2016 Chicago Red Stars season

The 2016 Chicago Red Stars season was the eighth season of the soccer club and its fourth season in National Women's Soccer League.

After a banner 2015 season, the team expected to do well again. The club ended the regular season at third place, and played the play-off semi-final at Boyds, Maryland against Washington Spirit on September 30, falling 2–1 and did not reach the championship match.

This season the Red Stars returned to Toyota Park for its home games, where it last played on a regular basis during its 2010 season in Women's Professional Soccer league. In 2016 season, the Red Stars honored the retirements of several long time members; Michelle Lomnicki, Julianne Sitch, Jackie Santacaterina, and Lori Chalupny. The jersey number 17 worn by Chalupny, a 3-year captain, an Olympic gold medalist and a FIFA world champion was retired in honor of her accomplishments.

After the season, National team coach Jill Ellis called up 5 Red Stars, Christen Press, Alyssa Naeher, Arin Gilliland, Casey Short and Danielle Colaprico to national team training camp. On October 7, NWSL announced the voting results of NWSL Best XI and NWSL Second XI; while Press and Gilliland were named to Best XI; 5 Red Stars, Naeher, Julie Johnston, Short, Colaprico and Vanessa DiBernardo were named to NWSL Second XI.

In the off-season 8 Red Stars, the highest number in team history, went to play in Australia on loan to W-League sides; Samantha Johnson to Melbourne Victory; Jen Hoy and Arin Gilliland to Newcastle Jets; Alyssa Mautz and Vannesa DiBernardo to Perth Glory; and Katie Naughton, Danielle Colaprico and Sofia Huerta to Adelaide United. Chicago Red Stars loaned the largest number of players to W-League, 4 more than any other NWSL club.

First-team squad Roster Players who are under contract to play for the club in 2016 NWSL season.

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College draft Players selected by the club in 2016 NWSL College Draft.

Naughton, Gorden and Raetzman joined the Red Stars first team; Flaws, Jordan, C Johnson and Ellenwood joined the Red Stars Reserves team which competes in Women's Premier Soccer League. Janelle Flaws played for 45 minutes in NWSL regular season, in an away match against Washington on July 9.

Amateur call-up Amateur players listed below were called up during the absence of international players training or playing for the national team at the 2016 Olympics or international friendly Player Home town College RefBrianna Smallidge GK Port Orchard, Washington Seattle UniversityJannelle Flaws FW Glenview, Illinois University of Illinois Kassidy Brown MF Lake Zurich, Illinois University of Illinois Rebekah Roller MF Brookfield, Wisconsin DePaul University

Player movement

5 FW Zakiya Bywaters in –– 2013 College Draft UCLA Bruins2 FW Jen Hoy in 2013 College Draft Princeton Tigers4 MF Alyssa Mautz in 2013 Supplemental draft Chicago Red Stars –– DF Michelle Lomnicki in –– 2013 Supplemental draft Sky Blue FC10 MF Vanessa DiBernardo in –– 2014 College Draft University of Illinois –– DF Taryn Hemmings in –– Signed Fortuna Hjorring (loaned to) –– MF Lori Chalupny in –– Signed Chicago Red Stars –– DF Abby Erceg in –– Signed FF USV Jena (loaned to)16 DF Samantha Johnson in 2014 preseason trial USC Trojans –– FW Adriana Leon in –– 2015 Player allocation Chicago Red Stars –– FW Melissa Tancredi in –– 2015 Player allocation Chicago Red Stars –– MF Rachel Quon in –– 2015 Player allocation Chicago Red Stars3 DF Arin Gilliland in 2015 College draft University of Kentucky24 MF Danielle Colaprico in 2015 College draft University of Virginia11 FW Sofia Huerta in 2015 College draft Santa Clara University12 FW Cara Walls in 2015 College draft University of Wisconsin–Madison18 GK Michele Dalton in Signed Kvarnsvedens IK34 MF Mary Luba in Signed Marquette University–– MF Brittany Bock in –– 2015 NWSL waiver wire Houston Dash14 DF Taryn Hemmings out –– Expansion draft Orlando Pride–– DF Abby Erceg out –– Trade Western New York Flash –– FW Adriana Leon out –– Trade Western New York Flash –– DF Whitney Engen in –– Trade Western New York Flash10 MF Vanessa DiBernardo out –– Loan Perth Glory –– DF Whitney Engen out –– Trade Boston Breakers 1 GK Alyssa Naeher in Trade Boston Breakers 6 DF Casey Short in Signed Avaldsnes IL –– MF Lori Chalupny out –– Retire ––8 DF Julie Johnston in Player allocation Chicago Red Stars23 FW Christen Press in Player allocation Chicago Red Stars5 DF Katie Naughton in College draft University of Notre Dame14 DF Sarah Gorden in College draft DePaul University15 MF Courtney Raetzman in College draft University of Kentucky–– FW Janelle Flaws in –– College draft University of Illinois–– DF Adrienne Jordan in –– College draft University of Northern Colorado–– DF Candace Johnson in –– College draft University of Missouri–– FW Ashleigh Ellenwood in –– College draft University of Arkansas–– MF Amanda DaCosta in Trade Washington Spirit–– FW Melissa Tancredi out –– Player allocation –– –– DF Michelle Lomnicki out –– Retire –––– MF Rachel Quon out –– Career on hold ––10 MF Vanessa DiBernardo in Return Perth Glory–– DF Candace Johnson out –– Not on roster –––– FW Ashleigh Ellenwood out –– Not on roster –––– FW Brittany Bock out –– Not on roster ––5 FW Zakiya Bywaters out –– Not on roster –– 7 MF Taylor Comeau in 2016 preseaon trial Portland Thorns FC–– DF Adrienne Jordan out –– Not on roster –––– FW Janelle Flaws out –– Not on roster –– 1 GK Alyssa Naeher out Friendly/Olympics USWNT8 DF Julie Johnston out Friendly/Olympics USWNT23 FW Christen Press out Friendly/Olympics USWNT9 FW Stephanie McCaffrey in Trade Boston Breakers 1 GK Alyssa Naeher in Olympics elimination USWNT8 DF Julie Johnston in Olympics elimination USWNT23 FW Christen Press in Olympics elimination USWNT

