BALTIMORE, Md. – Portland Thorns FC didn’t stop at one. Eight days after trading for the first-overall pick in the 2020 NWSL College Draft, the Thorns traded into the second spot, too, marking the first time in league history a single team made the first two selections in a college draft. The players selected could remake Portland’s attack for years to come.
As speculated in the days before the draft, Stanford forward Sophie Smith, an underclassman who declared for the draft the day before selections began, was taken with the first pick overall.