Kendall Fletcher

Early career

Fletcher signed for Jersey Sky Blue for the 2007 W-League season, but did not make an appearance for the club. She switched coasts in 2008, joining Pali Blues in Los Angeles, California as the first signing in team history.

Women's Professional Soccer, 2009–2012

She joined Los Angeles Sol in the WPS in 2009, but only played one game for the club before she was traded to Saint Louis Athletica. She played seventeen games for Athletica, and gave multiple assists in helping the team go from the bottom of the ladder to second place and the playoff semifinal. Athletica then loaned her to the Central Coast Mariners, where she scored four goals in ten games as the Mariners finished second in the league. Athletica kept Fletcher for the 2010 WPS season, but surprisingly folded only six games into the season, all of which she started. Sky Blue FC picked up her contract and she became a regular player there as well, starting ten of the fifteen games she played with the Jersey-based club. During the off-season, she returned to Australia, this time with the Melbourne Victory – the Mariners had folded as well – and helped them to the semi-finals.

Fletcher returned to the Sky Blue FC for the 2011 WPS season, and started all 15 games that she played and scored one goal. Like the previous season, Sky Blue was just short of making the playoffs. Following the end of the season, she returned to the Melbourne Victory for the fourth season of the W-League. She…

Fletcher was a member of the United States under-19 women's national team that won the first ever under-19 World Cup in 2002. She played for the team in two Nordic Cup Championships with the under-21 national team winning the championship in 2005. She was team captain in 2006. Fletcher was a member of the player pool for the United States women's national soccer team having trained with the team during residency in previous years. She made her first cap for the team in 2009.

Fletcher was an assistant coach for the University of California, Irvine and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Born in Cary, North Carolina, to parents, Gwen and Yates Fletcher, Fletcher has one brother, Eric, and a sister, Preston. She attended Apex High School in Apex, North Carolina where she played center midfield for the soccer team for four years and played two years of varsity basketball as a point guard. In 2002, she was ranked as the nation's sixth best high school senior by Soccer America, was a Parade and NSCAA High School All-America selection, and was named Gatorade Player of the Year. She was also named All-State in 2001 as well as All-conference and All-region in 2001 and 2002. Fletcher played for the North Carolina Olympic Development Program (ODP) team from 1997 to 2002. She also played for several different club teams including the CASL Spartan Stars, the CASL Spartan Vipers, and the GYSA Twisters Green. She won two State Cup championships with two of the club teams.

University of North Carolina, 2002–2005

Fletcher attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and played for the Tar Heels from 2002 to 2005. During her career, she won three ACC championships and was a starter for the 2003 NCAA-title winning team that went 27–0–0 for the season. During her freshman season, she played in 19 matches for the team after being out for part of season due to illness. She scored her first goal against the University of Washington Huskies. She returned in 2003 and started in 18 of the 25 games she played. She scored four goals and served seven assists as a…