CHICAGO – Former Notre Dame women’s soccer player and now Paris Saint Germain midfielder Korbin Albert won’t have to travel far for the 2024 Olympic Games. On Wednesday morning it became official when U.S. Women’s National Team head coach Emma Hayes named her to the 18-player roster for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Albert was 1-of-5 midfielders selected to rep the Stars and Stripes.
Previously this year, Albert received her first major call-up with the national team. She won both the CONCACAF Gold Cup Championship and the SheBelieves Cup with Team USA over the last four months.
With a start in the CONCACAF Gold Cup Final, Albert became the second youngest player to start for the USWNT in a competitive final in the last 30 years. She’ll be competing in her first Olympic Games next month.
Albert last competed at Notre Dame in the fall of 2022, when she took home several top collegiate awards: Mac Hermann Trophy Finalist, Top Drawer Soccer Player of the Year, First Team All-American and ACC Midfielder of the Year. She then signed with Paris Saint Germain and has been with the club since.
“Making an Olympic roster is a huge privilege and an honor and there is no denying that it was an extremely competitive process among the players and that there were difficult choices, especially considering how hard everyone has worked over the past 10 months,” said Hayes. “Choosing an 18-player roster plus alternates involved many considerations, but I am excited for the group we have selected and I’m looking forward to building on the work from last camp as we head into the Send-Off matches and then onto France. These are great opportunities for us to continue to show the progress we are making.”
Just eight players who were on the USA’s roster for the 2020 Olympics (which was played in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic) make a return this summer while 10 players who were members of the USA’s 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Team were named to the final roster for Paris.
The 2024 U.S. Olympic Women’s Soccer Team will come together for the first time on July 8 in New Jersey in preparation to face Mexico on July 13 (3:30 p.m. ET on TNT, truTV, Telemundo, Universo, Max and Peacock) at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, N.J in the Impact 99 Legacy Match, presented by New York Life. The USA will then head to the nation’s capital for the 2024 Send-Off Match, presented by Coca-Cola, on July 16 against Costa Rica at Audi Field in Washington, D.C….