Darlington alum and Soccer Academy standout Jane Campbell ('13) has traveled to the Paris Olympic Games as an alternate for the USA Olympic women's soccer team. This is her second time at the Olympics, previously serving as an alternate for the team at the Tokyo games.
The "Women's Football Tournament," as the competition at the Olympics is officially known, will see the USWNT and 11 other nations battle it out for a place at the medals stand. The event kicked off with a round-robin group stage on July 25. Eight teams qualified for the single-elimination knockout rounds which start with the quarterfinals through to the final on Aug. 10 in Paris. The USWNT clinched their spot in the quarterfinals with a 4-1 win over Germany.
While at Darlington, Campbell trained and played in the FIFA U17 World Cup for the U.S. National Team. At age 17, she became the youngest goalkeeper ever called to a national training camp for the senior U.S. women’s national soccer team. She was named a “Women’s Soccer Game-Changer” by Sports Illustrated and the 2012 Player of the Year by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, all before she graduated from high school.
Since leaving Darlington, Campbell has gone on to become one of the top young goalkeepers in the world. At Stanford University, she played in 84 of a possible 91 games. She was named to the 2016 NSCAA All-American Team in her senior year and finished her collegiate career with 35 shutouts, tied for the most in program history.
Campbell’s stellar career at Stanford led to her being named to the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team in 2016, an honor soon followed by being drafted into the National Women’s Soccer League by the Houston Dash where she has played since 2019.
