Upon her return to Colorado, United States Women’s National Team star forward Mallory Pugh is in the best form of her life. All it took to find it was the biggest adversity yet of her career: Missing her first major tournament since she was 16 years old.
All it took to find it was the biggest adversity yet of her soccer career: Missing her first major tournament since she was 16 years old.
The Highlands Ranch native burst onto the USWNT scene as a 17-year-old when she captured the golden boot at the U-20 World Cup. But she had been a regular at youth national team camps since she was in seventh grade. After all the media attention that was garnered in her teenage years and a 2019 World Cup victory at 21, Pugh was left off the 2020 Olympic team. She said it was exactly the spark she needed.
“Obviously, I think I wasn’t performing. And I realized that. I think that ultimately, this environment is competitive. To be in this environment, you have to perform well. I think that’s one thing that I learned and I just think trying to find my game again, too.” Lindsey Horan considers Pugh one of her best friends. The Golden native spoke glowingly about how Pugh bounced back from last year’s omission on Friday, and was resolute in the belief that Pugh is “playing the best soccer of her career right now.”
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