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Heather MacNab
American soccer player (born 2001) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Heather MacNab (born October 9, 2001) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for the North Carolina Courage of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). She played college soccer for the Princeton Tigers.
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Early life
MacNab grew up in Carmel, Indiana, north of Indianapolis.[2] She attended Culver Academies, earning three-time MVP honors and two-time all-state honors on the soccer team.[3] She played club soccer for FC Pride.[3] She committed to play college soccer at Princeton before her junior year.[4]
College career
When the Ivy League cancelled fall sports due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, MacNab took a gap year before starting college. The following summer, she played for Lady Victory FC in the Women's Premier Soccer League.[2] In her freshman season at Princeton, MacNab led the team with 7 assists and scored 3 goals in 19 games in 2021.[3] She earned honorable mention All-Ivy honors as a sophomore after scoring a career-high 6 goals with 2 assists in 17 games in 2022.[3] She then played in the summer with USL W League club Indy Eleven.[5]
MacNab dealt with injury to start her junior year in 2023, finishing the season with 2 goals and 6 assists in 19 games.[3][6] Though listed on the roster as a forward, she was deployed all over the field by head coach Sean Driscoll in her first few seasons before establishing herself as the starting left back in her senior year in 2024.[6][7] One of the team's captains, she started 17 games and recorded 2 goals and 9 assists, earning first-team All-Ivy honors.[3] She assisted both goals in the 2–0 win against Brown in the Ivy League tournament final.[7]
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Club career
MacNab joined the North Carolina Courage as a trialist in the 2025 preseason.[8] On March 21, the Courage announced that the club had signed MacNab to a short-term contract as an injury replacement player.[9] After the deal expired in April, she stayed with the Courage as a training player, and in September, she signed a contract for the remainder of the season.[10] MacNab made her professional debut on September 13, 2025, coming on as a stoppage-time substitute for Manaka Matsukubo in a 2–1 victory over Angel City FC.[11]
Honors and awards
Princeton Tigers
Individual
- First-team All-Ivy: 2024
References
External links
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