Match Preview: Annual January Camp Kicks Off 2026 in California

The U.S. Women’s National Team begins 2026 in the sunshine of California with its annual January training camp, which is being held at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. The camp, which runs from Jan. 17-27, will finish with two international matches, on Jan. 24 against Paraguay at DHSP (2:30 p.m. PT / 5:30 p.m. ET on TNT, truTV and HBO Max in English, on Universo and Peacock in Spanish, on Westwood One radio in English and on Futbol de Primera radio in Spanish) and against Chile on Jan. 27 at Harder Stadium in Santa Barbara, Calif. (7 p.m. PT / 10 p.m. ET on TBS and HBO Max in English, Universo and Peacock in Spanish, and on the radio in English on Westwood One and in Spanish on Futbol de Primera). The USWNT has played at DHSP 21 times since 2003 while this will be the first full international match for the USWNT at Harder Stadium. The two matches mark the beginning of the USWNT’s 41st year of competition. 

U.S. WOMEN’S NATIONAL TEAM ROSTER BY POSITION (CLUB; CAPS/GOALS)

2026 January Training Camp Roster

GOALKEEPERS (3): Claudia Dickey (Seattle Reign FC; 6) Mandy McGlynn (Utah Royals; 4), Jordan Silkowitz (Bay FC; 0)

DEFENDERS (8): Jordyn Bugg (Seattle Reign FC; 5/0), Ayo Oke (Denver Summit; 0/0), Izzy Rodriguez (Kansas City Current; 1/1), Tara Rudd (Washington Spirit; 9/0), Emily Sams (Angel City FC; 7/0), Gisele Thompson (Angel City FC; 4/0), Kennedy Wesley (San Diego Wave FC; 2/0), Kate Wiesner (Washington Spirit; 2/0) 

MIDFIELDERS (8): Croix Bethune (Washington Spirit; 5/0), Hal Hershfelt (Washington Spirit; 3/0), Claire Hutton (Kansas City Current; 11/1), Riley Jackson (North Carolina Courage; 0/0), Lo’eau LaBonta (Kansas City Current; 4/0), Sally Menti (Seattle Reign FC; 0/0), Sam Meza (Seattle Reign FC; 2/0), Olivia Moultrie (Portland Thorns FC; 11/5)

FORWARDS (7): Maddie Dahlien (Seattle Reign FC; 0/0), Jameese Joseph (Chicago Stars FC; 1/0), Trinity Rodman (Washington Spirit; 47/11), Yazmeen Ryan (Houston Dash; 15/2), Emma Sears (Racing Louisville FC; 12/4), Ally Sentnor (Kansas City Current; 13/4), Reilyn Turner (Portland Thorns FC; 0/0)

27 DEBUTS IN 30 GAMES: U.S. head coach Emma Hayes has given 27 players their international debuts since June of 2024. In matches when at least one player debuted, the U.S. is 17W-0L-1D, including Hayes’ first three matches at the helm, where three players made their debuts and the USWNT won all three matches. At the end of 2025, Hayes had given 27 debuts in 29 matches. Hayes has given 31 players their first USWNT call-ups, but she also gave a first cap to two players who did not get a first call-up under her, as Lily Yohannes earned her first call-up under interim head coach Twila Kilgore but did not see action in any matches (Eva Gaetino is the other). The 27 players who have earned their first caps under Emma Hayes are: Sam Staab, Lily Yohannes, Croix Bethune, Yazmeen Ryan, Hal Hershfelt, Emily Sams, Emma Sears, Mandy McGlynn, Alyssa Malonson, Eva Gaetino, Ally Sentnor, Tara McKeown, Michelle Cooper, Gisele Thompson, Claire Hutton, Phallon Tullis-Joyce, Avery Patterson, Lo’eau LaBonta, Kerry Abello, Claudia Dickey, Lilly Reale, Jordyn Bugg, Sam Meza, Izzy Rodriguez, Kennedy Wesley, Jameese Joseph and Kate Wiesner. This camp might be the last time that number goes significantly up as Riley Jackson, Sally Menti, Maddie Dahlien, Reilyn Turner, Ayo Oke and Jordan Silkowitz will be looking to make their international debuts. For the remainder of the camps in 2026, Hayes will be narrowing down the pool to more consistent, World Cup-qualifying focused rosters. 

RODMAN RETURNS: Trinity Rodman is back on the roster after on-and-off injuries kept her away from most international play in 2025. The California native has 12 goals and nine assists across 47 appearances for the USWNT, including three goals en route to the 2024 Olympic gold medal. In the run to the gold medal, Rodman shouldered much of the attacking responsibilities alongside fellow forwards Mallory Swanson and Sophia Wilson. The trio nicknamed themselves “Triple Espresso” toward the end of the Olympics and wreaked havoc on backlines throughout the tournament where the undeniable Rodman had an assist in addition to her three goals. In her lone U.S. match of 2025, Rodman made a big impact, scoring what was ultimately the game winner just six minutes into the 2-0 win over Brazil on April 5. With both World Cup and Olympic experience under her belt, the speedy forward is the most-capped player on the roster. 

