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Kate Faasse

American soccer player (born 2004) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kate Faasse
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Kate Louis Faasse (born June 4, 2004) is an American college soccer player who plays as a forward or midfielder for the North Carolina Tar Heels. In her junior season, she helped lead the Tar Heels to the 2024 national championship, ending a 12-year drought. She won multiple national player of the year awards, including the Hermann Trophy, after leading the nation with 20 goals.

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Early life

Faasse was born in Phoenix, Arizona, to Shelley and Adrian Faasse.[1] She scored 28 goals with 10 assists as a sophomore at Pinnacle High School in Phoenix before missing her junior season due to injury.[1][2] In her senior year, she captained Pinnacle and led the team with 31 goals and 12 assists, earning the conference offensive player of the year award.[1][2] She also committed to the University of North Carolina that year.[2] She played ECNL soccer for SC del Sol, which she also captained.[1][3]

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College career

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After two years with limited minutes, sitting behind players like Ally Sentnor and Avery Patterson and scoring 4 goals in 40 appearances, Faasse stepped into a starting role for the North Carolina Tar Heels in her junior season in 2024.[4] She scored twice in the last three minutes of her second start to pull off a 3–2 come-from-behind win against Colorado.[5] She scored 7 goals in 10 games during the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) regular season.[6] In the ACC tournament first round, she scored her third brace by way of one penalty and one header as the Tar Heels won 2–0 against Virginia Tech.[4] She did the same for her fourth brace in the ACC tournament final, giving the team a 2–1 lead over Florida State before falling 3–2.[7] She scored four goals in the NCAA tournament, including a golden goal in the 2–1 quarterfinal win against Penn State and a penalty in the 3–0 semifinal win against Duke.[8] North Carolina defeated Wake Forest 1–0 in the final, winning its 23rd national title and first since 2012.[9]

Faasse finished her junior season as NCAA Division I's leading scorer with 20 goals in 27 games, the most by a Tar Heel since Casey Nogueira in 2008.[8] Her eight game-winning goals also led the nation.[1] She was named first-team All-ACC and first-team All-American; won the TopDrawerSoccer National Player of the Year award, the Hermann Trophy (the first Tar Heel winner since Crystal Dunn in 2012), and the Honda Sports Award for soccer; and was nominated for the Best Female College Athlete ESPY Award.[8][10]

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International career

Faasse was called into training camp with the United States under-14 team in 2018 and virtual training with the under-18 team in 2021.[11][12] She was called up by Emma Hayes into Futures Camp, practicing alongside the senior national team, in January 2025.[13]

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