Lexington Sporting Club’s inaugural USL W League season came to an end on Sunday against Kings Hammer FC in Cincinnati with the visitors taking a 1-0 victory.
With the win Lexington SC ended its season 3-6-1 (10 points) while Kings Hammer will have one more match left on its schedule against Racing Louisville Academy on June 29. In the meantime, Kings Hammer stands at 2-6-1 following the loss to Lexington.
Lexington Sporting Club entered the match looking for revenge after losing to Kings Hammer just five days earlier before suffering a 3-0 loss to Indy Eleven just two days later to end the club’s home season.
Lexington SC is the first club from the USL W League Valley Division to finish its 2023 season with all other clubs, Indy Eleven, Racing Louisville, Kings Hammer and St. Charles FC, still having at least one match to play.
Though the club will not win the division and qualify for the USL W League playoffs, Lexington SC has plenty to reflect on following an inaugural season that started out with a 2-1 win and saw a plethora of premier women, both established talent and rising stars, don the green and white and represent the Commonwealth.
In the final match of the season, it was former Milwaukee Panther and Kentucky Wildcat Maggy Henschler who scored the game-winning goal, joining the likes of former Texas Wesleyan star Tameir Grosvenor, veteran talent and former West Virginia Mountaineer Kailey Utley, fellow Kentucky Wildcat Lesley Kiesling and former Lugano and Afturelding athlete Kaela Dickerman as Lexington’s first season goal scorers.
Once Henschler gave the visitors the lead it was the brick wall in goal also known as Marz Josephson who sealed the victory with several impressive saves, including a leaping one-handed highlight. Josephson was the club’s primary keeper for the season and will suit up for the Kentucky Wildcats in the Fall after leaving the University of North Carolina.
With the season in the books head coach Alan Kirkup will continue coaching the club’s women’s academy side while beginning preparations for the 2024 W League season. As for the mission to grow the women’s game in America and the Commonwealth, Lexington Sporting Club will debut its USL Super League squad in the Fall of 2024, the inaugural season of the league.
About Lexington Sporting Club
Lexington Sporting Club is a U.S. Soccer professional soccer club competing in USL League One (U.S. Soccer third division men’s professional soccer), and in USL Super League (women’s professional soccer launching in 2024). The two professional teams are the pinnacle of the soccer ecosystem in Lexington that features more than 1,400 players within its youth and academy systems. Lexington SC in the process of building the club’s formal stadium, performance center and training fields.