NO PLACE LIKE HOME: The Dignity Health Sports in Carson, Calif., has been a bit of a home field for the USWNT. Not only has the stadium hosted the most USWNT matches of any venue in the world, nine players on this roster hail from the Southern California region. In addition to Trinity Rodman, who hails from Laguna Niguel, Tara Rudd (formerly McKeown) is from Newbury Park, Kate Wiesner hails from Monrovia and Kennedy Wesley calls Seal Beach home. Lo’eau LaBonta is from the Inland Empire in Rancho Cucamonga, El Cajon is home to Jordyn Bugg and Reilyn Turner hails from Laguna Beach. Gisele Thompson, of Studio City, not only is originally from the area, but plays for her hometown club Angel City FC and Olivia Moultrie lived in Orange County for a time as a youth soccer player. 

WNT AT THE DIG: No venue in the world has hosted more USWNT matches than Dignity Health Sports Park, formally known as StubHub Center and before that, The Home Depot Center. Formerly, the U.S. Soccer National Team Training Center, the venue opened in June of 2003, hosted the USWNT for the first time on Sept. 1, 2003 in a 5-0 win over Costa Rica, and hosted the 2003 FIFA Women’s World Cup Final and Third-Place Match in October of that year as the USA held the World Cup after it was moved from China PR due to the SARS epidemic. This will be the 22nd match at DHSP for the USWNT and until the most recent match, a 2-0 loss to Mexico on Feb. 26, 2004, in Concacaf W Gold Cup group play (a tournament the USA would go on to win), the USA wnet unbeaten at the venue. The USWNT comes into this match with a 19-1-1 record in Carson.

USWNT TEAM & ROSTER NOTES

• Since the start of 2020, the USWNT has played 75 matches in the United States and 32 outside the country. The USA is 64W-5L-6D in domestic matches and has outscored the opposition 230-25 (+205) at home. Outside the United States, the USWNT is 20W-4L-8D with a 62-20 goal margin (+42).
• Since its inception in 1985, the USWNT has compiled a record of 605 wins, 75 losses and 91 ties. Over the history of the program, the USA has gone 359W-25L-37D (90% winning percentage) at home, 59W-20L-16D away (71%) and 187W-30L-38D (81%) on neutral ground. The USA’s overall winning percentage of 84% is the best all-time of any international sports team in history. Of the USA’s 75 losses, 12 (16%) came at the Algarve Cup in Portugal, long one of the world’s most competitive tournaments but one in which the USA no longer competes.
• Since the end of the 2015 World Cup, the USA has played 201 matches with a 164W-14L-23D record.
• In 2025, of the USA’s combined 41 goals and 28 assists this year, 51% involved a player under 25.
• Goals scored by players under 25:
  • 4 by 21-year-old Ally Sentnor, 3 by 24-year-old Emma Sears and 20-year-old Olivia Moultrie, 2 by 20-year-old Alyssa Thompson, 1 by 22-year-olds Michelle Cooper and Trinity Rodman, 23-year-old Avery Patterson, 19-year-old Claire Hutton and 21-year-old Jaedyn Shaw.
• Assists by players under 25:
  • 3 from Sentnor and Thompson, 2 from Cooper and Shaw, 1 from Sears, Moultrie, Hutton, 18-year-old Lily Yohannes, 21-year-old Lilly Reale, and 23-year-old Avery Patterson
• Thirty-six of the USA’s 50 goals in 2024 (68%) were scored or assisted by a player under 25.
• Trinity Rodman is the leading scorer on this roster with 11 career goals. Olivia Moultrie is next with five in just 11 caps. No one else has more than four, the career total for Emma Sears and Ally Sentnor.
• Sixteen players made their USWNT debuts in 2025 which is the most U.S. debuts in a calendar year since the first year of the program (1985). Eleven players debuted for the USWNT in 2024, which was the most in a calendar year since 2001, when 15 players – including eventual World Cup champions Abby Wambach and Lori Chalupny – earned their first caps. 
• The roster for this camp features exclusively NWSL Players. Seattle Reign FC leads the league in representation with five players here: Claudia Dickey, Sam Meza, Sally Menti, Maddie Dahlien and Jordyn Bugg. The club with the next-most players is Kansas City Current with four: Ally Sentnor, Lo’eau LaBonta, Izzy Rodriguez and Claire Hutton.
• The average caps per player on this roster heading into the Paraguay match is just 6.3. There are six uncapped players on the roster. Excluding the two players on the roster who have played for the USA in a senior world championship event – Trinity Rodman and Croix Bethune – the U.S. roster averages just 4.6 caps per player.
• There are three players on the roster who have senior world championship experience, Trinity Rodman has the most, having competed in the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup and scoring three goals with one assist at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The other two are Emily Sams and Croix Bethune who made the 2024 Olympic roster but only played in one (Bethune) or zero (Sams) matches. 
• The average age of this 26-player training camp roster is 24.1. The average age for the end-of-the-year matches against Italy was 24.8. The average age for the October 2025 roster was 24.6 and the roster for the 2025 summer matches against Ireland and Canada in June/July had an average age of 24.5.
• Thirty-eight different players started a match for the USWNT in 2025, the second most in a single calendar year in team history (38 in 2000, 41 in 2001). That includes 25 different players who were 25 years old or younger at the time of at least one of their starts.
• The three goalkeepers in camp have a total of 10 career caps. Claudia Dickey of Seattle Reign FC has six after starting the last four matches while Mandy McGlynn of the Utah Royals has four. Jordan Silkowitz, who gets her second call-up, is one of the four uncapped players in camp.
• There will be just one teenager in training camp in Jordyn Bugg (who turns 20 in August) as Claire Hutton turns 20 on Jan. 11, 2006.
• There are 23 players on the roster in their 20s and just one in her 30s: Lo’eau LaBonta, 32, who is the oldest player ever to debut for the USWNT.

