Sam Coffey embraces the leadership role at Portland Thorns. The 26-year-old has been leading the Portland Thorns this season, not just as a star player, but also as their skipper.

Sam Coffey’s 16 regular-season NWSL assists have led to goals by 11 different Portland Thorns FC players—her latest being a perfectly placed setup for Pietra Tordin on Saturday.

U.S. women’s national team and Portland Thorns midfielder Sam Coffey’s affinity for Squishmallows, a plush, pillow-like stuffed toy, has reached international status. The 26-year-old Thorns ...

For Coffey, it has been a sudden rise to the senior national team. She had her first call up in 2022 but was kept off the World Cup roster in 2023. She did have call-ups in the fall of that season.

Coffey scores second U.S. goal. As is often the case for U.S. midfielder Sam Coffey, most of her shift against China was spent doing the game’s more thankless work in the trenches.