Athena Marie Kuehn (; born July 27, 1999) is an American soccer player who plays for

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Personal life

Kuehn was born in Las Vegas on July 27, 1999, to Shay and Bernhard Kuehn and has a younger sister, Lola. She was raised in

Colorado Springs, Colorado Colorado Springs is the most populous city in El Paso County, Colorado, United States, and its county seat. The city had a population of 478,961 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, a 15.02% increase since 2010 United States Census, 2 ...

and attended

Pine Creek High School Pine Creek High School (PCHS) is a public high school in Academy School District 20 that serves the Pine Creek, Gleneagle, Black Forest, Northgate, Cordera, and Flying Horse Ranch neighborhoods of north Colorado Springs, Colorado. The school opene ...

, where she played in soccer, track, and cross country. Kuehn holds dual citizenship with the United States and Germany; her grandparents are German citizens living in the United States.

Career

University

Kuehn played for

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...

for four seasons, serving as the team captain in her final season. During her tenure, she scored three goals, three assists, and nine points total. In 2018, the team received a Big Ten Tournament title. She then joined the

Louisiana State University Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as Louisiana State University (LSU), is an American Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louis ...

soccer team for the fall 2021 season. While there, she scored three goals, three assists, and nine points total.

Professional

In early 2022, Kuehn signed with

FC Gintra FC Gintra is a Lithuanian women's football club from Šiauliai. History The club plays in the highest Lithuanian league, the A Lyga and has won 13 championships so far. The fourth one in 2005 and every championship since then. After its champion ...

and later signed with

Sporting de Huelva Sporting Club de Huelva is a Spanish women's association football, football club from Huelva, Andalusia. It was founded in Huelva in 2004 as a restructuring of an homonymous junior (men's) football club, which had been founded in 1979 and dissol ...

Honors

While at Pine Creek High School, Kuehn competed in four Colorado State Cup championships from 2013–16. Her senior year, she received all-conference and all-state honors.

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