Jenna Baik

Little from Jenna Bike's path before Chicago Red Stars has surfaced publicly, but her arrival at the club marked the start of the record that follows her: a forward from Torrington, Connecticut, who took the number 4 shirt and made her name in the NWSL.

Before that, she wore the colours of NJ/NY Gotham FC, though the details of that spell have not carried over into wider reporting. What is documented instead, through a feature on Voice in Sport, is a portrait of a player built on work ethic and a strong mindset — the kind of description that tends to follow players who have had to graft for their opportunities rather than have them handed over.

At Chicago, right-footed and compact at 168cm, she has settled into a role as an attacking outlet rather than a target forward in the physical sense. The finer details of her matches, goals and seasons remain thin in the public record, which leaves her story, for now, defined more by the clubs she has represented than by any single moment inside them.