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Alexa Spaanstra returns for 2025 after impressing the Thorns staff when she came in near the end of the regular season and will look to continue developing her strengths up top.
Before her trade transfer to Portland in August 2024, Spaanstra’s first two NWSL seasons saw her with Kansas City Current where she made regular appearances off the bench and contributed three goals and two assists.
She earned her career as a professional player through the 2023 NWSL College Draft, selected as a first-round pick (#10) from Virginia University. As a Cavalier, Spaanstra posted dominant numbers, starting all 107 of her matches to score 37 goals and assist 34 to post a whooping 104 points. She led Virginia to an ACC Regular Season title in 2021 and five consecutive NCAA DI Women’s Soccer Tournament appearances, advancing to the Round of 16 four times (2018, 2020, 2021, 2022) and reaching the College Cup in 2020.
Spaanstra played for the U.S. at two youth FIFA Women’s World Cup (2018 U-20 and 2016 U-17) while also representing her country at the U-14, U-19 and U-23 level. She was a member of the United States sides that won the 2016 CONCACAF Women’s U-17 Championship and 2020 CONCACAF Women’s U-20 Championship.
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