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| Full name | Kathryn Michele Sobrero | |||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | August 23, 1976 | |||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | |||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Defender | |||||||||||||||||
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| Current club | Chicago Red Stars | |||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1991-1994 | Detroit Country Day School | |||||||||||||||||
| 1995-1998 | Notre Dame Fighting Irish | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† | |||||||||||||||
| 2001-2003 | Boston Breakers[1] | 51 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 2005 | KIF Örebro DFF | 8 | (1) | |||||||||||||||
| 2006-2009 | Michigan Hawks | 27 | (1) | |||||||||||||||
| 2010- | Chicago Red Stars | 6 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| National team‡ | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1998-2010 | United States | 201 | (1) | |||||||||||||||
| Teams managed | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2009- | Marquette Golden Eagles (Assistant coach) | |||||||||||||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Kate Markgraf (née Kathryn Michele Sobrero, born August 23, 1976 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan[2]), is an American soccer defender and was a member of the U.S. women's national team.[3]
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Markgraf, who is five feet, nine inches (1.75 m) tall, attended Detroit Country Day School and was a volleyball player, making the All-League team three times.[4] In soccer, she made the NSCAA All-American team one time and was chosen for the All-State team three times.[5]
At Detroit Country Day, she helped to guide the soccer team to the state title in 1991, scoring 16 goals and having 26 assists. Markgraf attended University of Notre Dame and graduated with a degree in science and business.[6] She was a three time NSCAA All-American while there, was a three time all Big East selection, the 1997 Big East defensive player of the year, and the defensive MVP of the NCAA's Final Four in 1995, the year in which her team won the NCAA women's soccer championship.[7]
She was a member of the Boston Breakers in the WUSA league, and she was named defender of the year for that team in 2001.[8] Markgraf played professionally for KIF Örebro in the Swedish league alongside longtime USA teammate Kristine Lilly.[9] She was scheduled to play with the Chicago Red Stars in WUSA's successor, Women's Professional Soccer, in its inaugural 2009 season.[10] However, the Red Stars announced in January 2009 that she would not play that season because she was expecting her second child.[11]
In 1998, she played with U.S. when they faced the national selection of Argentina.[12] Markgraf (then Sobrero) was the youngest member of the team that won the Women's World Cup in 1999, and also participated in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, and the 2004 Games in Athens. The team won the silver medal in 2000 and the gold in 2004.[13] On July 13, 2010, after nearly a two year break from international competition, she made her 200th career international appearance, in a friendly against Sweden. She became the 10th woman in FIFA history to earn her 200th cap, a mark no male player has reached. She subsequently announced her retirement from international play during halftime of the final 2011 Women's World Cup qualifying match against Italy on November 27, 2010.
Markgraf was paired with Adrian Healey as a color commentator on ESPN's secondary broadcast team for the telecasts of the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.[14]
She married Chris Markgraf, a former Providence College soccer player, on October 31, 2003.[15] Their son, Keegan Jamison Markgraf, was born on July 18, 2006.[16] In July 2009, she gave birth to boy/girl twins, Carson and Xavier.[17] Markgraf lives with her husband and their children in the Chicago area.[18]
She works since 2009 as Volunteer Assistant Coach by the Marquette Golden Eagles.[19]
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