Ally Brown (soccer, born 2003)
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.jpg) Brown with Tennessee in 2025 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Allyson Elizabeth Brown | ||
| Date of birth | October 9, 2003[1] | ||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||
| Position | Center back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Lexington SC | ||
| Number | 16 | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2022–2025 | Tennessee Volunteers | 64 | (3) |
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2026– | Lexington SC | 1 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 17:49, February 22, 2026 (UTC) | |||
Allyson Elizabeth Brown (born October 9, 2003) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a center back for USL Super League club Lexington SC. She played college soccer for the Tennessee Volunteers, earning All-American honors in 2025.
Brown grew up in Wheaton, Illinois, and began playing soccer at age four.[2] She was initially coached by father and played on boys' teams.[2] She committed to play college soccer for Tennessee over South Carolina during her junior year at Wheaton North High School, where she played basketball.[1][2] After committing to Tennessee, she moved to College Grove, outside of Nashville, and transferred to Ravenwood High School.[1][2] She also moved from Sockers FC to Tennessee SC.[1] She played flag football at Ravenwood as a safety and wide receiver.[3] TopDrawerSoccer named her the 24th-best player and 6th-best defender in the 2022 class.[1]
College career
Brown played in seven games as a substitute for Tennessee during her freshman year in 2022, not making the team's travel squad. She became a starter as a sophomore in 2023, playing in 18 games with 16 starts and leading the team with 5 assists. In her junior year in 2024, she started all 20 games, leading the team in minutes played, and scored a goal, earning third-team All-SEC honors.[1][2] She co-captained the Volunteers to an impressive start to her senior season in 2025, taking down defending national champions North Carolina in the season opener and achieving the No. 1 ranking for the first time in program history.[3] She finished the season as the only player to start all 19 games for Tennessee and had 2 goals with 4 assists.[4] The team earned a three seed in the NCAA tournament but lost their rematch with North Carolina in the first round, the team's third first-round exit in four years.[5] Brown was named first-team All-SEC and fourth-team All-American alongside teammate Mac Midgley.[6]
Club career
On January 22, 2026, USL Super League club Lexington SC announced that they had signed Brown to her first professional contract on a two-year deal through 2027.[7] On February 21, Brown made her professional debut, coming on as a second-half substitute for Alyssa Bourgeois in Lexington's first loss of the season, a defeat at the hands of Sporting Club Jacksonville.[8][9]
International career
Brown was called into training camps with the United States under-17 team in 2019 and 2020.[1] She was called into a development camp, training concurrently with the senior national team, in January 2026.[10]
Personal life
Brown is the daughter of Skip and Kathy Brown.[1] Her father played college soccer for Wheaton College, winning the NCAA Division III men's soccer tournament in 1997.[2] Brown excelled academically at the University of Tennessee, graduating with a 3.99 grade point average (GPA) and being named the SEC Scholar Athlete of the Year in 2025.[11]
