Christen Press

Trained with the full U.S. team for the first time in April of 2012 in Bradenton, Fla. … Also traveled and trained with the U.S. team for two matches in Sweden in June … Named as an alternate to the 2012 Olympic Team without previously earning a cap and traveled with the squad to the U.K. … Youth National Teams: Attended training camp with the U-23s in October of 2011 … In July of 2010, she scored three times in three matches for the U.S. Under-23 Women’s National Team, including in a 1-0 defeat of Sweden, as the U.S. won the Four Nations Tournament in England ... Traveled to Germany with the U.S. U-23s for a three-match tour in May of 2010 and started both matches which ended as 2-2 draws against Germany and South Korea ... Also played for the U.S. U-23s in 2009 and scored against an Irish select side during a U-23 two-match tour of Ireland and Northern Ireland ... Finished her U-23 career with five caps and three goals … Was a member of U.S. U-20 player pool in 2008 … First Appearance: None … First Goal: None.

2013: Signed with Stockholm-based Tyresö for her second season in Damallsvenskan, Sweden’s premier women’s soccer league … 2012: Played her first season in Damallsvenskan with Göteborg and finished second in the league in scoring with 17 goals … Helped Göteborg win the Swedish Cup in overtime, 2-1, against 2012 league champions and her future club, Tyresö … Played in 34 games (21 Damallsvenskan, six Champions League, one Supercup, and six Swedish Cup), starting 33 … Scored 25 goals in all competitions (17 Damallsvenskan, three in the Champions League and five in the Swedish Cup) … 2011: Selected with the No. 4 pick in the Women’s Professional Soccer Draft by the Washington Freedom which transitioned to the magicJack based in Boca Raton, Fla. … Played in 17 matches for magicJack spanning 1,173 minutes and scored eight goals, which included a hat trick against the Boston Breakers, and was named the league’s Rookie of the Year … 2009: Helped the Pali Blues to the W-League championship in the summer of 2009 … Youth: Played club for the Slammers FC of Newport Beach, Calif. ... Won the Golden Boot for most goals scored in the USYSA National Championship tournament … Her team won U-14 and U-16 national titles and were finalists as U-18s and U-19s.

Had a brilliant college career at Stanford from 2007-10, breaking school records for career points (183), goals (71), assists (41) and shots (500) ... Set single-season school records for shots (180) and game-winning goals (10), and tied the mark for goals (26) ... In 2010, she became the second consecutive Stanford player to win the MAC Hermann Trophy, college soccer's most prestigious award ... She received Pac-10 First or Second-Team honors all four years … Stanford had a 67-0-1 record when Press had a goal or assist during her collegiate career ... Is the Cardinal's all-time scorer in NCAA Tournament play with 13 goals … As a senior in 2010 she not only won the MAC Hermann Trophy as the nation's best player, but also won national player of the year awards from Soccer America and Top Drawer Soccer ... Was named the Pac-10 Conference Player of the Year and earned NSCAA First-Team All-America honors for the first time … Was also a Soccer America MVPs First-Team selection for the second time ... Named to the NCAA College Cup All-Tournament team for the third consecutive season ... Named NSCAA All-Pacific Region First-Team ... An All-Pac-10 First-Team selection for the second time ... Was the national leader in goals (26) and points (60) while helping the Cardinal reach the College Cup final while compiling a 23-1-2 record ... Her 26 goals tied the school’s single-season scoring record, set in 2009 by Kelley O'Hara ... Led Stanford to its second consecutive perfect conference season, sending the team to its third consecutive College Cup ... Scored her first collegiate hat trick in a 6-1 victory over Utah in Santa Clara on Sept. 17 ... Had either a goal or assist over a stretch of 18 consecutive matches ... Scored or assisted in 20 of Stanford’s 26 matches ... Had seven multi-goal matches in 2010 ... Scored on a curving left-footed shot in the 32nd minute to give Stanford its first-ever lead against North Carolina (Aug. 27) in a 2-2 draw ... Broke the Stanford career scoring record on an unassisted 20-yarder in the 59th minute against USC (Oct. 8), breaking Sarah Rafanelli’s mark of 59 that had stood since 1993 ... Scored twice in a 2-0 victory over visiting Oregon State – the first on a full volley – to decide the Pac-10 title (Nov. 5) ... Scored twice in a 3-0 NCAA third-round victory in the rain against visiting UCLA (Nov. 19) ... Had a school-record 10 game-winning goals. As a Junior in 2009 she scored a golden goal on a screaming 24-yarder in the 94th minute against UCLA in the NCAA College Cup semifinals in chilly and windy conditions in College Station, Texas, to give Stanford a 2-1 victory ... Had the second-highest scoring season in Stanford history to date, with 21 goals and 16 assists for 58 points ... Tied for the national lead in assists … Top Drawer Soccer’s National Co-Player of the Year with O’Hara ... Combined with O’Hara on 19 goals ... Press and O’Hara scored 47 of Stanford’s 80 goals and combined for 123 points, the most for a tandem in the country since 2005 ... Had seven game-winning goals ... Received her first All-America honor by being named to the NSCAA Second-Team ... Named to Soccer America's MVPs First-Team … Named to the NCAA College Cup All-Tournament team for the second consecutive season ... Scored the fastest goal in Stanford history, only 23 seconds into Stanford’s 2-0 victory over BYU (Nov. 14) in the second round of the NCAA Tournament ... Named NSCAA All-Pacific Region First-Team and All-Pac-10 First-Team … As a Sophomore in 2008, she had 16 goals and 11 assists (43 points), the second-highest single-season point total in school history at the time ... Named Second-Team All-West Region and Second-Team All-Pac-10 ... Only Stanford player named to the College Cup All-Tournament team ... Had a goal or an assist in 19 matches ... As a freshman in 2007 she was the Pac-10 Freshman of the Year, Second-Team All-Pac-10 and was named to the Pac-10 All-Freshman team ... Started in 18 of 21 appearances ... Led the team in assists (6) and was second in goals (8), points (22) and shots (60) … A 2007 graduate of Chadwick School in Palos Verdes Peninsula, Calif. ... A 2006 NSCAA High School All-American and a Parade All-American ... Was a two-year team captain and four-year starter ... Led Dolphins to two Southern Section Division IV titles ... Scored 128 high school goals, including a school-record 38 as a junior ... A two-time Southern Section Division IV Offensive Player of the Year ... A four-time Prep League Offensive MVP ... Also won letters in track and tennis.

Full name is Christen Annemarie Press … Majored in Communications and Psychology … As a senior at Stanford, she was named to the ESPN Academic All-America First-Team ... Selected as the Pac-10’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year for women's soccer and named to the Pac-10 All-Academic First-Team ... As a junior, she was an Pac-10 All-Academic Second-Team Selection … As a sophomore she was Second Team All-Academic Pac-10 ... Father played football for Dartmouth … Writes a well-read and well-received blog for SoccerAmerica.com … The middle of three daughters and says “we are like Alvin and the Chipmunks” … Loves the ocean and sunshine … Most days she can be found writing and sipping a cappuccino at a coffee shop or shoe shopping … Has volunteered at the Boys & Girls Club in Los Angeles … Lived in Madrid for three months during the winter quarter of her junior year – where she took classes only in Spanish – and taught English to kindergarten-aged children … Is proficient in Spanish, but wants to get better … Is also learning Swedish … Has a “really bad” sweet tooth, especially chocolate and pastry-type desserts.