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Sofia Gabriela Cook (born August 7, 2004) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Gotham FC of the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL). She played college soccer for the UCLA Bruins, winning the 2022 national championship.
Cook was born in Los Angeles, to Gabriela and Jerome Cook, and has a younger brother. She is of Argentine descent on her mother’s side. Cook grew up in Huntington Beach and attended Millikan and Marina High School, where she graduated early. She played club soccer for LA Galaxy’s academy and So Cal Blues of the ECNL. She was rated by TopDrawerSoccer as the 19th-best recruit of the 2022 class.
Cook appeared in 24 games (7 starts) in her freshman season with the UCLA Bruins in 2022, scoring 7 goals with 4 assists. In the NCAA tournament, she scored the overtime winner in a 2–1 victory over Virginia in the quarterfinals. UCLA mounted a comeback to defeat North Carolina 3–2 in the championship game, winning their second national title. Cook was named to the Pac-12 Conference all-freshman team and the TopDrawerSoccer Freshman Best XI second team.
Cook played in 15 games (10 starts) as a sophomore in…
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