The Orlando Pride have traded U.S. women’s national team defender Emily Sonnett to the Washington Spirit for two draft picks, midfielder Meggie Dougherty Howard and $140,000 in allocation money.
The Pride are slated Spirit’s No. 9 pick in the 2021 draft and the first-round pick in the 2022 or 2023 draft. The Spirit already traded their 2022 first-round pick to the Utah Royals as part of a deal to acquire U.S. women’s national team player Kelley O’Hara. If O’Hara plays a minimum number of games, which could be in question during an Olympic year, the Pride would get the 2022 pick.