Mackenzie Wood

About

Mackenzie Kay Wood (born July 4, 2000) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for Portland Thorns FC of the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL), on loan from Chicago Stars FC. She played college soccer for the Northwestern Wildcats and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

Wood was raised in Granger, Indiana, near South Bend, the daughter of Matt and Kiley Wood. She captained her Indiana Fire club team and her team at Penn High School. She helped her school team reach the state final as a sophomore in 2015, but finished runners-up. In her senior year in 2017, she posted 20 clean sheets as her school team became undefeated state champions and was recognized as an All-American by TopDrawerSoccer. While in high school, she was called into national training camps with the United States under-16 and under-18 teams in 2016 and 2017.

Wood was the starting goalkeeper for the Northwestern Wildcats beginning as a freshman. In the 2018 season, she led the Big Ten Conference with 0.650 goals against average and recorded eight shutouts in nineteen games, being named to the Big Ten all-freshman team and Northwestern…