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Midge Purce

Midge Purce

NWSL Champion
Senior National Team
BirthdaySep 18, 1995
HometownSilver Spring, Maryland
Height5'4"
CollegeHarvard University
PronounsShe/Her
Years in League8
Acquired
2020-01-01 from Portland Thorns

PRO HONORS

2023: NWSL Championship MVP; 2021: NWSL Best XI, MVP finalist

PROFESSIONAL
2024 (Gotham FC): Suffered a season-ending injury in the opening match of the 2024 NWSL season. 2023 (Gotham FC): Named MVP of the NWSL championship match for her two-assist performance in winning the title. The forward appeared in 12 matches with eight starts in the 2023 regular season, notching four goals and two assists. 2022 (Gotham FC): Scored four goals in her 21 appearances. 2021 (Gotham FC): Started in all 18 games, earning NWSL Best XI honors. She was a finalist for NWSL MVP and tied for second in the NWSL with nine goals. 2020 (Gotham FC): Purce was traded to Gotham FC in January 2020, making nine appearances and totaling one goal and two assists. 2018-19 (Portland Thorns): Selected with the No. 4 pick in the 2018 NWSL Dispersal Draft and scored eight goals and had an assist in her 44 appearances with the team. 2017 (Boston Breakers): Purce was selected with the No. 9 pick in the NWSL Draft to the Boston Breakers, tallying one goal and two assists in 22 appearances.


COLLEGE
2013-16 (Harvard): Played 69 matches, starting in 63 of them. She scored 42 goals and had 12 assists. She ended her collegiate career as the third all-time scorer in school history and was the two-time Ivy League Player of the Year. She was named to the 2016 All-America First Team and was a 2016 MAC Hermann semifinalist. Named All-Ivy League first team four times and 2013 Ivy League Rookie of the Year (First rookie to be awarded POTY in league history) and NSCAA/Continental Tire Women’s All-American Third Team.

INTERNATIONAL
2024: W Gold Cup champion. 2022: Made 11 appearances, scoring two goals and adding one assist. 2021: Scored her first senior national team goal amid seven appearances, eventually compiling two goals and two assists. 2019-20: Received her first USWNT cap in 2019. 2015-18: Represented the U.S. U-23 Youth National Team. 2013-14: Purce made four appearances and three starts in the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup, scoring a goal against Mexico during the 2014 Concacaf U-20 Championship. 2011-12: Played in the 2012 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup.

PERSONAL
Purce co-founded and currently serves as a board member for the Black Women's Players Collective, a nonprofit with the goal of advancing opportunities for black girls in sport. In 2023, she was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list in sports category for her work with the Black Women’s Players Collective.

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