_021.jpg) Crone with theOrlando Pride in 2024 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1998-10-20)October 20, 1998 (age 26)[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Maitland, Florida, United States | ||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)[2] | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Orlando Pride | ||
| Number | 40 | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2017–2019 | Oklahoma Sooners | 41 | (0) |
| 2020–2022 | Alabama Crimson Tide | 66 | (0) |
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2023– | Orlando Pride | 0 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
McKinley Crone (born October 20, 1998) is an American professionalsoccer player who plays as agoalkeeper for theOrlando Pride of theNational Women's Soccer League (NWSL). Born and raised in theOrlando area, she played collegiately for theOklahoma Sooners and theAlabama Crimson Tide.
Crone was born in theOrlando suburb ofMaitland, Florida, to Mark and Lora Crone, and has a younger sister.[1] She played multiple sports growing up before dedicating herself to soccer at age nine, though she also swam varsity in high school.[1][3] Shelettered in four years of soccer atEdgewater High School in Orlando, playing atforward as a freshman before staying in goal, and received all-metro honors three times. She played club soccer for Florida Kraze Krush.[1]
Crone played two full seasons as the starting keeper for theOklahoma Sooners. She piled up saves with 111 as a freshman in the 2017 season and 97 as a sophomore in 2018, though the team had losing records both years.[3][4] She then suffered an injury and sought to play elsewhere, transferring to theAlabama Crimson Tide in 2020.[3][5] In the 2021 season, she shut outClemson in the first round of theNCAA championship, helping Alabama win its first ever match at the national tournament, and made a season-high seven saves in the loss toBYU in the next round.[1][6]
In the 2022 regular season, Crone allowed only 11 goals in 19 games as Alabama went undefeated againstSoutheastern Conference (SEC) opponents and won the conference regular-season title for the first time in program history.[3][5] They were beaten bySouth Carolina in theSEC tournament final but made it to the semifinals of theNCAA tournament for the first time, where Crone posted a season-high eight saves but allowed three, losing to eventual championsUCLA.[1][7] She made 229 saves in three years at Alabama and tied the program record with 21 career clean sheets. She holds the all-time national record for career minutes played by a goalkeeper (9,519).[1]
Crone joined theOrlando Pride as a non-roster trialist in the 2023 preseason. On September 13, she was signed to the roster for the rest of the season after having had two spells on national team replacement contracts.[8] She was again invited to train in the 2024 preseason and was signed to a one-year contract on March 11, becoming the likely third option behindAnna Moorhouse andSofia Manner.[9] She made her professional debut on July 20, 2024, as the starting keeper against theNorth Carolina Courage in the first group stage game of the2024 NWSL x Liga MX Femenil Summer Cup. She made five saves in the 1–1 draw in regulation before the game went to penalties, where Crone saved two kicks but lost the shootout 5–4.[10]
| Club | Season | League | Cup[a] | Playoffs[b] | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Orlando Pride | 2023 | NWSL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 1[c] | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Career total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
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