About Haley Kopmeyer
Born 1990. Haley Kopmeyer is an American association football player.
University of Michigan, 2008–2012 Kopmeyer attended the University of Michigan, majoring in political science and Spanish. During her freshman year with the Wolverines, Kopmeyer earned the University of Michigan Athletic Academic Achievement Award. After enduring a season-ending injury, she used a medical redshirt.
In 2012, as a fifth year senior, Kopmeyer started all 24 matches, making 95 saves and was in net for 2,246 of 2,256 possible minutes. She earned 11 individual shutouts and two partial shutouts. Kopmeyer was named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year and Big Ten Goalkeeper of the Year. Michigan reached the Sweet Sixteen and Kopmeyer was named to the NSCAA All-America Second Team. She was also named to the All-Big Ten (first team), NSCAA All-Great Lakes Region (first team) and Academic All-Big Ten. She was a two-time Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week. She made one appearance for the team during the 2013 season and was released from the team due to league roster constraints; however she was re-signed by the team for the 2014 season to back up Hope Solo. During the 2014 season, the Reign set a league record unbeaten streak of 16 games during the first part of the season. During the 16 game stretch, the Reign compiled a 13–0–3 record. The Reign finished first in the regular season clinching the NWSL Shield for the first time. After defeating the Washington Spirit 2–1 in the playoff semi-finals, the Reign were defeated 2–1 by FC Kansas City during the championship final. Kopmeyer finished the 2014 season with four caps for the Reign. She saved 17 of the 19 shots on goal for a 0.5 goals against average.
After Hope Solo took a leave of absence following the 2016 Olympics and her suspension from the US national team, Kopmeyer started the final nine games of the 2016 Reign season, finishing the season with 11 appearances as the team finished in 5th place, just missing out on the playoffs. Kopmeyer entered the 2017 season as the Reign's presumptive starting goalkeeper, and earned NWSL Player of the Week honors for an 8-save performance against Sky Blue FC in the first game of the 2017 season.
Canberra United, 2017–2018 On September 15, 2017, Kopmeyer joined Canberra United on loan for the 2017–18 W-League season.
Orlando Pride, 2018–2019 Kopmeyer was traded to the Orlando Pride in January 2018 as part of a multi-player trade ahead of the 2018 NWSL season. She was signed as a backup to national team keeper Ashlyn Harris.
Post-playing career Following her retirement from professional soccer, Kopmeyer began working for Just Women's Sports.
Honors
Individual NWSL Player of the Week: Week 1 (2017) NWSL Championship Runners-up: 2014, 2015
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Who is Haley Kopmeyer?
American soccer player
When was Haley Kopmeyer born?
Haley Kopmeyer was born on 28 June 1990 in Troy.
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Haley Kopmeyer is an association football player.
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Haley Kopmeyer is American.
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