Morgan Messner

The save came in 2026, and the NWSL named it the best of its week.

Her route ran through Penn Fusion Soccer Academy, where she played in the ECNL until 2018, and then through two college programmes. She spent 2018 to 2021 at Boston University, making 27 appearances for the Terriers, before transferring to Penn State. At Penn State she played seven matches between 2021 and 2023 and conceded nothing in any of them. In 2022, alongside her studies, she made two appearances for Racing Louisville FC in the USL W League.

The professional step took longer. She trained with Chicago Red Stars as a non-roster invitee in 2023 without signing. On 13 March 2024 she joined San Diego Wave FC as a free agent on a one-year deal, and did not appear in the NWSL regular season that year. Her professional debut came on 26 July 2024 in the Summer Cup against Club América: she played the full match, made five saves and conceded twice in a 2-0 defeat. That same year San Diego won the NWSL Challenge Cup.

She joined Portland Thorns for pre-season in January 2025 and signed on 4 March. Her NWSL debut for the club arrived on 13 March 2026, against Washington Spirit, a 1-0 win with a clean sheet. In May she played in the third-place match of the CONCACAF W Champions Cup. In March 2026 Portland extended her contract through the end of the 2028 season.