The Latest | Mar 13, 2024
Kansas City Current set opening day roster ahead of historic 2024 season
The Kansas City Current have set the club’s roster for the opening of the historic 2024 season. The Current will open the campaign with 24 active players, including nine players who are new to Kansas City in 2024.
As Kansas City opens the world’s first stadium purpose-built for professional women’s sports, the club will do so with four players who were originally allocated to the club in 2021 (Elizabeth Ball, Lo’eau LaBonta, Desiree Scott, Mallory Weber) and three more who joined the team later in that inaugural year (Hailie Mace, AD Franch, Kristen Hamilton).
Four players will mark their first professional seasons this year, including offseason signings Claire Hutton, Alex Pfeiffer and 2024 NWSL Draft selections Ellie Wheeler and Hope Hisey. Four more players (Regan Steigleder, Temwa Chawinga, Bia Zaneratto, Sophie Braun) will make their NWSL debuts. Rounding out the new faces for Current fans are two players with extensive NWSL experience who have made the move to Kansas City, Nichelle Prince and Bayley Feist.
Desiree Scott, Hanna Glas and Mallory Weber, who finished last season on the Season Ending Injury (SEI) list, will maintain that status to begin the 2024 season and do not count towards the maximum roster limit. Vanessa DiBernardo, also remains on the SEI list from her injury in 2023, however the club expects her to be cleared and ready to play shortly.
The full roster is below:
2024 Kansas City Current Roster (numerical)
| # | Name | Pos | Ht | DOB | Hometown | College/School |
| 2 | Steigleder, Regan | DEF | 5' 7" | 9/3/98 | Iowa City, IA | Northwestern University |
| 3 | Glas, Hanna (SEI) | DEF | 5’8” | 4/16/93 | Sundsvall, Sweden | |
| 4 | Mace, Hailie | DEF | 5' 7" | 3/24/97 | Ventura, CA | UCLA |
| 5 | Wheeler, Ellie | DEF | 5' 7" | 12/14/01 | Fairfax, VA | Penn State University |
| 6 | Chawinga, Temwa (INT) | FWD | 5’8” | 9/20/98 | Northern Region, Malawi | |
| 7 | Ball, Elizabeth | DEF | 5’6” | 10/20/95 | Richmond, VA | Penn State University |
| 8 | Prince, Nichelle | FWD | 5' 4" | 2/19/95 | Ontario, Canada | Ohio State University |
| 9 | Zaneratto, Bia (INT) | FWD | 5' 9" | 12/17/93 | Sau Paulo, Brazil | |
| 10 | LaBonta, Lo'eau | MF | 5’1” | 3/18/93 | Rancho Cucamonga, CA | Stanford University |
| 11 | Scott, Desiree (SEI) | MF | 5’2” | 7/31/87 | Winnipeg, Canada | University of Manitoba |
| 12 | Ballisager Pedersen, Stine (INT) | DEF | 5' 7" | 1/3/94 | Vellev, Denmark | |
| 13 | Braun, Sophie | MF | 5' 7" | 1/7/00 | Beaverton, OR | Gonzaga |
| 14 | Hutton, Claire | MF | 5' 6" | 1/11/06 | Bethlehem, NY | |
| 16 | Dibernardo, Vanessa (SEI) | MF | 5’4” | 5/15/92 | Naperville, IL | University of Illinois |
| 17 | Cooper, Michelle | FWD | 5’3” | 12/4/02 | Clarkstown, MI | Duke University |
| 18 | Rodriguez, Izzy | DEF | 5’5” | 4/13/99 | Canton, MI | Ohio State University |
| 20 | Weber, Mallory (SEI) | DEF | 5’6” | 4/4/94 | Nova, MI | Penn State University |
| 21 | Franch, AD | GK | 5’9” | 11/12/90 | Salina, KS | Oklahoma State University |
| 22 | Feist, Bayley | MF | 5' 6" | 3/14/97 | Cincinnati, OH | Wake Forest |
| 24 | Robinson, Gabrielle | DEF | 5’8” | 6/18/01 | Springfield, VA | West Virginia University |
| 25 | Hamilton, Kristen | FWD | 5’4” | 4/17/92 | Littleton, CO | University of Denver |
| 29 | Silkowitz, Jordan | GK | 6’0” | 3/27/00 | Fairfax, VA | Iowa State University |
| 30 | Hisey, Hope | GK | 5'9" | 6/26/01 | Tucson, AZ | Arizona |
| 47 | Pfeiffer, Alex (U18) | FWD | 5' 5" | 11/26/07 | St. Louis, MO | |
| 77 | Spaanstra, Alexa | FWD | 5' 5" | 2/1/00 | Brighton, MI | University of Virginia |
| 78 | Lauren (INT) | DEF | 5' 10" | 9/13/02 | Sau Paulo, Brazil | |
| 94 | Lavogez, Claire (INT) | MF | 5’8” | 6/18/94 | Calais, France | |
| 99 | Debinha | MF | 5’2” | 10/20/91 | Brasôpolis, Brazil |
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