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Lauren Cheney (FA)
Forward
Team: Boston Breakers
Height: 5' 10"
Birth Date: 9/30/1987
Hometown: Indianapolis, Ind.
Previous Team: UCLA
How Acquired:
2010 WPS Draft

2010:
  • Started 21 of 23 games she appeared in
  • Finished third on team with five goals scored. Also had three assists
  • Scored first WPS goal six minutes into the first WPS game of the season, a 2-1 win over the Washington Freedom
  • Scored Boston's lone goal in the WPS Super Semifinals
  • Scored a goal in the WPS All-Star Game
  • Second overall pick in the 2010 WPS Draft
International:
  • Scored seven goals and notched two assists for the USWNT in 13 games in 2010
  • Scored the game-winning goal in a 3-2 win over Germany in the 2010 Algarve Cup championship
  • Scored one goal and two assists in three national team games in 2009
  • Member of the 2008 U.S. Gold Medalist Olympic Team in Beijing
  • Member of the U-20 USWNT (2006, 2007)
  • Youngest member of the U-21 USWNT in 2005
  • Member of the U-17 USWNT (2004)
Club:
  • Played for the W -League's Pali Blues in 2009
College:
  • Played for UCLA from 2006-2009
  • Four-Time First-Team All-American
  • Bruin's all-time leading scorer (173 points)
  • Two-time finalist for M.A.C. Hermann Trophy award (2007, 2009)
  • M.A.C. Hermann Trophy semifinalist (2008)
  • Led UCLA in scoring three times (2006, 2007, 2008)
  • Soccer America, Soccer Buzz, Top Drawer Soccer National Player of the Year (2007)
  • Honda Award finalist (2007)
  • Soccer Buzz First Team All-American (2007)
  • Pac-10 Player of the Year (2007)
  • Set UCLA records for single season points (2007), single season goals (2007), freshman goals (2006)
  • Soccer Buzz National Freshman of the Year (2006)
  • Led Pac-10 in points, goals and shots as a freshman
  • Pac-10 Freshman of the Year (2006)
High School / Youth Club:
  • Played at Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis, IN
  • Consensus #1 recruit in the national out of high school
  • 2005 Parade All-American
  • First player every to win both NSCAA/adidas High School & Youth Player of the Year awards in the same year (2005)
Personal:
  • Parents are Rita & George Cheney
  • Has one brother, Aaron and one sister, Caitlin
  • Was born with a congenital heart defect and had open-heart surgery when she was 3 years old.  Cheney's medical team encouraged her parents to keep her active and get involved with sports to keep her heart strong, and she was a soccer standout before her sixth birthday

 

Year Club GP GS MIN G A SHTS SOG FC FS C E
2011 Boston Breakers 9 9 764 3 0 19 12 5 8 0 0
2010 Boston Breakers 23 21 1926 5 2 65 30 19 19 2 0
Career 32 30 2690 8 2 84 42 24 27 2 0
Cheney 7
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Cheney Wants to Bring Fun
Bleacher Report article about the Breakers 2010 first draft pick and bringing fun to soccer

Cheney was selected second in the WPS draft and is excited to get started with the Breakers
 
Where were the 2010 WPS recruits five years ago? Cheney was in the midst of her basketball season where she earned all-conference honors. She plays two sports!
 
Cheney leads to trio of Bruins players drafted into the WPS this year, and UCLA was third with total number of draftees.
 
Cheney speaks about her excitement of joining the Breakers just moments after she was drafted
 
Cheney was the Breakers first pick in the draft, second overall.
 
Lauren Cheney was the Breakers first pick, second overall, in the 2010 WPS draft, and was selected by the Breakers along with eight other girls.
 
Boston Breakers find a great addition to the team in Cheney
Meet the New Kids
Lauren Cheney, Amy Rodriguez, and Tobin Heath back in the day as they try to make the Womens National Team. Oh how far they've come.
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