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Brittany Mahomes
Personal information
Full name Brittany Lynne Mahomes
Birth name Brittany Lynne Matthews
Date of birth (1995-09-01) September 1, 1995 (age 29)[1]
Place of birth Whitehouse, Texas, U.S.
Height 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
2009–2013 Whitehouse High School
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2016 UT-Tyler 74 (31)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2017 UMF Afturelding 5 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Brittany Lynne Mahomes (née Matthews, born September 1, 1995) is an American sports team owner and retired women's soccer forward who last played for UFM Afturelding when it competed in Iceland's 2. deild kvenna. She is a founding co-owner of the Kansas City Current, a team in the American professional top-division National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).

Early life

Mahomes attended Whitehouse High School in Whitehouse, Texas. In her senior year, she was an All-East Texas forward with 22 goals and five assists.[2]

Collegiate career

Texas-Tyler Patriots, 2013–2016

Mahomes did not expect to play collegiate soccer after graduating from high school, but played at the University of Texas-Tyler for the Texas-Tyler Patriots women's soccer team after speaking to players she knew there. At Texas-Tyler, Mahomes was reunited with Whitehouse High School teammate Chestley Strother.[3]

The Patriots were invited to the 2014 and 2015 NCAA Division III Women's Soccer Championships, losing to the Trinity University Tigers in the first round in 2014 and drawing 1–1 against Trinity in the first round of 2015 after extra time. Despite Mahomes scoring from the penalty spot in the ensuing penalty shoot-out, the Patriots lost the shoot-out 3–4.[4]

On October 13, 2016, Mahomes became the first player to score three hat-tricks in both a season and a career in the program;[5] she finished the season with four.[6] As of 2023, Mahomes's 78 total points, 31 goals, and 111 shots on goal were each the second-most by a player in Texas-Tyler history, trailing only Strother in points.[7][3] Her 40 points and 18 goals during her 2016 senior season were single-season program records,[8][9] and her seven-point matches on September 17, 2016, and October 15, 2016, were single-match program records.[6] She graduated from Texas-Tyler with a bachelor's degree in kinesiology.[3]

Club career

UFM Afturelding, 2017

In May 2017, Mahomes signed with Icelandic club UFM Afturelding when it competed in Iceland's third-tier 2. deild kvenna. Strother, her Whitehouse High and Texas-Tyler teammate, had already signed with another team in the league.[3] Mahomes scored two goals in five appearances over her first and only season,[10] and UMF Afturelding won the league and earned promotion to 1. deild kvenna.[11] The club did not extend a new contract to Mahomes after the season.[12]

Entrepreneurship

Mahomes retired from soccer in 2017 and returned to Kansas City to become a personal trainer. She sold exercise programs on Brittany Lynne Fitness, an online service, that she promotes as a social media influencer.[13]

Sports ownership

Kansas City Current, 2020—

On December 7, 2020, the National Women's Soccer League awarded an expansion team to an ownership group including Mahomes. The club, initially named Kansas City NWSL, took on the player contracts and draft picks of Utah Royals FC, effectively relocating the team.[14] In October 2021, Mahomes announced the team's re-branding as the Kansas City Current and plans to build a stadium for the team on the Berkeley Park Riverfront of Kansas City, Missouri, and participated in its October 2022 groundbreaking ceremony.[15] Mahomes also helped fund the Current's training facility, which opened in June 2022.[16]

Personal life

Patrick Mahomes II, left, and Brittany Mahomes in 2020.

Brittany Mahomes married Patrick Mahomes II, whom she had dated since high school,[3][17] in 2022.[18] They have two children, a daughter and a son.[8] Patrick Mahomes later joined Brittany Mahomes as a minority-stake owner of the Kansas City Current.[19]

Brittany Mahomes's stepfather Paul died on November 11, 2018, at Arrowhead Stadium.[20]

References

  1. ^ Hendricks, Jaclyn (September 1, 2022). "Patrick Mahomes celebrates wife Brittany Matthews' 27th birthday with intimate dinner". New York Post. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  2. ^ Parry, Chris (May 30, 2013). "All-ET Girls Soccer: Henderson is unanimous Player of the Year". Tyler Morning Telegraph. Retrieved April 21, 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d e Hicks, Phil (May 15, 2017). "UT Tyler's Matthews signs with Iceland team". Tyler Morning Telegraph. Retrieved April 21, 2023.
  4. ^ Wright, Nathan (November 14, 2015). "Patriots fall to Trinity in shootout". Tyler Morning Telegraph. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  5. ^ "Matthews hat trick helps UT Tyler soccer sweep Belhaven". Tyler Morning Telegraph. October 13, 2016. Retrieved April 21, 2023.
  6. ^ a b "Texas-Tyler Women's Soccer Individual Season Records" (PDF). Texas-Tyler Patriots. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  7. ^ "Texas-Tyler Women's Soccer Individual Career Records" (PDF). Texas-Tyler Patriots. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  8. ^ a b "How Brittany Mahomes went from pro soccer standout to NFL wife". Marca. January 3, 2023. Retrieved April 21, 2023.
  9. ^ "Texas-Tyler Women's Soccer Individual Season Records" (PDF). Texas-Tyler Patriots. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  10. ^ "Brittany Matthews". KSí. Retrieved April 21, 2023.
  11. ^ "2. deild kvenna: Fjölnir í dauðafæri að komast upp" [Women's 2nd division: Fjolnir in a dead end to get promoted]. Fótbolti.net (in Icelandic). September 2, 2017. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  12. ^ Gunnarsson, Henry Birgir (September 24, 2018). "Nýjasta ofurstjarna NFL-deildarinnar gisti í blokk í Mosfellsbæ fyrir ári síðan" [The NFL's newest superstar stayed in a block of flats in Mosfellsbær a year ago]. Vísir (in Icelandic). Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  13. ^ Nair, Deepesh (August 23, 2022). "Patrick Mahomes' Wife Brittany Matthews Once Confessed Why She Gave Up Her Professional Soccer Career in Europe to Stay in Kansas City". Essentially Sports. Retrieved April 21, 2023.
  14. ^ "NWSL expansion team ownership in Kansas City includes Patrick Mahomes' fiancée". USA Today. Associated Press. December 7, 2020. Retrieved April 21, 2023.
  15. ^ "Current event: Groundbreaking for new stadium in Kansas City". The Kansas City Star. October 7, 2022. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  16. ^ Hruby, Emma (June 22, 2022). "Kansas City Current unveils new $18 million training facility". Just Women's Sports. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  17. ^ Grathoff, Pete (September 1, 2020). "Patrick Mahomes, girlfriend Brittany Matthews are engaged". The Kansas City Star. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  18. ^ Colbert, Claire (March 13, 2022). "Patrick Mahomes marries high school sweetheart Brittany Matthews". CNN. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  19. ^ "Patrick Mahomes joins the Kansas City Current's ownership group". KMBC News 9. January 10, 2023. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  20. ^ Hicks, Phil (November 11, 2018). "Stepfather of Mahomes' girlfriend dies after medical emergency at Chiefs game". Tyler Morning Telegraph. Retrieved April 24, 2023.

See also

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