Mar 14, 2025, 10:58 AM ET
Washington Spirit midfielder Croix Bethune has been got rid of from the season-ending harm listing and added to the workforce’s energetic roster, even supposing she is indexed as questionable for Friday’s NWSL opener vs. the Houston Sprint.
Bethune gained the 2024 NWSL Rookie of the 12 months award for a breakout season through which she tied former United States world Tobin Heath’s single-season assists document (10).
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Bethune’s NWSL shape earned her a debut with the USA and a place at the Olympic roster.
She made one look within the crew degree of the Olympics and earned a gold medal in August.
Her first skilled season ended unexpectedly later that month when she tore her meniscus whilst throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at a Washington Nationals 3-hitter.
The Spirit kick off the 2025 common season on Friday at Houston, one week after successful the NWSL Problem Cup over the Orlando Pleasure, in a rematch of final 12 months’s championship.
Bethune was once in the past indexed as out for the sport because of her knee harm however was once upgraded to questionable on Friday.
Washington additionally added defender Paige Metayer to the 45-day harm listing as she recovers from a knee harm sustained throughout preseason.
The timing of Metayer’s designation is retroactive to the date of her harm in February, the membership stated.
USWNT ahead Trinity Rodman didn’t play in final week’s Problem Cup sport in spite of being to be had.
She continues to regulate a again harm that she sustained past due final season. Rodman isn’t indexed at the Spirit’s harm file for Friday’s sport.
