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Kaleigh Kurtz

Position:: Defender
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 1994-09-09 (age 31)
Height:: 172 cm

Career (2018–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 148 GP · 13,485 min · 5 goals · 3 assists

Composite 2026: 0.521 — ranked 82 of 385 Composite page →

Standard Stats

			Playing Time			Performance									Per 90
Rk	Season ▴	Team	GP	GS	Min	Gls	Ast	PK	Sh	SoT	KP	Pass%	CrdY	CrdR	Gls/90	G+A/90
1	2018	Courage	6	6	572	0	0	0	1	0	0		1	0	0.00	0.00
2	2019	Courage	9	9	951	0	0	0	1	0	2		1	0	0.00	0.00
3	2021	Courage	22	22	2010	0	1	0	8	1	3	82.1	1	0	0.00	0.04
4	2022	Courage	22	22	1980	3	1	0	15	4	1	83.9	2	0	0.14	0.18
5	2023	Courage	23	23	2032	0	1	0	6	2	1	83.0	2	0	0.00	0.04
6	2024	Courage	27	27	2430	1	0	0	10	4	7	85.8	4	0	0.04	0.04
7	2025	Courage	26	26	2340	1	0	0	8	2	7	81.3	1	0	0.04	0.04
8	2026	Denver	13	13	1170	0	0	0	2	0	7	91.2	3	0	0.00	0.00
	8 Yrs		148	148	13485	5	3	0	51	13	28	84.1	15	0	0.03	0.05

Advanced Stats

Glossary

					Expected			VAEP				Threat
Rk	Season ▴	Team	Min	Gls	xG	G−xG	xG/90	VAEP	Off	Def	VAEP/90	xT	xT/90	DAxT
1	2018	Courage	572	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.56	0.75	-0.19	0.09	2.06	0.32	0.153
2	2019	Courage	951	0	0.07	-0.07	0.01	1.21	1.40	-0.19	0.11	2.79	0.26	0.186
3	2021	Courage	2010	0	0.48	-0.48	0.02	2.47	3.05	-0.58	0.11	4.93	0.22	0.468
4	2022	Courage	1980	3	1.76	1.24	0.08	3.56	5.21	-1.65	0.16	4.86	0.22	0.393
5	2023	Courage	2032	0	0.31	-0.31	0.01	1.72	4.20	-2.48	0.08	6.04	0.27	0.264
6	2024	Courage	2430	1	1.81	-0.81	0.07	3.50	6.02	-2.52	0.13	7.30	0.27	0.399
7	2025	Courage	2340	1	0.88	0.12	0.03	2.91	4.61	-1.70	0.11	8.39	0.32	0.465
8	2026	Denver	1170	0	0.34	-0.34	0.03	1.42	2.04	-0.62	0.11	3.53	0.27	0.280
	8 Yrs		13485	5	5.65	-0.65	0.04	17.35	27.28	-9.93	0.12	39.90	0.27	2.608

Composite Rating

Our overall player rating, unique to this site: five components — xG, ball carries, passes into the box, defensive value, and goalkeeping — combined into one score and averaged across every selection-model run of the season. Rank is her place among all rated players that year.

Glossary

		Components
Rk	Season ▴	xG	Carries	Box Passes	Defense	GK	Composite	Rank	Pool
1	2026	0.296	0.374	-0.778	1.094	0.051	0.521	82	385

Structural Roles

Start counts by role, per season — twice. Explicit is where the team sheet wrote her; Inferredis what a model reading only her on-ball events made of each start. The Read column states each season's verdict from the two most common roles.

			Explicit (Team Sheet)								Inferred (Event Data)
Rk	Season ▴	Starts	GK	FB	CB	DM	CM	AM	W	ST	GK	FB	CB	DM	CM	AM	W	ST	Read
1	2018	6		1	5							1	5						played her role
2	2019	9			9								9						played her role
3	2020	3			3							1	2						played her role
4	2021	24			24								24						played her role
5	2022	30			30								30						played her role
6	2023	31			31								31						played her role
7	2024	31			31								31						played her role
8	2025	26			26								26						played her role
9	2026	13			13								13						played her role
	9 Yrs	173		1	172							2	171						played her role

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Nearest neighbors by playing-style embedding (most recent embedded season). Similarity is cosine distance in style space, not quality.

Rk	Player	Team	Season	Pos	Similarity
1	Naomi Girma	San Diego Wave	2023	Defender	0.687
2	Sammy Smith	Boston Legacy	2026	Forward	0.669
3	Kristen McNabb	Reign	2021	Defender	0.659
4	Arin Wright	Chicago Stars	2022	Defender	0.644
5	Sarah Gorden	Chicago Stars	2017	Defender	0.644
6	Paige Nielsen	Dash	2025	Defender	0.609
7	Annaïg Butel	Spirit	2024	Defender	0.600
8	Rafaelle	Pride	2025	Defender	0.594
9	Esme Morgan	Spirit	2025	Defender	0.588
10	Phoebe McClernon	Reign	2024	Defender	0.588