Grace Erin Cutler (born February 18, 1997) is an American professional

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

player who plays as a

forward Forward is a relative direction, the opposite of backward. Forward may also refer to: People * Forward (surname) Sports * Forward (association football) * Forward (basketball), including: ** Point forward ** Power forward (basketball) ** Sm ...

for

WE League The , officially the , also known as the for sponsorship reasons, is the top flight of women's association football in Japan, starting from the 2021–22 season. It is the first fully-professional women's soccer league in Japan. History On 3 J ...

club

Omiya Ardija Ventus is a Japanese women's association football team which plays in WE League. and become the women's section of J. League club Omiya Ardija. History The team started in 1996 as an old girls' club for students of Jumonji Middle School in Toshima Wa ...

Club career

Houston Dash drafted Cutler with the 22nd pick in the

2019 NWSL College Draft The 2019 NWSL College Draft was the seventh annual meeting of National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) franchises to select newly eligible college players for the 2019 NWSL season. It was held on January 10, 2019 in conjunction with the United Socc ...

. She signed with Washington Spirit and the Dash in 2019 but did not appear in a game. Cutler made her

debut on September 26, 2021. She became the first non-Japanese player to score in league history on October 2, 2021.

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Santa Clara profile

West Virginia profile
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cutler, Grace 1997 births Living people American women's soccer players Women's association football forwards Houston Dash draft picks Omiya Ardija Ventus players WE League players American expatriate women's soccer players Expatriate women's footballers in Italy American expatriate sportspeople in Italy Expatriate women's footballers in Japan American expatriate sportspeople in Japan Santa Clara Broncos women's soccer players West Virginia Mountaineers women's soccer players