 Sentnor with theUtah Royals in 2025 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Allyson Marie Sentnor[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (2004-02-18)February 18, 2004 (age 21)[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Hanson, Massachusetts, U.S.[2] | ||
| Height | 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)[3] | ||
| Position(s) | |||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Kansas City Current | ||
| Number | 21 | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2021–2023 | North Carolina Tar Heels | 48 | (21) |
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2024–2025 | Utah Royals | 34 | (4) |
| 2025– | Kansas City Current | 11 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| United States U15 | |||
| United States U16 | |||
| 2018–2019 | United States U17 | 4+ | (3+) |
| 2019 | United States U18 | 2+ | (2+) |
| 2022–2024 | United States U20 | 20 | (11) |
| 2025- | United States U23 | 2 | (2) |
| 2024- | United States | 15 | (6) |
Medal record | |||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of November 10, 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of January 27, 2026 | |||
Allyson Marie Sentnor (born February 18, 2004) is an American professionalsoccer player who plays as amidfielder orforward for theKansas City Current of theNational Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and theUnited States national team.
Sentnor played two seasons ofcollege soccer for theNorth Carolina Tar Heels before being picked first overall by theUtah Royals in the2024 NWSL Draft. In 2025, she was traded to the Current in a thenrecord intraleague transfer.
Sentnor played for the youth national team at every age level,captaining theunder-20 team to bronze at the2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. After making her senior debut the same year, she was named theU.S. Soccer Young Female Player of the Year.
Raised inHanson, Massachusetts, Sentnor began playing soccer at age four and was coached by her father on her first team.[4] She scored so often as a kid that he would put her in goal or let her score only with her non-dominant left foot, which helped her develop equal comfort off both sides.[5][6] She joinedHingham club South Shore Select at age six and later trained sometimes with theBoston Bolts boys' team.[5][7] She also played the indoor soccer variant offutsal, which helped develop her touch in limited space.[8][9] She attendedThayer Academy, joining the varsity soccer team in eighth grade, and reclassified to graduate one year early.[5][10] In 2019,Megan Rapinoe presented 15-year-old Sentnor with theSports Illustrated SportsKid of the Year award.[11]
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Sentnortore her ACL minutes into her first preseason game for theNorth Carolina Tar Heels in 2021.[12][13] She got back onto the college field in 2022, scoring on her regular-season debut againstWilmington.[14] In her redshirt freshman season, she ranked second on the team with 10 goals and added 2 assists in 25 games as North Carolina won theAtlantic Coast Conference regular-season title.[3][15] Five of her goals came during theNCAA tournament as North Carolina reached thenational title game, where they lost toUCLA 3–2 in overtime. She was named to the All-ACC first team and NCAA all-tournament team.[3]
Sentnor scored a team-high 11 goals with 7 assists in 23 games in the 2023 season.[3] She recorded goal contributions in each of her last seven games, including four goals and three assists in four games of theNCAA tournament. She was involved in all three goals in their 4–3 quarterfinal loss toBYU.[3][16] She was named theACC Midfielder of the Year, first-team All-ACC, and third-teamUnited Soccer Coaches All-American.[17] She chose to turn professional after the season but continued studying online to complete her degree in 2024.[18]
Sentnor was selected first overall in the2024 NWSL Draft by theUtah Royals, who were returning to the NWSL after a four-year absence; she and North Carolina teammateSavy King were the top two picks.[19] She was signed to a three-year contract.[20] She debuted in the starting lineup on the opening matchday against theChicago Red Stars on March 16.[21] She scored her first professional goal on March 22, shooting from the corner of the penalty box off a long dribble, as the Royals won 2–1 at home against theNorth Carolina Courage.[22] She was deployed as awinger at the start of the season, scoring or assisting on five of Utah's first seven goals, before moving to a more playmaking role as anattacking midfielder at the end of June.[23][24]
Sentnor won bothNWSL Rookie of the Month andPlayer of the Month in July after notching three goals and an assist in four games and leading the bottom-of-the-league Royals to top their group in theNWSL x Liga MX Femenil Summer Cup.[25] She finished her rookie season with 5 goals and 5 assists in 23 games in all competitions.[26] She was named the Utah Royals's Offensive Player of the Year and was one of three nominees forNWSL Rookie of the Year, losing toCroix Bethune.[27][28]
On April 18, 2025, Sentnor scored the second-latest game-winning goal in NWSL history, with her 90+10th-minutepenalty kick securing a 1–0 win against theChicago Stars.[29] It was her only NWSL goal of the season and Utah's only win before the summer break.[30]
On August 1, 2025, the Royals traded Sentnor to theKansas City Current in exchange for a total fee of $600,000 in intra-league transfer funds to be paid across three seasons.[31] It was themost expensive intraleague transfer at the time.[32] The move also united Sentnor with her close friendClaire Hutton.[33] She made her Current debut in an immediate return toAmerica First Field, coming on as a halftime substitute in a 1–0 victory over the Royals.[34] She played in 11 regular-season games, starting 7, as the Current clinched theNWSL Shield with the best record in the league.[35] In the playoff quarterfinals, she played the entire extra-time match as the Current were upset 2–1 byGotham FC.[30]
Sentnor was selected to the train with the United Statesunder-14 team at the age of 12 in June 2016, the youngest player called into the camp.[36] At age 13, she scored five goals in two friendlies for theunder-15s in Germany in November 2017.[7][37] She also played for theunder-16s that year and was under consideration for the roster for the2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, but ultimately not selected to join players three years above her age group.[7] She was the most valuable player of the invitationalWeifang Cup at the under-15 level in China in 2018.[38] She was theunder-17 team's leading goalscorer in 2019, also scoring two goals in two games for theunder-18s againstEngland at the start of the year.[39][40] In 2020, because of theCOVID-19 pandemic, her age group'sCONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship andFIFA U-17 Women's World Cup were canceled.[7]