IN FOCUS: PARAGUAY
FIFA World Ranking: 46
World Cup Appearances: None 
Record vs. USA: 0W-2L-0D (GF: 0; GA: 17) 
Head Coach: Herminio Barrios (PAR) 

PARAGUAY WOMEN’S NATIONAL TEAM ROSTER BY POSITION 

Goalkeepers (2): Cristina Récalde (Vllzania, ALB), Patricia López (Olimpia)

Defenders (6): Limpia Fretes (Juventude, BRA), Daysy Bareiro (Sport Extremadura, ESP), Naomi De Léon (Libertad), Tania Riso (Olimpia), Fiorella Martínez (Guaraní) María Vecca (Universidad de Concepción, CHI)

Midfielders (9): Danna Garcete (Olimpia), Erika Cartaman (Olimpia), Fátima Acosta (Libre), Yanina Servín (Guaraní), Milagros Rolón (Olimpia), Belén Talavera (Libertad), Griselda Garay (Olimpia), Nabila Perruchino (Olimpia), Agustina Varela (Libre)

Forwards (3): María Tamay (Libertad), Cindy Ramos (Atlético MG, BRA), Claudia Martínez (Olimpia) 

USA vs. Paraguay

• This is the third all-time meeting between the countries and the first match of 2026 for both programs.
• The first two were in Ohio, a set of friendlies that took place shortly after the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. The U.S. won the first meeting on Sept. 16, 2021, 9-0, and won the second meeting on Sept. 21, 8-0, in Cleveland and Cincinnati respectively. 

PARAGUAY FAST FACTS

• Paraguay is ranked 46th in the world currently. 
• The team made its official international debut in 1998, winning 3-2 over Uruguay at the 1998 South American Women’s Football Championship.
• In 2006, Paraguay earned their best South American Women’s Football Championship result. They defeated Bolivia, 5-1, Venezuela, 3-1 and Peru, 2-1, making their first advance to the second round behind Brazil. After drawing Argentina in the second round, they fell to Brazil and Uruguay to take fourth place. They also won the Fair Play Award that year.
• In the 2025 Copa American Feminina, Paraguay finished third in Group B behind Brazil and Colombia and did not make the semifinals, but defeated Chile, 1-0, to take fifth place.
• In 2025, Paraguay had a record of 4W-7L-1D across all international play. 
• The Paraguayan Football Association, through its National Teams Department, announced the appointment of Herminio Barrios as interim head coach of the Paraguayan Women’s National Team, ahead of the 3rd and 4th rounds of the CONMEBOL Nations League.
• The Paraguayan has extensive experience in women’s international football. Barrios has been part of the coaching staff for various categories of women’s national teams including the coaching staff of the Paraguayan Women’s National Team at the CONMEBOL Copa América Ecuador 2025, where the national team qualified for the 2027 Pan American Games, and as a member of Paraguay’s delegation at the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup, in Morocco.
• Claudia Martínez was the top scorer and a key player in the team’s historic 2025 CONMEBOL U-17 Women’s Championship win.
• Fifteen of Paraguay’s 20 players play domestically in the Campeonato Femenino. The most represented club is Olimpia with eight players on the roster.