Ashlyn Harris Bio, Salary, Relationship With Ali Krieger, Career

Ashlyn Harris is an award-winning American soccer stars who plays as a goalkeeper and has made much waves playing for the United States Women Soccer team and the NWSL Club the Orlando Pride. What more is that Ashlyn is also a notable lesbian whose partner Ali Krieger happens to be her teammate.

Let’s dig deep into Aslyn’s wiki, education, personal life, net worth, profession height and other facts below.

Ashlyn Harris Biography, Early Life

Ashlyn Harris hails from Florida, in a satellite cocoa beach in the US. She was born on the 19th October, 1985, to parents Mike and Tammye Harris. She was raised with her brother, Chris whom she is very close to. Ashlyn attended the Satellite High school in Florida where she grew up, unlike other female footballers, Ashlyn felt that she would rather play with the boy’s team which was the Plam Bay Rangers instead joining her female folks, thus, she was playing with the boy from a tender age until when she became a teenager. She eventually embraced reality and joined the female team known as the Seminole Ice Girls.

It was Ashlyn’s effort with the school team that led to the team winning the state Championship titles consecutively in 2002 and 2003 in her sophomore year. While in the team she was honoured with the Gatorade player of the year in 2004 in addition to the NSCAA 2004 player of the year, as she graduates from the High school. In her 65 career games while at Satellite High School, she recorded over 50 shutouts and had 0.30 goals which far from average. Ashlyn Harris is both an intellectual as well as an athlete, graduating with an impressive GPA of 3.8 despite the distractions from the sports she was engaged in.

After High School, Ashlyn got accepted to the University of North Carolina, however, she had to decline from joining the college team Tar Heels as a result of her engagement with the Women’s U-19 National team in the wake of the FIFA World Cup at Thailand in 2004. Following her joining of the Tar Heels college team in 2005, Ashlyn was struck with a thumb injury and subsequent surgery, which relegated her to the bench throughout the season until summer. Again upon her return to the Tar team in 2005, she still suffered a right anterior cruciate ligament, injury which kept her unavoidably out for the entire 2005 season yet, she still managed to make it into the 2006 Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Honor Roll team.

While she recovered from her ACL injury, Ashlyn Harris found her way back into the Tar Heels during the spring of 2006. Sadly again, she tore her left ACL on training camp with the U-21 Women’s National Team in June 2006 but she was later featured in the 2006 NCAA Women’s Soccer Tournament in November as a substitude, it was just a trying moment for her as she suffered such series of injuries within a short span of time. although she played in six NCAA Tournament games. Ashlyn was again named to the 2007 ACC Academic Honor Roll marking the end of her sophomore year.

In the 2007 season, Ashlyn still battled with a torn labrum in her right hip, but due to her relentless determination she resorted to using her left leg while putting up with the discomfort and forged ahead, appearing in 19 games while she made 9 starts, playing a total of 1130 minutes with nine goals striking through her net while she saved 29 goals, giving a 0.763% save even though she was playing only in one half of most of the games assisted by Anna.

On a cheering note, it was only during the 2008 season that Ashlyn was completely fit without any injury and she played in 27 games saving 28 out of the 37 shots on target and her saving percentage was placed at 0.757 while in the 2009 season, Ashlyn made 25 of her appearances for the team, playing a total of 2163 minutes allowing 10 goals in and recording 45 saves and her saving percentage increased to 0.818% which is above average.

Ashlyn Harris Professional Soccer Career

Just like most players, Ashlyn made her professional club debut playing in the W-League which most college players partake in during summers. She played for the Pali Blues during the 2009 summer, which she helped the club to win the tournament.

In 2010 Ashlyn was drafted by the Saint Louis Athletica unfortunate the team folded up in May 2010 and she could not feature in any game for that club.

Being a free agent, Ashlyn then joined the Washington Freedom on June 2, 2010, she appeared in the seven remaining games of the regular season as well as in the playoffs when her team lock horns with the Philadelphia Independence in the first round of the playoffs on September 19, where she was able to make three saves in regular time while the match ended nil nil in 90 minutes, unfortunately, Amy Rodriguez of the Philadelphia scored the lone winning goal resulting in a 1–0 defeat against the Freedom and they were eliminated in the playoffs.

By December 2010, Ashlyn joined the Western New York Flash, where she featured in 18 matches allowing eighteen goals but in the long run, she made the ultimate save during penalty shots for the Flash during the playoffs, leading them into claiming the 2011 WPS Championship.   She was then named the 2011 Coast Guard Goalkeeper of the Year following outstanding performance.

On account of the dissolution of the WPS league in May 2012, Ashlyn eventually moved to Germany to play for the FCR 2001 Duisburg under the Frauen Bundesliga where she signed a two-year contract with the team. She made 8 appearances for Duisburg, playing for a total of 629 minutes.

However, the 2013 season saw Ashlyn joining the Washington Spirit during the 2013 NWSL Player Allocation in January 2013, she started in the Spirit’s debut match on April 14 against the Boston Breakers, and  made 18 appearances for the Spirit making 84 saves and ended the season with a 72% save percentage, yet the Spirit failed to make any tangible impact in the league and did not make it into the playoffs with an abysmally low performance.