Following her ACL recovery, Sentnor made herunder-20 debut at the2022 Sud Ladies Cup, which the United States won.[7] She was one of the younger players selected to the roster at the2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. She appeared in all three group stage games and scored in their opening 3–0 win againstGhana.[7] The next year, she co-captained the under-20s withElise Evans at the2023 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship. She scored four goals during the tournament, helping the United States finish runners-up toMexico and qualify for the2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.[7][41]
Wearing the captain's armband, Sentnor led the United States to third place at the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, the country's best result since2012, scoring three goals in seven games.[42] In the first knockout round, she scored the second goal in a 3–2 overtime win against Mexico.[43] In the quarterfinals, trailingGermany 2–0, the United States came back in the last moments of regulation with a goal fromJordynn Dudley and an own goal forced by Sentnor in the 90+8th and 90+9th minutes; in a penalty shootout, Sentnor converted her opening kick as the United States advanced.[44] After falling to eventual championsNorth Korea in the semifinals, Sentnor opened scoring in the third-place match, a 2–1 victory over theNetherlands.[42] She was awarded theBronze Ball as the third-most outstanding player of the tournament.[45] Following her senior debut later that year, she was namedU.S. Soccer Young Female Player of the Year for 2024.[46]
Head coachEmma Hayes gave Sentnor her firstsenior national team call-up on November 18, 2024, ahead of international friendlies againstEngland and theNetherlands.[47] She made her senior debut against England atWembley Stadium on November 30, coming on as an 88th-minute substitute forLindsey Horan in the 0–0 draw.[48] On February 20, 2025, she made her first senior international start and scored her first goal for the team, striking from long range to go up 2–0 againstColombia in the2025 SheBelieves Cup.[49] The goal was nominated for theFIFA Marta Award.[50] With two goals and an assist, she was the sixth player to record goal contributions in all three games at one SheBelieves Cup.[51]
Sentnor is the oldest of three children born to Richard and Lee Sentnor.[3][52] She shares her hometown ofHanson, Massachusetts (population 10,000), with United States internationalsSam andKristie Mewis, with whom she trained a few times growing up.[5]
| Club | Season | League | Playoffs[a] | Other | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Utah Royals | 2024 | NWSL | 21 | 3 | — | 2[b] | 2 | 23 | 5 | |
| 2025 | 13 | 1 | — | — | 10 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 34 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 33 | 6 | ||
| Kansas City Current | 2025 | NWSL | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 31 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 33 | 6 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2024 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 11 | 4 | |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 | |
| Total | 15 | 6 | |
| Key(expand for notes on "international goals" and sorting) | |
|---|---|
| Location | Geographic location of the venue where the competition occurred Sorted by country name first, then by city name |
| Lineup | Start – played entire match onminute (offplayer) – substituted on at theminute indicated, andplayer was substituted off at the same time offminute (onplayer) – substituted off at theminute indicated, andplayer was substituted on at the same time |
| Goal in match | Goal oftotal goals by the player in the match Sorted bytotal goals followed bygoal number |
| # | NumberOfGoals.goalNumber scored by the player in the match (alternate notation toGoal in match) |
| Min | The minute in the match the goal was scored. For list that include caps, blank indicates played in the match but did not score a goal. |
| Assist/pass | The ball was passed by the player, whichassisted in scoring the goal. This column depends on the availability and source of this information. |
| penalty orpk | Goal scored onpenalty-kick which was awarded due to foul by opponent. (Goals scored in penalty-shoot-out, at the end of a tied match after extra-time, are not included.) |
| Score | The match score after the goal was scored. Sorted by goal difference, then by goal scored by the player's team |
| Result | The final score. Sorted by goal difference in the match, then by goal difference in penalty-shoot-out if it is taken, followed by goal scored by the player's team in the match, then by goal scored in the penalty-shoot-out. For matches with identical final scores, match ending in extra-time without penalty-shoot-out is a tougher match, therefore precede matches that ended in regulation |
| aet | The score at the end ofextra-time; the match was tied at the end of 90' regulation |
| pso | Penalty-shoot-out score shown in parentheses; the match was tied at the end of extra-time |
| Green background color –exhibition or closed door international friendly match | |
| Yellow background color – match at an invitational tournament | |
| Red background color – Olympic women's football qualification match | |
| Light-blue background color – FIFA women's world cup qualification match | |
| Orange background color – Continental Games or regional tournament | |
| Pink background color – Olympic women's football tournament | |
| Blue background color – FIFA women's world cup final tournament | |
| NOTE on background colors: Continental Games or regional tournament are sometimes also qualifier for World Cup or Olympics; information depends on the source such as the player's federation. NOTE: some keys may not apply for a particular football player | |
Goals | Date | Location | Opponent | Lineup | Min | Assist/pass | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 20, 2025[m 1] | Houston, Texas |  Colombia | {{{4}}}. | 60' | Tara McKeown | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2025 SheBelieves Cup |
| 2 | February 26, 2025[m 2] | San Diego, California |  Japan | {{{4}}}. | 14' | Catarina Macario | 1–1 | 1–2 | |
| 3 | June 3, 2025[m 3] | St. Louis, Missouri |  Jamaica | {{{4}}}. | 19' | Emily Fox | 1–0 | 4–0 | International Friendly |
| 4 | 28' | Deflection | 2–0 | ||||||
| 5 | January 24, 2026[m 4] | Carson, California |  Paraguay | Starting | 47' | Izzy Rodriguez | 2–0 | 6–0 | |
| 6 | 57' | Gisele Thompson | 5–0 |
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