Goins with Racing Louisville FC in 2024
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Kennedy Parker Goins[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1998-12-08) December 8, 1998 (age 25)[2] | ||
| Place of birth | Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, U.S. | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[2] | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
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Current team | Racing Louisville FC | ||
| Number | 21 | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2017–2021 | Arkansas Razorbacks | 96 | (29) |
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2022– | Racing Louisville FC | 24 | (2) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of June 15, 2024 | |||
Kennedy Parker Goins (/ˈɡoʊ.ɪns/ GO-ins; born December 8, 1998) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Racing Louisville FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). A native of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, she is a two-time OSSAA state champion and played college soccer at Arkansas.
Goins was born on December 8, 1998,[2]inBroken Arrow, Oklahoma, and attended Union High SchoolinTulsa.[3] She played a part in Union's back-to-back undefeated seasons in 2015 and 2016, her sophomore and junior seasons, respectively, as the team won the OSSAA 6A state championship both years.[3] She missed a portion of her junior year playing for the under-18 women's national team, with whom she traveled to Spain.[3] She participated in team camp with the U.S. team prior to the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, one of three high school players to earn such a distinction.[3] Coming out of high school, Goins was rated as a four-star recruit by TopDrawerSoccer.com and was the No. 26 ranked player nationally by IMG Academy.[3] Goins also played club soccer for TSC Hurricanes, whom she led in scoring for three seasons.[3]
In high school and club soccer, Goins played alongside Taylor Malham; she went on to play with Malham at Arkansas and professionally in Louisville.[3]
Goins began her career at Arkansasin2017. She started 21 matches out of the 23 in which she played, and led the team with nine goals scored on the year.[3] She scored her first collegiate goal on August 27, 2017, in a match against Abilene Christian in which she scored a total of four times.[3] This made her the 12th Razorback player to total four goals in one game and the first to achieve the mark since 2001.[4] She scored three game-winning goals during the season, and scored a goal to equalize in the 2017 SEC Tournament championship against Texas A&M, though the Aggies scored a game-winner of their own seven minutes later to take the title.[5]
Goins started all of the first ten matches of her sophomore season, scoring two goals, before suffering an ACL tear on September 20, 2018, in a game where Arkansas upset No. 2 Texas A&M.[6] The first of her two goals in 2018 was a game-winner against Florida Atlantic, with the other goal coming two days later against UConn.[3] During her junior year, Goins started in all 23 matches the Razorbacks played, finishing second on the team in both goals, with ten, and assists, with nine.[3] These goals included one against No. 1 North Carolina[7] (the first win over a No. 1 ranked team in school history for Arkansas),[8] a game-winner against No. 15 Vanderbilt, and a goal in the NCAA Tournament against North Texas.[3]
In her senior season, Goins started in all 16 Arkansas matches, leading the squad with a total of eight goals.[3] She scored two game-winning goals for the Razorbacks, with the second coming on May 1, 2021, in Arkansas' defeat of Utah Valley in the NCAA Tournament. She was named a third-team All-American by United Soccer Coaches.[9] She finished her college career with several other accolades: she was named first-team All-SEC every year from 2019 to 2021 and was a member of the SEC All-Tournament Team in her senior year.[2]
Goins was drafted by Racing Louisville FC with their first pick of the third round in the 2021 NWSL Draft.[3] She opted to play the remainder of the 2021 spring schedule with Arkansas before signing with Louisville.[10] She made her professional debut on April 24, 2022, as Louisville fell to the Houston Dash in the NWSL Challenge Cup.[11]
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