Madison Hammond

About

Madison Guadalupe Hammond (born November 15, 1997) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a defensive midfielder for the Utah Royals of the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL). She played college soccer for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons before playing professionally for the OL Reign and Angel City FC.

Hammond was born in Phoenix, Arizona, but raised in the San Felipe Pueblo north of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Hammond’s single mother Carol Lincoln is Navajo and San Felipe Pueblo, and raised Hammond. Her father is Black. She is named Shrewaka in the Keres language. She first played soccer in Albuquerque as the only girl on a boys’ team at age 5. She spent time during her childhood on the San Felipe Pueblo reservation, where she is a member of the tribe’s fox clan.
Hammond’s mother was in the military and moved with her when Lincoln was reassigned to Washington, D.C. when Hammond was 9 years old. She joined girls’ soccer club Prince William Soccer near her mother’s base when they moved to Virginia; attended Hayfield Secondary School in Alexandria, Virginia, where she played varsity volleyball; and joined youth club McLean Youth Soccer of the Elite Clubs…