The National Women’s Soccer League will allow 17-year-old Jaedyn Shaw to sign with a team, making an exception to its age-restriction rule for an U.S. under-20 national team attacker who could’ve spurned the league for a European club next winter.
The Texas-born attacker trained with the Washington Spirit before this season but wasn’t allowed to sign because she was under 18 — the league threshold — and Washington didn’t own her NWSL rights.
On Thursday, though, the league announced it will allow Shaw to enter the NWSL through a discovery process involving all 12 teams.