The San Diego Wave return to regular season action 57 days after their last home game in the NWSL regular season. The team will face Angel City FC for the third time this season, and the second time in the regular season. Their last meeting was on August 1 at Titan Stadium as part of the Liga MX Summer Cup.
Tonight’s game will be broadcast live nationally on CBS, locally on CW and live streamed on Paramount+.
The San Diego Wave return to regular season action 57 days after their last home game in the NWSL regular season. The team will face Angel City FC for the third time this season, and the second time in the regular season. Their last meeting was on August 1 at Titan Stadium as part of the Liga MX Summer Cup.
Tonight’s game will be broadcast live nationally on CBS, locally on CW and live streamed on Paramount+.
Notes on the roster:
- Goalkeeper Kailen Sheridan begins their 17th regular season game and currently has five clean sheets in the NWSL regular season.
- On the defensive side, Kristen McNabb begins her 13th game of the regular season and just scored her first goal of the year in the Wave’s recent Concacaf W Champions Cup appearance against Santa Fe FC on Tuesday night.
- Rookie defender Wesley Kennedy-Kristin is in the starting lineup for the seventh time this season and currently has an 82% pass completion rate in NWSL regular season games.
- captain Abby Dahlkemper is starting her 12th regular season game and has played a total of 1,035 minutes in the regular season so far.
- Swedish international Hanna Lundqvist starts her 15th game of the year and most recently recorded an assist in the Wave’s most recent appearance in Concacaf W Champions Cup play in Panama.
- Emily van Egmond will start her 10th game of the season, with a total of 16 regular season appearances, when the midfielder returns after the Olympics.
- Southern California native Makenzy Doniak is starting her ninth game of the regular season and has scored a total of three goals this year.
- Mel Barcenas is making her first start in the NWSL regular season. The San Diego native started the Wave’s most recent Concacaf W Champions Cup match on Tuesday.
- On the outside flank Sofia Jakobsson is entering her sixth game of the regular season and has scored one goal so far this year.
- beginner Julia B. is in the starting line-up for the ninth time and has scored one goal so far this season.
- Mid-season acquisition Maria Sanchez has already scored two goals for San Diego this season, after scoring in the Wave’s most recent game against Santa Fe FC.
- On the bench are goalkeepers Morgan Messner and Hillary Beall, defender Christen Westphal and strikers Alex Morgan, Amirah Ali, Elyse Bennett and New signing Delphine Cascarino.
- Defenders Kaitlyn Torpey (lower leg) and Naomi Girma (excused absence), midfielders Savannah McCaskill (lower leg), Kimmi Ascanio (lower leg) and Danny Colaprico (thigh) and forwards Kyra Carusa (thigh) and Jaedyn Shaw (thigh) are unavailable for today’s game.
- Despite her unavailability for the game, Olympic gold medalist Jaedyn Shaw And Naomi Girma will be in attendance at tonight’s game, having recently returned to San Diego following their 2024 gold medal campaign in Paris.
