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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Andi Maureen Sullivan[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1995-12-20)December 20, 1995 (age 29) | ||
| Place of birth | Honolulu,Hawaii, U.S.[2] | ||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Washington Spirit | ||
| Number | 12 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Bethesda Soccer Club | |||
| McLean Youth Soccer | |||
| Lee Mount Vernon Sports Club | |||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2014–2017 | Stanford Cardinal | 87 | (20) |
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2012–2015 | Washington Spirit Reserves | ||
| 2018– | Washington Spirit | 103 | (6) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2011–2012 | United States U-17 | ||
| 2013–2014 | United States U-20 | ||
| 2015–2018 | United States U-23 | ||
| 2016– | United States | 52 | (3) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of May 1, 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals as of October 26, 2023 | |||
Andi Maureen Sullivan (born December 20, 1995) is an American professionalsoccer player who plays as amidfielder for theWashington Spirit of theNational Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and theUnited States national team.
Sullivan played college soccer for theStanford Cardinal, where she won anNCAA championship and theHermann Trophy in 2017. She was drafted first overall by the Spirit in the2018 NWSL College Draft. She won anNWSL Championship with the Spirit in 2021.
Sullivan made her senior international debut for the United States in 2016. She represented her country at the2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.
Raised inLorton, Virginia, Sullivan is the youngest of four siblings and attendedSouth County High School.[3] She played club soccer for Lee Mount Vernon, Bethesda Soccer Club (Freedom) and McLean Youth Soccer.[4] In 2013, she was named the national Youth Player of the Year by theNational Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA).[3]Top Drawer Soccer ranked her as the top college recruit.[3]
During her freshman season in 2014, Sullivan started in 23 of the 24 matches in which she played. She scored her first goal for theCardinal during a match againstUniversity of Dayton and served four assists throughout the season ranking third on the team. She made the All-Freshman First Team for Top Drawer Soccer, as well as the Pac-12 First Team and NSCAA All-Pacific Region Second Team. She was also awarded Pac-12 Freshman of the Year and named National Freshman of the Year by Top Drawer Soccer and Soccer America.
As a sophomore, Sullivan played and started in all 23 games. She scored 5 goals, including three game-winners, and provided 2 assists. As a junior, Sullivan led Stanford in points (29), goals (11) and game-winning goals (4). She was named the Pac-12 Player of the Year and earned All-Pac-12 first team honors for the third consecutive season.
As a senior, Sullivan tallied three goals and six assists and led Stanford to their second national championship, scoring in theCollege Cup final. She won theHermann Trophy, after being a finalist in 2016 and a semifinalist in 2015.[3]
Sullivan played in theUSL W-League during the 2012–2015 seasons.[5][6] She played withD.C. United Women in 2012,[7] which was later renamed the Washington Spirit Reserves for the 2013–2015 seasons.
On January 18, 2018, Sullivan was selected as the number one overall draft pick at the2018 NWSL College Draft by theWashington Spirit.[8] Sullivan appeared in every game for the Spirit, except for the last game of the season which she missed as she was completing in the Nordic Cup with U.S. U-23. Sullivan was named a finalist forNWSL Rookie of the Year, finishing second in voting behind winnerImani Dorsey.[9] Sullivan returned to Washington for the2019 NWSL season and was named team captain.[10] On January 9, 2020, she re-signed with the Spirit.[11]
At the beginning of the2021 NWSL Season, Sullivan once again re-signed with Washington, inking a two-year deal.[12] She went on to captain the Spirit to the club's first-everNWSL Championship title in a 2–1 comeback victory over theChicago Red Stars. Sullivan converted the match's equalizer in the 67th minute, firing apenalty kick past opposing goalkeeperCassie Miller to draw the two teams level.[13][14][15] On June 20, 2023, Sullivan and the Spirit agreed on a new three-year deal with a team option for 2026.[16]
In April 2024, Sullivan reached 100 regular season NWSL appearances.[17] She started in all of the Spirit's NWSL games until mid-October, where she suffered an injury during a match versus theOrlando Pride. The Washington Spirit later announced that Sullivan hadtorn her ACL and would be placed on the season-ending injury list, missing the rest of the regular season and playoffs.[18][19][20] She had previously suffered an ACL tear 8 years earlier, in October 2017.[21]
Sullivan has represented the United States on thesenior national team as well as the under-15,under-17,under-20, andunder-23 national teams.[3]Sullivan competed for the United States at the2012 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship in Guatemala where she helped the under-17 national team win gold.[22] Despite being the youngest player on the under-20 national team roster at the2014 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, she co-captained the team to a2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup berth.[22]
On August 23, 2018, she was named to theUnited States U-23 team for the 2018 Nordic tournament.[23]
She earned her first cap with the senior national team during aninternational friendly match againstSwitzerland on October 19, 2016, and earned Player of the Match for her impressive performance.[24] She earned her firstassist a few days later on October 23, 2016.[25] She then played in two more matches on November 10 and 13 where she earned another assist.[26] However, she tore herACL a few days later during a college match on November 18, 2016.[21] She missed a large part of the year due to the injury but made her return to the national team on October 19, 2017.[27]
Sullivan was named to the 23-player roster for the2018 SheBelieves Cup, the U.S. won the tournament for the second time.[28] She was on the 35-player provisional roster for the2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship but was not named to the final 20-player roster.[29]
In 2019, Sullivan was originally not included on the January camp roster but was added to the roster by head coachJill Ellis.[30] She was also named to the team for the2019 SheBelieves Cup.[31]
After not being in the squad for the2019 FIFA Women's World Cup or2020 Summer Olympics, Sullivan was called back in to the national team by head coachVlatko Andonovski. Alongside fellow non-olympiansMallory Pugh andSophia Smith, Sullivan was added to an absence-heavy squad[32] for two September 2021 friendlies againstParaguay.[33][34] She started both games, scoring her first two international goals and tallying an assist during the first match.[35][36][37]
Sullivan was included in the United States' 23-player roster for the2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.[38] She played in every minute of the four games the Americans competed in. Ultimately, the USWNT were eliminated in around of 16penalty shootout toSweden following a scoreless 0–0 draw.[39]
On December 14, 2019, Sullivan marriedDrew Skundrich.[40] On Feb. 14, 2025, they announced that they were expecting a baby girl.[41]
| Club | Season | League | Cup[a] | Playoffs[b] | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Washington Spirit | 2018 | NWSL | 23 | 0 | — | — | — | 23 | 0 | |||
| 2019 | 23 | 2 | — | — | — | 23 | 2 | |||||
| 2020 | — | 4 | 0 | — | 0[c] | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||
| 2021 | 19 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | — | 24 | 3 | |||
| 2022 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 1 | — | — | 16 | 2 | ||||
| 2023 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 20 | 0 | ||||
| 2024 | 7 | 1 | — | — | — | 7 | 1 | |||||
| Career total | 103 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 117 | 8 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | |||
| 2016 | 4 | 0 | |
| 2017 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2018 | 4 | 0 | |
| 2019 | 4 | 0 | |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2021 | 6 | 2 | |
| 2022 | 15 | 1 | |
| 2023 | 15 | 0 | |
| Total | 52 | 3 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 16, 2021 | Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |  Paraguay | 3–0 | 9–0 | Friendly | [m 1] |
| 2 | 7–0 | ||||||
| 3 | April 9, 2022 | Columbus, Ohio, U.S. |  Uzbekistan | 1–0 | 9–1 | Friendly | [m 2] |
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