The Orlando Pride have extended the contracts of Australian defender Steph Catley and American forward Jamia Fields, who will both return for the club’s second National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) campaign in 2017. The team also made official that Australian striker Lisa De Vanna was waived.
The 23-year-old Catley extends her stay with the Pride after her off-season stint with Melbourne FC in the second semester of 2016, where she captained the team to its second straight Australian W-League title. The defender played all 90 minutes of the Pride’s first 11 matches of the 2016 NWSL season and scored the club’s first-ever goal.