Casey Murphy, Carson Pickett Named To USWNT Roster
CARY, NC (June 13, 2022) — North Carolina Courage goalkeeper Casey Murphy has been named to the US Women’s National Team’s 23-player roster that will represent the USA in Monterrey, Mexico, at the 2022 Concacaf W Championship. Additionally, Courage defender Carson Pickett has been named to the 26-player BioSteel Training Camp roster ahead of the tournament. The USWNT will play two matches against Colombia prior to the team’s departure for Mexico. The first match, presented by Allstate, will take place on Saturday, June 25 at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado (7:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. MT on FS1 and ViX) and the second at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah on Tuesday, June 28 (10 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. MT on ESPN and ViX).
This marks the sixth National Team call-up for Murphy, who most recently represented the USA at the 2022 SheBelieves Cup. Thus far in 2022, Murphy has recorded clean sheets in both matches played for the USA. She has three senior team clean sheets in total. Murphy returns to the roster after being unavailable for selection for the April matches due to a knee injury.
This is the first full National Team call-up for defender Carson Pickett, although she has represented the USA at both the U17 and U23 levels. Pickett is the first player with a limb difference ever called in to the U.S. Women’s National Team.
Should there be any injuries that necessitate changes to the CWC roster, Andonovski can select any player on the USA’s 59-player preliminary roster that was announced by Concacaf on June 8. This roster includes Courage defender Merritt Mathias, who has extensive experience representing the USA having played for the U15, U16, U17, and U23 Youth National Teams. October 2016 marked Mathias’ first USWNT full team camp call-up and she received her first full team cap on June 12, 2018, in a friendly against China.
Teams can make injury replacements on their Concacaf W Championship rosters up to 24 hours before their first matches. For the USA, that would be July 3.
Following the two matches against Colombia, the U.S. team will depart directly to Mexico to prepare for the Concacaf W Championship, which will run from July 4-18 and will be played entirely in Monterrey. The tournament’s 16 matches will be split across two stadiums: Estadio Universitario and Estadio BBVA, the latter of which is one of Mexico’s likely venues for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
The USA was drawn into Group A and will face Haiti on Monday, July 4 at 6 p.m. local (7 p.m. ET), Jamaica on Thursday, July 7 at 6 p.m. local (7 p.m. ET) and Mexico on Monday, July 11 at 9 p.m. local (10 p.m. ET). The Semifinals will take place on Thursday, July 14 with the Third-Place Match and Championship Game being held on Monday, July 18. All the matches of the tournament will be available in English on Paramount+ and in Spanish on TelevisaUnivision’s streaming service ViX. The USA’s opening match against Haiti will also be broadcast on CBS Sports Network.
The top two finishers in each group after round-robin play will advance to the semifinals while earning World Cup berths. The third-place finisher in each group will earn a berth to the 10-team inter-confederation playoff tournament that will be held in February of 2023 to decide the final three berths to the expanded 32-team field at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
The tournament winner will also get an automatic berth to the 2024 Olympics in Paris while the second and third place finishers will play off in September of 2023 for Concacaf’s second and final Olympic berth. The tournament winner and the Olympic qualifier via the playoff series will also qualify directly to a new Concacaf competition, the 2024 W Gold Cup.
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The Courage’s next match is at home against the Houston Dash on Sunday, June 19 at 5 p.m. ET. Tickets can be found here and the match will air live on Paramount+ and Twitch.
