Team, All-ACC First Team, ACC All-Tournament Team and United Soccer Coaches First Team All-American honors as well being named ACC Defensive Player of the Year. Having redshirted in 2018 and accrued an additional year of eligibility following the COVID-19 impacted season, Madril was permitted to play one more season of college soccer but announced she would forgo it and turn professional in August 2022 after feeling disrespected by the FSU administration following the head coach search.

Club career

Racing Louisville (W League)

Madril signed for the semi-professional

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affiliate of

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in May 2022. She made nine appearances and scored four goals during the 2022 season and was named to the Best XI second team.

BK Häcken

After electing to forgo her final season at Florida State in early August 2022, partway through the

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, Madril signed a professional contract directly with the

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on August 31, 2022. The move allowed Madril to retain her eligibility to have her playing rights distributed in the

and play in the 2023 NWSL season. In a statement, the league's Chief Legal Officer stated: "We are constantly evaluating our policies and procedures to ensure the NWSL is attracting and retaining the best players in the world." Having signed through 2025, Madril was loaned out to Swedish

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side

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for the remainder of the 2022 season. She made her senior club debut on September 14, 2022, starting and playing the full 90 minutes of a 3–0

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third round victory over second division

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. She made a further four appearances, all in the league, scoring one goal in a 7–1 win over

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. Despite being named as a substitute for both

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legs against

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, Madril did not appear in the

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Orlando Pride

On January 12, 2023, Madril was selected in the first round (third overall) of the

International career

In March 2017, Madril was named to a United States under-19 training camp for the first time, one of only two college players on the roster. In January 2018, Madril was called up to an under-20 training camp ahead of the

2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship The 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship was the 9th edition of the CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by CONCACAF for the women's under-20 national teams of the North, Central ...

but she did not make the final roster. In February 2022, Madril was named to the under-23 squad for the 2022 Thorns Invitational. She returned to the under-23s to play in the Three-Nations Tournament hosted in Sweden in June 2022.

Personal life

Madril has a

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sister, Lizzy, who was a high school teammate with her at Navarre before playing college soccer at

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Career statistics

College summary

Club summary

Honors

Florida State Seminoles *

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regular season:

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*Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament:

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* NCAA Women's College Cup:

Individual *

First Team

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: 2021 *Atlantic Coast Conference Defensive Player of the Year

References

External links

Florida State Seminoles profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Madril, Emily 1999 births Living people People from Boise, Idaho American women's soccer players Women's association football defenders Soccer players from Idaho Florida State Seminoles women's soccer players Orlando Pride draft picks Orlando Pride players BK Häcken FF players Damallsvenskan players American expatriate women's soccer players Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden American expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Twin sportspeople