Mia Pante

Mia Tecla Christina Pante ( born March 25, 2003) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays for Vancouver Rise FC in the Northern Super League, on loan from Italian Serie A club AS Roma.

Early life Pante began playing youth soccer at age five with North Shore Girls SC. She later played youth soccer with Mountain United FC, before joining the Whitecaps FC Girls Elite in August 2017. In 2020, she was named the Whitecaps Most Promising Female Player.

College career In 2021, Pante began attending Texas A&M University, where she played for the women's soccer team. On August 28, 2021, she scored her first collegiate goal in a victory over the Clemson Tigers, earning her SEC Freshman of the Week honours. At the end of her freshman season, she was named to the SEC All-Freshman Team. Over the next three seasons, she was named to the All-SEC Second Team each year and earned the school's Assists Leader Award in 2021 and the “Farmers Fight” Perseverance Award in 2023. In 2023, Pante played with Nautsa’mawt FC in League1 British Columbia. In 2024, she played with Burnaby FC.

In January 2025, she signed with Italian Serie A club AS Roma. In February 2026, she was loaned to Vancouver Rise FC in the Northern Super League for the 2026 season, with Rise's sporting director Stephanie Labbé saying of her signing “Mia is a fantastic addition to our team, and I am thrilled to bring her home to play in front of her home city.”

International career Pante is eligible to represent Canada and Italy at international level.

In August 2018, she made her debut in the Canada national program with the Canada U15 at the 2018 CONCACAF Girls' U-15 Championship. She was later named to the Canada U20 team for the 2022 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, where she won a bronze medal, and the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.