The Chicago Red Stars announced the loan of defender Kayla Sharples to Adelaide United Football Club of the Australian A-League Women.
The Naperville native will be with the Australian club until March 28, 2022, after which she is expected to rejoin the Red Stars for the 2022 season.
During the 2021 National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) regular season, Sharples played in 14 games (starting in 12) and played more than 1,000 minutes for the Red Stars. The defender was an integral part of the Red Stars’ defense while Tierna Davidson and Casey Krueger were with the United States women’s national team at the Olympics.
Sharples was drafted by the Red Stars in the 2019 NWSL College Draft out of Northwestern University. At Northwestern, she was an All-Big Ten First Team player in consecutive seasons and played every minute in the Wildcats’ 2017 and 2018 seasons.