Utahn Sophie Post has been nominated for a U.S. Soccer award.
Post, who plays for the U.S. women’s national deaf soccer team, is one of three nominees in the running to be named the U.S. Soccer 2024 Female Deaf Player of the Year.
The other nominees are Sydney Andrews and Emily Spreeman.
Andrews played all 270 minutes for the deaf team this year, and Spreeman scored 11 goals this season, including six in one game — a record for U.S. national teams.
In 2024, Post scored three goals and recorded an assist in her three appearances for the deaf national team and earned a starting role.
Who is Sophie Post?
Post grew up in Murray, Utah, and attended Murray High School.
She also played for the Utah Avalanche, where she was encouraged to try out for the deaf national team, which she described in an email to the Deseret News as “one of the best decisions of my life.”
She’s been a member of the national team since 2017.
As part of the deaf national team, Post has played in Brazil, where she and the U.S. won gold at the Deaflympics, and in Malaysia, where she won the World Deaf Football Championships.
She and the team are preparing for next year’s Deaflympics in Japan.
Post was part of history this summer when the deaf national team played its first game in the U.S. in a doubleheader with the senior women’s national team.
“It was spectacular to see our families and people supporting us out there in the stands, and being able to play on such a big stage is really, really important,” she told the Deseret News after the June game. “It’s not anything I ever imagined for this team — like that we’d have the opportunity, so the fact that we did is quite wonderful.”
After graduating from Murray High School, Post went on to play soccer at Seattle’s Shoreline College and semiprofessionally for the Bellevue Athletic.
She is now pursuing a degree at the University of Utah, where she hopes to attend law school in the future.
Fans can vote for Post here. The fan vote will make up 15% of the vote for the award with the remaining percentage coming from “National Team players, coaches, administrators and other constituents,” according to U.S. Soccer.