Gabriella Monique "Kika" Toulouse (born May 3, 1989) 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.

Early life

Raised in

Arlington, Virginia Arlington County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The county is situated in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of the Potomac River directly across from the District of Columbia, of which it was once a part. The county is ...

, Toulouse attended

Bishop Denis J. O'Connell High School Bishop Denis J. O'Connell High School (also known as DJO) is a Roman Catholic college preparatory school founded in 1957 in Arlington County, Virginia. It was established by the Diocese of Richmond, but it has been under the direction of the Dio ...

where she helped the team to three

Washington Catholic Athletic Conference The Washington Catholic Athletic Conference (WCAC) is a major high school athletic league for boys, girls, and co-ed Catholic high schools of the Archdiocese of Washington & Diocese of Arlington Schools located in the Washington Metropolitan Ar ...

championship titles. She also played club soccer for Braddock Road Club (BRYC) and won six Virginia State Cup Championships with two different teams within the club.

University of Virginia Cavaliers

Toulouse attended the

University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a Public university#United States, public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United S ...

where she played for the Cavaliers from 2007 to 2011.

Club career

Rågsveds IF

In 2012, Toulouse played for

Rågsveds IF Rågsveds IF is a Swedish football club located in Hagsätra. Background Rågsveds IF will start 2015 playing in Division 4 Stockholm Södra which is the sixth tier of Swedish football. Woman squad will start playing in Division 3 which is fifth ...

in the

Swedish Football Division 4 Division 4 is the sixth level in the league system of Swedish football and comprises 39 sections with 8 to 12 football teams in each. The competition There are 39 groups of 8 to 12 teams each representing a local geographical area. During ...

. She scored nine goals during her 2012 campaign including two hat-tricks, one of which occurred during her first professional game.

Washington Spirit

In February 2013, Toulouse signed with the

Washington Spirit The Washington Spirit is an American professional soccer club based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area that participates in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). It is a continuation of the D.C. United Women of the W-League and cont ...

for the inaugural season of the

National Women's Soccer League The National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) is a professional women's soccer league at the top of the United States league system. It is owned by the teams and, until 2020, was under a management contract with the United States Soccer Federatio ...

Houston Dash

On January 10, 2014, it was announced that the

Houston Dash The Houston Dash is a professional women's soccer team based in Houston, Texas. It joined the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) in the 2014 season, and is affiliated with the MLS team Houston Dynamo FC. History Establishment On November ...

had selected Toulouse with the tenth and final pick in the 2014 NWSL Expansion Draft. She was waived by the Houston Dash in September 2014. She has since retired and currently works with the

New York Red Bulls The New York Red Bulls are an American professional soccer club based in the New York metropolitan area. The Red Bulls compete in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Eastern Conference. The club was established in October 1994 and be ...

International career

Toulouse has represented the United States as a member of the

United States women's national under-23 soccer team The United States U-23 women's national soccer team is a youth soccer team operated under the auspices of U.S. Soccer. Its primary role is the development of players in preparation for the full Women's National Team. The team competes in a va ...

References

External links

US Soccer player profile
* 1989 births Living people Washington Spirit players American women's soccer players Soccer players from Virginia Sportspeople from Arlington County, Virginia Virginia Cavaliers women's soccer players University of Virginia alumni Houston Dash players Women's association football defenders National Women's Soccer League players Orange County Waves players {{US-women-footy-bio-stub