Five notes from Seattle Reign's preseason roster
Seattle Reign today announced a 31-player preseason roster ahead of the 2025 NWSL preseason. The Reign will host their first training session on Monday, January 20, at Starfire Sports Complex. In February, the Reign will travel to California for the Coachella Valley Invitational to begin their competitive preseason schedule.
Here are five takeaways from the preseason roster.
Three players are still unavailable
Three players on the Reign's current roster are still unavailable. Defender Sofia Huerta will continue her loan with Olympique Lyonnais through June 2025 and defender Lily Woodham is on loan with Crystal Palace through the end of January. Reign general manager Lesle Gallimore told Ride of the Valkyries last week that the club might look to extend Woodham's loan to give her more playing time ahead of the Euros. Defender Ryanne Brown, who tore her ACL last summer, is still recovering from that season-ending injury (SEI).
Four non-roster invitees
The club has also invited four players to preseason camp as non-roster invitees, including midfielders Sofia Cedeno and Sally Menti and goalkeepers Macy Enneking and Maddie Prohaska.
Cedeno is a recent high school graduate who was born in Panama and moved to Dallas when she was 11. She plays for Solar SC in Texas, the same ECNL club that Reign players Emeri Adames and Ainsley McCammon represented, and was recently named an ECNL All-American. Cedeno is an attacking midfielder who graduated early from MacArthur High School, finishing her high school career with 92 goals and 60 assists in just three years. She committed to UCLA for the upcoming spring season and has extensive U.S. youth national team experience, most recently getting called up for a U-19 camp in October.
Menti is from Seattle, where she attended Roosevelt High School and played for Crossfire, making it to the nationals every year. At Santa Clara, she was named West Coast Conference Freshman of the Year and helped the team win the 2020 NCAA championship, leading Santa Clara in assists. Menti has been a member of several U.S. youth national teams and represented the U.S. in the 2022 U-20 World Cup – starting in all three group-stage games. Menti primarily played attacking midfield in college but can play anywhere in the midfield. She finished college with 11 goals and 24 assists in 74 games and was named First Team All-WCC in 2023 and 2024.
Enneking became the starting goalkeeper at Iowa in the second half of her freshman season, leading the Big Ten Conference in goals against average and keeping 6 clean sheets in 10 games. In her final college season, Enneking made a career-high 59 saves and kept 11.5 clean sheets in 22 games, helping Iowa make the third round of the NCAA tournament for the first time. She left Iowa as the program leader in career wins (41) and shutouts (33.5) and had an 84% save percentage and 0.644 goals-against average.
Prohaska also set records at Auburn University, becoming the career leader in shutouts (36), which ranks third in SEC history. In her final season, she recorded a 0.75 goals-against average with 32 saves. Across her five years at Auburn, she had a 77% save percentage and a 0.925 goals-against average.
The league allows a maximum of 26 players on a roster, and the Reign currently have 27 players signed – although Huerta, Woodham, and Brown don't count until their loans end or they are removed from the SEI list. That means, barring any other moves from the club, the Reign have just two open roster spots. One will need to be filled by a goalkeeper, as NWSL clubs must have three on their rosters at all times. The other appears up for grabs.
Four returning free agents
The roster includes four Reign players who were eligible for free agency and re-signed during the offseason: club originals Lauren Barnes and Jess Fishlock, defender Hanna Glas and midfielder Maddie Mercado.
Glas also obtained a green card and no longer occupies an international roster spot. That means the Reign currently has one open international spot, although if Woodham returns she will require it.
Five new signings
Heading into the 2025 campaign, the Reign added five new signings to help bolster the roster. That includes four-time NWSL champion and NWSL’s all-time leading goal scorer Lynn Williams, goalkeeper Cassie Miller, and free-agent defender Madison Curry. The club also recently signed college players Maddie Dahlien and Emily Mason, who are currently at the U.S. Women's National Team Futures Camp until January 21.
An increasingly younger roster
While the team still has several veterans with significant club and international experience, the Reign will start the preseason with 14 signed players who are 25 years or younger. That includes Claudia Dickey in goal, who just received her first call-up to the senior U.S. women's national team. Centerback Jordyn Bugg, who is just 18, should continue to get significant minutes, while 23-year-old Curry is also an addition to the backline.
Veterans Ji So-Yun, Jess Fishlock, and Angharad James-Turner are surrounded by players under 25 in the midfield, while the frontline features a mix of young talent and veterans like Williams and Ana-Maria Crnogorčević, who is Switzerland's all-time leading goal-scorer.
Current Seattle Reign FC Roster by Position:
Goalkeepers (4): Claudia Dickey, Cassie Miller, Macy Enneking (NRI), Maddie Prohaska (NRI)
Defenders (11): Lauren Barnes, Ryanne Brown (SEI), Jordyn Bugg, Madison Curry, Hanna Glas, Shae Holmes, Sofia Huerta (LOAN), Julia Lester, Emily Mason, Phoebe McClernon, Lily Woodham (LOAN)
Midfielders (9): Sofia Cedeno (NRI), Jess Fishlock, Angharad James-Turner (INT), Ainsley McCammon, Sally Menti (NRI), Maddie Mercado, Sam Meza, Ji So-Yun (INT), Olivia Van der Jagt
Forwards (7): Emeri Adames, Ana-Maria Crnogorčević (INT), Maddie Dahlien, Jordyn Huitema (INT), Veronica Latsko, Nérilia Mondésir (INT), Lynn Williams
INT – International Player | LOAN – Player on Loan | NRI – Non-roster invitee