Kelly Conheeney (born January 24, 1991) is an American
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
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 ...
.
A native of
Ridgewood, New Jersey
Ridgewood is a village in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 24,958,Ridgewood High School.
Career
In 2012, she played with the Ottawa Fury, scoring the final penalty kick in the league championship game to win the league title.
Conheeney suffered a concussion while at Virginia Tech in 2012, and was sidelined for three years. In April 2016, she made the opening day roster for
Sky Blue FC
NJ/NY Gotham FC is a professional women's soccer team based in Harrison, New Jersey. Founded in 2006 as Jersey Sky Blue, the team was known as Sky Blue FC from 2008 until 2020. A founding member of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) in 2013 ...
. She scored the game-winning goal in Sky Blue FC's first game of the
2016 NWSL season
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