About Casey Short, Soccer Player
''Casey Short'' is well known as an American Soccer player who is best known as an Association Football Player. Currently, she plays as a defender for the Chicago Red Stars in ''National Women's Soccer League'' (NWSL) as a guardian and symbolizes the United States of America on a global level. Formerly, Casey played Boston Breakers and with the Avaldsnes soccer team in Norway. Casey has over 30 caps for the United States women's national soccer team as of May 2020. Before coming into the team, she played for ''Avaldsnes IL'' in Norway's top-division league, Toppserien, and was named a Top XI player in the league. She was the 5th overall pick in the 2013 NWSL College Draft. Recently, her late goal helps the Red Stars to their 1st NWSL Challenge Cup victory. At this point in their first tournament in 2020, the Red Stars will take offense from anywhere in their lineup. Through the first three games in Herriman, Utah, the team had only managed a single goal. She broke a scoreless tie in the 85th minute with a header goal that would give the Red Stars a 1-0 victory over Utah Royals FC. The team now sits in a five-way tie for third place in the tournament standings, which will determine to seed for the upcoming knockout round. Her game-winner came on a strong pass from Savannah McCaskill, who put it in the air to the side of the net, allowing short to rise up and head the ball into the back of the net. It was the first score for the Red Stars since Morgan Gautrat had a goal early in the second half against the Washington Spirit in their tournament opener on June 27th. The team failed to score in a draw against Portland and a 1-0 loss to North Carolina in their previous two games. Scroll down to know more about her full biography, engagement, net worth, parents, nationality, position, birthday, age, facts, wiki, stats, transfer, injury, and more.
Famous For
- Being named PARADE All-American in 2008.
- For winning CONCACAF Women's Championship (2018).
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Early Life of Casey Short
Soccer player, Short was born on 23rd October 1990 in Naperville, Illinois, USA. Casey climbed up in her hometown together with her parents Kerwin (father) and LeeShelle (mother). Her nationality is American whereas her race is black. Sun sign of Casey Short is Scorpio. Casey Short born name is ''Casey Marie Short''. She celebrates her birthday every year on 23rd October. Casey is going to celebrate her 30th birthday on this 23rd of October. She is educated from Naperville Central High School where she earned 4.0 honor roll recognition and was named an Illinois State Scholar. Casey was ranked a top-rated soccer recruit by the Chicago Sun-Times in 2008. Casey was the first girl in Illinois history to win both runs Class AA track in the same year. In May 2017, she was named ''Chicago Tribune Toyota Athlete'' of the Week. Short played for the ''Chicago Red Eleven'' of the ''USL W-League''.
Soccer Career of Casey Short
- She kickoff her career at Florida State Seminoles in 2008.
- She ended at Florida State University where she played for the Florida State Seminoles women's soccer team, earned her bachelor's degree in Criminology with a minor in Sociology, and was a six times member of the Dean's list and earned a master's degree in Sports Management too.
- Before being eliminated in the quarterfinals by Notre Dame, she played in all four games of the 2008 ''NCAA College Cup''.
- Despite of injury, she ranked sixth in assists in the ''Atlantic Coast Conference'' (ACC) in 2009 and finished her junior season ranked fourth on the team in assists with three in 2010.
- She started in all of the team's five games at the ''2012 NCAA College Cup'' and notched two assists and was named to the NSCAA Southeast All-Region First Team, NSCAA Scholar All-American Second Team, NSCAA South Scholar All-Region First Team, Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-District IV First Team, All-ACC Second Team.
- Casey earned ACC Academic Honor Roll four times and was named to FSU’s President’s List twice.
- In 2013 NWSL College Draft, she was selected by the Boston Breakers as the 5th overall pick but did not compete due during the 2013 season due to knee injury.
- Casey was acquired by the Chicago Red Stars ahead of the 2014 season but again she suffered another season-ending injury before the 2014 season started.
- She signed with the ''Avaldsnes Football Club'' in 2015 and earned 27 caps for the team in the same season.
- Chicago Red Stars signed Casey to compete in the 2016 NWSL season after a successful stint in 2015 with Avaldsnes in Norway.
- Short was named to the league's Second XI team for the season because she was a starting defender in every match of the 2016 season and scored two goals.
- She competed in 22 regular-season games for the Red Stars in 2017 and was named to the NWSL Team of the Month for May, June, and July but at the end of the season, Casey was named to the 2017 ''NWSL Best XI''.
- After sustaining an ankle injury while playing for the national team in the ''2018 SheBelieves Cup'' she missed the first 10 games of the ''2018 NWSL season''.
- Recently, she scored in the 85th minute and the Chicago Red Stars beat the Utah Royals 1-0 on Sunday night in the National Women's Soccer League's Challenge Cup.
- Short's header off Savannah McCaskill's cross gave the Red Stars their first win of the group stage at Zions Bank Stadium. U.S. national team goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher got three saves in the shutout, and now has 11 saves in four Challenge Cup games.
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International Career of Casey Short
- Regarding the international career of Casey Short, she has represented for the United States on the senior national team as well as numerous youth national teams, including under-16, under-17, under-20, and under-23 with the help of Casey Short.
- At the ''2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup'' in Germany, Short competed with the United States under-20 women's national soccer team.
- On 6th October 2016, received her first international call up to the senior team by head coach 'Jill Ellis' and made her senior international debut on 19th October, playing all 90 minutes against Switzerland women's national football team.
- She competed with the national team at the Tournament of Nations, where she played in eight matches, starting two in 2018.
- During the 2018 ''CONCACAF Women's Championship'', she served one assist, helping the U.S. qualify for the ''2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France, Casey played both games.
- She was named to the roster for Victory Tour games against Portugal when US World Cup win in August.
- In October 2019, Casey was named to her first training camp roster and first friendly matches against Sweden and Portugal after Vlatko Andonovski was named head coach of the national team.
- She was named to the roster for the ''2020 She Believes Cup'' in February 2020.
- Casey was a substitute in the 61st minute and helped the team win 3-1 during the US final match against Japan.
Awards / Honors / Achievements of Casey Short
- SheBelieves Cup (2018) (2020)
- CONCACAF Women's Championship (2018)
- Toppserien Best XI (2015)
- NWSL Best XI (2017,2019)
- NWSL Second XI (2016)
- NWSL Team of the Month (April 2019) (June 2019)
Personal Life of Casey Short
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Soccer player Casey Short has managed to keep some parts of her personal life pretty private so there is no information on what her childhood was like either. Hope she is focusing on her career. But in May 2020, she announced her engagement to long-term boyfriend ''Cody Krueger'' who is an emergency medicine physician. Wish their relation will remain good in the future. Talking about her sexual orientation she is straight.
Net Worth of Casey Short
As a professional soccer player, she earns a decent amount of money from her profession. Casey's net worth is estimated at over $1 million whereas her salary is under a review. But as of 2020, his net worth and salary are unknown. She has managed to earn quite a fortune for herself. Her source of income is from soccer. Hope, Short is enjoying her handsome salary and impressive net worth.
Body Measurement of Casey Short
The height of a beautiful soccer player, Casey is 5 ft and 8 inches or 1.73 m whereas her body weight is unknown. Furthermore, Short has beautiful brown eyes and brown hair. Other different body measures of Casey is unknown up to the date.