Management and staff Front Office Owner Arnim Whisler Coaching Staff Manager Rory Dames Assistant coach Bonnie Young Assistant coach Brian Kibler Assistant and Goalkeeper Coach Jordi King

Regular-season standings

Results summary

Results by Round

Match results

Preseason On February 8 Chicago Red Stars announced its preseason schedule.

National Women's Soccer League

Regular season

Postseason playoff

NWSL awards AwardRecipientReferenceGoal of the week of week 3Christen PressGoal of the week of week 4Christen PressPlayer of the week of week 5Alyssa NaeherPlayer of the Month of MayAlyssa NaeherPlayer of the week of week 9Sofia HuertaSave of the week of week 16Alyssa NaeherSave of the week of week 17Alyssa NaeherGoal of the week of week 18Christen Press NWSL Best XI of 2016Arin GillilandChristen PressNWSL Second XI of 2016Alyssa NaeherJulie JohnstonCasey ShortDanielle ColapricoVanessa DiBernardo

Squad statistics Source: NWSL

Squad statistics are of regular season matches only

Key to positions: FW - Forward, MF - Midfielder, DF - Defender, GK – Goalkeeper 24 MF Danielle Colaprico20 20 1783 1 2 0 8 4 50% 0 34 0 21 22 0 0 7 MF Taylor Comeau16 6 666 1 1 0 4 3 75% 0 0 1 9 4 0 0 13 MF Amanda Da Costa 13 8 665 0 0 0 7 4 57% 0 0 2 6 7 0 0 18 GK Michele Dalton7 7 630 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 MF Vanessa DiBernardo20 20 1787 0 7 0 32 13 41% 0 63 0 10 18 0 0 20 MF Jannelle Flaws1 0 45 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 DF Arin Gilliland20 20 1719 0 2 0 8 6 75% 4 1 1 8 10 2 0 14 DF Sarah Gorden4 0 111 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 FW Jen Hoy15 9 674 2 0 0 8 4 50% 1 0 7 8 1 1 0 11 FW Sofia Huerta20 20 1742 7 2 0 35 16 46% 5 0 11 26 20 2 0 16 DF Samantha Johnson19 19 1676 0 0 0 1 0 0% 0 0 0 9 7 2 0 8 DF Julie Johnston12 12 1080 0 0 0 1 0 0% 0 0 0 5 4 1 0 34 MF Mary Luba1 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 MF Alyssa Mautz18 10 1036 0 2 0 13 5 38% 4 1 7 21 11 4 0 9 FW Stephanie McCaffrey6 5 352 2 0 0 8 5 63% 1 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 GK Alyssa Naeher13 13 1170 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 DF Katie Naughton16 9 860 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 0 0 5 3 0 0 23 FW/MF Christen Press14 14 1260 8 0 1 62 39 63% 0 1 16 13 6 0 0 15 MF Courtney Raetzman6 0 52 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 DF Casey Short20 20 1781 2 0 0 17 8 47% 3 0 3 12 13 0 0 12 FW Cara Walls12 8 701 1 0 0 11 7 64% 0 0 9 5 5 0 0Team Total20 — 19800 24 16 1 215 114 53% 18 100 60 161 133 12 0

18GK Michele Dalton 7 7 630 7 1.00 0 0 69 25 17 68% 0 0 1GK Alyssa Naeher 13 13 1170 13 1.00 1 2 129 57 43 75% 0 0Team Total 20 — 1800 20 1.00 1 2 198 82 60 73% 0 0

Chicago Red Stars team awards On October 5 Chicago Red Stars announced the winners of 2016 team awards. For the third time in 3 years Julie Johnston was the recipient of the award for Defensive Most Valuable Player. For second consecutive year, Christen Press was named the Most Valuable Player, and Vanessa DiBernardo the Unsung Hero. New Red Star Alyssa Naeher, with 75% save percentage, was named the Iron Women of Character, while another new Red Star Casey Short was named the Rookie of the Year.

Team Most Valuable Player Christen Press (received this same award in second consecutive year)

Defensive Most Valuable Player Julie Johnston (received this same award in third consecutive year)

Rookie of the Year Casey Short

Unsung Hero Vanessa DiBernardo (received this same award in second consecutive year)

2016 Chicago Red Stars season

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