Ryan Campbell (soccer)

About

Ryan Cady Campbell (born March 18, 2002) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for USL Super League club Lexington SC, on loan from Gotham FC. She played college soccer for the Stanford Cardinal and the UCLA Bruins and was named the Pac-12 Goalkeeper of the Year with Stanford in 2023.

Campbell was born in Mission Viejo, California, and grew up in Laguna Beach. She attended JSerra Catholic High School in San Juan Capistrano, where she played soccer, basketball, and tennis. With the soccer team, she won three consecutive CIF Southern Section state championships and was named the Trinity League defensive player of the year in 2019. She played club soccer for So Cal Blues, winning four ECNL national championships and earning ECNL All-American honors in 2018. She initially committed to UCLA, but switched her commitment to Stanford.

Campbell served as the understudy to starting goalkeeper Katie Meyer during her first two seasons with the Stanford Cardinal, redshirting as a freshman and making only five appearances as a sophomore in 2021. Meyer died by suicide in the spring of 2022. In her junior season…