Ashley Nick
![]() Nick (left) with FC Twente in 2011 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Ashley Lynn Nick | ||
Date of birth | October 27, 1987 | ||
Place of birth | Monrovia, California, United States | ||
Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
2001–2004 | Arcadia High School | ||
College career | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2005–2008 | USC Trojans | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2010–2012 | FC Twente | 37 | (3) |
2012–2013 | Arna-Bjørnar | 7 | (1) |
2013 | Pali Blues | 15 | (8) |
2013–2014 | Sky Blue FC | 25 | (1) |
2013 | → Zorky Krasnogorsk (loan) | 8 | (0) |
2015 | Houston Dash | 3 | (0) |
2015 | Western New York Flash | 13 | (0) |
2015–2016 | Apollon Limassol | 6 | (5) |
2016 | Sky Blue FC | 3 | (0) |
2018–2019 | Juventus | 7 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 8 july 2019 |
Ashley Lynn Nick (born October 27, 1987)[1][2] is an American footballer.
Club career
She moved from USC to Europe to play for FC Twente. There she won the 2010–11 Eredivisie title. In 2012, she moved to Toppserien side Arna-Bjørnar before moving back in 2013 to the United States by joining Pali Blues and later joined Sky Blue FC.[3] On December 12, 2014, she was traded to the Houston Dash for a draft position in the second and fourth rounds of the 2015 NWSL College Draft.[1][2] On May 11, 2015, she was traded to the Western New York Flash for Defender Toni Pressley.[4]
In the 2015–16 American off-season Nick scored five goals in six Cypriot First Division games with Apollon Limassol.[5] She signed with Sky Blue FC in March 2016 and announced she would be leaving Sky Blue FC June 9, 2016.[6]
On September 27, 2018, she joined Italian Serie A (women's football) club Juventus F.C. Women.
Nick studied to be an Elementary Teacher at USC. She comes from a famous American Football family. Her Uncles Bruce and Clay Matthews both played 19 years in the NFL, Bruce is in the NFL Hall of Fame. She went to USC, where she captained her team to a National Championship, with her cousin Clay Matthews who currently plays in the NFL for the LA Rams. Her Cousin Jake Matthews currently plays for the falcons.
Honours
Club
Winner
- Eredivisie: 2010–2011
Runner-up
- Eredivisie: 2011–2012
- BeNe Super Cup: 2011–2012
References
- ^ a b "Houston Dash acquire rights to midfielder Ashley Nick from Sky Blue FC" (Press release). Houston Dash Communications. December 12, 2014. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
- ^ a b "Houston Dash Acquire Rights to Midfielder Ashley Nick" (Press release). National Women's Soccer League. December 12, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
- ^ "USC's Ashley Nick Signs With Sky Blue FC". usctrojans.com. August 2, 2013. Archived from the original on August 26, 2014. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
- ^ "Houston Dash acquire defender Toni Pressley from Western New York Flash". Houston Dynamo.
- ^ "ASHLEY LYNN NICK" (in Greek). Cyprus Football Association. Archived from the original on October 11, 2016. Retrieved August 21, 2016.
- ^ "Sky Blue FC Signs Midfielder Ashley Nick".
External links
- Ashley Nick profile at National Women's Soccer League
- Ashley Nick profile at Sky Blue FC
- Ashley Nick profile at Houston Dash
- Ashley Nick at Soccerway
- Profile at soccerdonna.de (in German)
- 1987 births
- Living people
- LGBT sportspeople from the United States
- American women's soccer players
- LGBT association football players
- Houston Dash players
- Sky Blue FC (NWSL) players
- Apollon Ladies F.C. players
- Pali Blues players
- Expatriate women's footballers in Russia
- American expatriate sportspeople in Russia
- FC Zorky Krasnogorsk (women) players
- National Women's Soccer League players
- People from Monrovia, California
- Soccer players from California
- Women's association football midfielders
- Western New York Flash (NWSL) players
- USC Trojans women's soccer players
- FC Twente (women) players
- Expatriate women's footballers in the Netherlands
- Expatriate women's footballers in Cyprus
- Arna-Bjørnar players
- Toppserien players
- Eredivisie (women) players
- Expatriate women's footballers in Norway
- American expatriate sportspeople in Norway
- American expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus
- American expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
- LGBT people from California
- Juventus F.C. (women) players
- Expatriate women's footballers in Italy
- American expatriate sportspeople in Italy
- American expatriate soccer players
- Lesbian sportswomen
- American women's soccer biography stubs