Marisa Rene Abegg (born March 14, 1987) is an American retired

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 ...

defender.

Early career

She attended

Lakeridge High School Lakeridge High School is a four-year public secondary school in Lake Oswego, Oregon, a suburb south of Portland. The second high school in the Lake Oswego School District, it first opened in 1971. Academics In 1987, Lakeridge High School was honor ...

Lake Oswego, Oregon Lake Oswego () is a city in the U.S. state of Oregon, primarily in Clackamas County, with small portions extending into neighboring Multnomah and Washington counties. Located about south of Portland and surrounding the Oswego Lake, the town was ...

College

Abegg played for the

Stanford Cardinal women's soccer The Stanford Cardinal women's soccer team represent Stanford University in the Pac-12 Conference of NCAA Division I soccer. Home games are played at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium, located on the university's campus in Palo Alto. Paul Ratcliffe has coac ...

team from 2005 to 2008, starting in all ninety-one matches that Stanford played during her college career and scoring three goals.

Professional career

Abegg was drafted by

FC Gold Pride FC Gold Pride was an American professional soccer club based in the San Francisco Bay Area, which participated in Women's Professional Soccer. The club replaced the San Jose CyberRays of the defunct Women's United Soccer Association as the top-l ...

at the

2009 WPS Draft The 2009 WPS Draft took place on January 16, 2009. It was the first draft held by Women's Professional Soccer to assign the WPS rights of college players to the American-based teams, though other players not previously assigned could be drafted as ...

. Despite being promoted from the developmental roster to the full squad, Abegg was deemed surplus to requirements at season's close by

Albertin Montoya Albertin Montoya (born February 19, 1975) is a Cuban-born American soccer coach and former player who played as a midfielder. He is currently the interim head coach of Washington Spirit. As a player, Montoya spent two seasons with the San Jose ...

. She appeared for

in 6 games. In 2010, Abegg was picked up by

Washington Freedom Washington Freedom was an American professional soccer club based in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Germantown, Maryland, that participated in Women's Professional Soccer. The Freedom was founded in 2001 as a member of the defunct Women's Uni ...

as a developmental player. In 2011 and 2012 she played for

D.C. United Women D.C. United Women was an American soccer club based in Washington, D.C. that competed in the USL W-League, the second tier of women's soccer in the United States. The team was an affiliate of Major League Soccer club, D.C. United but operated i ...

of the W-League, and in early 2013 for the Gulf Coast Texans of the

Women's Premier Soccer League The Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL) is an amateur women's soccer league in the United States and Canada. It is the top amateur league for women's soccer in the United States soccer pyramid, below only National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). T ...

. Abegg captained D.C. United Women in both 2011 and 2012. On July 31, 2013, Abegg signed with the Washington Spirit as a free agent. She made a debut with the team later that night in a 3–0 loss to the Western New Flash. She retired from the Washington Spirit on February 14, 2014. In total for the Washington Spirit she started four games out of five appearances, recording 409 minutes of total play.

Retirement

On February 14, 2014 Marisa stated her retirement from professional soccer. She has planned to put her education first and help people in need through healthcare. Abegg is now working as the Director of Operation for Women's Soccer at San Diego State University. According to their website, she is entering her third season with the program.

Career statistics

Club career

International career

References

External links

Washington Spirit player profile

FC Gold Pride players Washington Freedom players Stanford Cardinal women's soccer players Sportspeople from Anchorage, Alaska American women's soccer players 1987 births Living people USL W-League (1995–2015) players D.C. United Women players Washington Spirit players National Women's Soccer League players Women's association football defenders Soccer players from Alaska Soccer players from Oregon Sportspeople from Lake Oswego, Oregon Lakeridge High School alumni Women's Professional Soccer players {{US-women-footy-bio-stub