Michelle Wenino

Club career

Chicago Red Stars (WPS), 2009 In 2009, Wenino played for Chicago Red Stars in the WPS during its inaugural season. She made one appearance during a game against Saint Louis Athletica at Toyota Park for a total of 34 minutes played.

SC Freiburg, 2010 In 2010, Wenino played for SC Freiburg. She played seven games with five starts for a total of 476 minutes, scoring one goal. She made three appearances and scored one goal. Wenino started 17 games and appeared in 18 games in the 22-game season, usually playing defender on the right wing. She scored one goal and had one assist.

She announced her retirement on March 1, 2016.

Post playing

Lomnicki returned to the Chicago Red Stars in 2020 as the Director of Camps and Clinics. In January 2022 she was named associate general manager of the Red Stars, and in January 2023 the Red Stars promoted her to general manager.

On May 5, 2023, the Red Stars announced that the team had fired Lomnicki on May 4 due to a "lapse in judgment to not share important information with club leadership". The "lapse of judgement" was not informing the Chicago Red Stars' club leadership that the suburban youth club, Chicago Empire FC, hired Craig Harrington while he was serving a two year ban from the NWSL (with eligibility for future employment being conditional ). This was an issue for the Red Stars—who were already embroiled in scandal—because Lomnicki's husband is the youth club's sporting director and Lomnicki herself was listed as a female technical and performance consultant until around the time the story of Harrington's hiring started to break.

Lomnicki gave a statement on the matter which read, “I have ceased all youth contracting or club coaching as of January 2023, when I was hired as the (Red Stars’) general manager. My performance consultant role with Chicago Empire involved being a reference for girls in the club as they dealt with items such as competitive anxiety or college recruiting. I had no role in any hiring decisions for the club.”