Players›Kennedy Wesley
Kennedy Wesley
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 2001-03-08 (age 25)
- Height:
- 164 cm
Career (2024–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 51 GP · 4,227 min · 3 goals · 1 assists
Composite 2026: 0.472 — ranked 90 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 | 2024 | San Diego Wave | 13 | 12 | 1008 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 84.1 | 1 | 0 | 0.09 | 0.09 |
| 2 | 2025 | San Diego Wave | 23 | 21 | 1869 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 91.1 | 1 | 1 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
| 3 | 2026 | San Diego Wave | 15 | 15 | 1350 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 88.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.07 | 0.13 |
| 3 Yrs | 51 | 48 | 4227 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 7 | 9 | 88.6 | 2 | 1 | 0.06 | 0.09 | ||
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 | San Diego Wave | 1008 | 1 | 0.44 | 0.56 | 0.04 | 2.25 | 2.73 | -0.48 | 0.20 | 2.67 | 0.24 | 0.245 |
| 2 | 2025 | San Diego Wave | 1869 | 1 | 1.25 | -0.25 | 0.06 | 1.36 | 1.85 | -0.49 | 0.07 | 2.94 | 0.14 | 0.209 |
| 3 | 2026 | San Diego Wave | 1350 | 1 | 0.24 | 0.76 | 0.02 | 1.82 | 2.75 | -0.94 | 0.12 | 4.67 | 0.31 | 0.195 |
| 3 Yrs | 4227 | 3 | 1.93 | 1.07 | 0.04 | 5.43 | 7.33 | -1.91 | 0.12 | 10.28 | 0.22 | 0.649 | ||
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 | 0.731 | 1.080 | -0.028 | 0.541 | 0.531 | 79 | 338 | |
| 2 | 2025 | 1.907 | 0.725 | -0.971 | 1.190 | 0.438 | 76 | 258 | |
| 3 | 2026 | 0.610 | 0.946 | -0.388 | 1.091 | 0.000 | 0.472 | 90 | 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 | 13 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 12 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 2025 | 21 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 20 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 3 | 2026 | 15 | 15 | 15 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 3 Yrs | 49 | 2 | 47 | 2 | 47 | 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 | Emily Sonnett | Gotham FC | 2026 | Defender | 0.893 |
| 2 | Abby Dahlkemper | Bay | 2025 | Defender | 0.891 |
| 3 | Megan Montefusco | Pride | 2023 | Defender | 0.874 |
| 4 | Kaleigh Kurtz | Courage | 2023 | Defender | 0.854 |
| 5 | Emily Sams | Pride | 2025 | Defender | 0.840 |
| 6 | Sarah Gorden | Angel City | 2025 | Defender | 0.830 |
| 7 | Kate Del Fava | Royals | 2025 | Defender | 0.829 |
| 8 | Kelli Hubly | Thorns | 2023 | Defender | 0.816 |
| 9 | Tara Rudd | Spirit | 2024 | Defender | 0.809 |
| 10 | Diane Evelyn Caldwell | Courage | 2021 | Defender | 0.804 |