Again in July 2013, Ashlyn moved to join the Tyresö team, in Sweden where she featured in 7 games with the team in the Damallsvenskan regular season alongside four appearances in the UEFA Women’s Champions League.

She eventually took the decision to go back to the Washington Spirits for the 2014 season, and on January 3, 2014, joined the Washington starting in all the 19 games of the Spirits allowing 30 goals in 1710 minutes.
During a match against the Chicago Red Stars on August 2, Ashlyn again suffered a concussion thus, she occupied the bench in two but she manage to feature in the semifinal game against the Seattle Reign on August 25 where the Spirit suffered a 2–1 defeat which took them out of them playoffs.

Nevertheless, during 2015 NWSL season Ashlyn was left out of the club as she answers to national call with the United States women’s national team for the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada.  She returned to her Club the WashingtonSpirit in July, featuring 9 matches as she let in 12 goals but saved 78% of the goals, and the Spirit finished fourth in the season.

As of October, 2015, Ashlyn had joined the Orlando Pride where she was able to make 62 saves and was named to the 2016 NWSL Best XI. And in 2017 she made 14 games appearance for Orlando, and suffered a quad injury that kept her off the pitch for 8 weeks as Orlando finished 3rd in the regular season standings. In 2018, Aslyn played 21 games for the season, having 4 clean sheets, and 70 saves, yet the  Orlando had a declined finishing. On a lighter note, Ashlyn launched the 2019 season powerfully with the NWSL Save of the Week. She is still currently playing for the Orlando Pride.

A quick synopsis of her international performance revealed that she had played for the US National Women’s team in all its ramification starting from the U-14 Girl’s National Team Identification Camp, representing the United States as a member of the U-16, U-17, and U-19 teams in 2000, making 11 appearances for the U-19 team in 2001, she played in 9 matches recording four shutouts. In 2002 she played with the U-19 national team at the ARCO Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, training camp as well as the CONCACAF qualifying tournament line-up. On July 9, she was named to the 18-player team that would represent the United States at the Nordic Cup in Denmark which the US won.

In October 2003, Harris joined the U-19 women’s national team for a training camp at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California.

Again in October 12 2004, Harris was named to the 21-player roster that would represent the United States at the 2004 FIFA Women’s World Championship in Thailand and her efforts helped the United States make it to the third place. she was merited being named to the Tournament All-Star Team by the FIFA Technical Study Group, alongside being the 2004 Chevrolet Athlete of the Year Award.

Ashlyn advanced to the senior national team for a 12-day training camp held from September 21 to October 2, 2009 and by September 7, 2010, she was in the roster for the 2010 CONCACAF Women’s World Cup Qualifying tournament.

As a result of the 2012 CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Tournament, she joined a 28-player roster for a training camp in Frisco, Texas while on February 17, she was named to a 23-player roster for the 2012 Algarve Cup and during the training camp, Ashlyn had her left shoulder battered, with some cuts in her labrum, that left her off the pitch for the better part of 2012.

Upon recovery on February 21, Harris was named to a 25-player line up for the 2015 Algarve Cup in Portugal, as well as the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup. She was one of eight members of the team that were making their first World Cup roster. She strived hard and ensure that the United States won the World Cup title on July 5, 2015.
Ashlyn was also named to 2016 CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Qualifying team, which she still saw the United States through winning the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro as they defeated Canada 2–0 in the playoffs.

In 2017 Ashlyn also played the SheBelieves Cup and due a prior quad injury sustained in May, Harris only appeared in 3 games for the U.S in 2017. In 2018 Harris was named to the 2018 CONCACAF Women’s Championship but as back-up keeper to while Alyssa Naeher took her starting position.

Personal Life, Lesbian, Partner

Without doubt, Ashlyn is known as a lesbian whose partner Ali Krieger is her teammate in the Orlando Pride club, however, she takes delight in being fashionable with tattoos all round her body, she also enjoys surfing, music and skateboarding. She signed a long endorsement deal with Umbro sportswear brand as the brand’s first female ambassador.

Sadly, Ashlyn has revealed that she has a history of depression, addiction as well as addiction.
And on March 13, 2019, Ashlyn lesbian partner Ali Krieger announced their engagement, it is gathered that they eventually tied the knot.

Ashlyn is also outspoken as she has been part of other players of the U.S. women’s national team teammates, that advocates for better remuneration for the female players as well as the sexual prejudice faced by most of players.

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Height, Weight Body Measurement

Ashlyn Harris is such a beautiful soccer star with a great height of 5 ft. 9 inch tall or 1.75 meters maintaining a weight of 66 kg she is a pretty brown eyed woman with a stylish dark brown hair colour making her a perfect match for her partner.

Ashlyn Harris Salary And Net Worth

Ashlyn is among the best female goalkeepers in the US and her exceptional skills has earned her quite a good payroll, her salary per annum stands at $250,000, amassing a total net worth of over $1 million. Which she garnered from her career and endorsement deals.

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