Players›Kate Wiesner
Kate Wiesner
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 2001-02-11 (age 25)
- Height:
- 170 cm
Career (2024–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 41 GP · 2,114 min · 2 goals · 1 assists
Composite 2026: -0.123 — ranked 247 of 385 Composite page →
Standard Stats
Advanced Stats
| Expected | VAEP | Threat | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Season ▴ | Team | Min | Gls | xG | G−xG | xG/90 | VAEP | Off | Def | VAEP/90 | xT | xT/90 | DAxT |
| 1 | 2024 | Spirit | 554 | 1 | 0.16 | 0.84 | 0.03 | 1.11 | 1.02 | 0.10 | 0.18 | 1.73 | 0.28 | 0.169 |
| 2 | 2025 | Spirit | 1019 | 1 | 0.15 | 0.85 | 0.01 | 1.78 | 2.22 | -0.44 | 0.16 | 2.39 | 0.21 | 0.250 |
| 3 | 2026 | Spirit | 541 | 0 | 0.15 | -0.15 | 0.03 | 0.10 | 0.43 | -0.33 | 0.02 | 3.56 | 0.59 | 0.180 |
| 3 Yrs | 2114 | 2 | 0.46 | 1.54 | 0.02 | 2.99 | 3.67 | -0.67 | 0.13 | 7.68 | 0.33 | 0.599 | ||
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.
| Components | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Season ▴ | xG | Carries | Box Passes | Defense | GK | Composite | Rank | Pool |
| 1 | 2024 | 0.311 | -0.123 | 0.304 | 0.132 | 223 | 338 | ||
| 2 | 2026 | 0.519 | -0.299 | -0.232 | -0.136 | 0.000 | -0.123 | 247 | 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 | 2024 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 2025 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 2 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 3 | 2026 | 7 | 7 | 7 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 3 Yrs | 25 | 20 | 1 | 4 | 21 | 4 | played her role | ||||||||||||
Similar Players
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 | Izzy Rodriguez | KC Current | 2025 | Defender | 0.840 |
| 2 | Jenna Nighswonger | Gotham FC | 2023 | Midfielder | 0.832 |
| 3 | Meghan Klingenberg | Thorns | 2022 | Defender | 0.802 |
| 4 | Tegan McGrady | San Diego Wave | 2022 | Defender | 0.794 |
| 5 | Casey Krueger | Spirit | 2024 | Defender | 0.784 |
| 6 | Lauren Barnes | Reign | 2022 | Defender | 0.751 |
| 7 | Courtney Petersen | Racing Lou | 2025 | Defender | 0.751 |
| 8 | Feli Rauch | Courage | 2024 | Defender | 0.740 |
| 9 | Lily Woodham | Reign | 2024 | Defender | 0.740 |
| 10 | Alyssa Malonson | Bay | 2025 | Defender | 0.733 |