Amandine Pierre-Louis

Pierre-Louis appeared in 92 games during her four-year college career at West Virginia University. In 2016 she helped the Mountaineers reach their first College Cup Final. In her senior year in 2017 she was named Big 12 Co-Defensive Player of the Year.^[4]

During her college career, she played with the Laval Comets in the USL W-League.^[5]

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Sky Blue FC

Pierre-Louis was selected by Sky Blue FC with the 6th overall pick in the 2018 NWSL College Draft, she was the second Canadian selected in the first round. She was named to the final roster for the 2018 season, but due to injury has not yet appeared in a game for Sky Blue.^[6] Pierre-Louis has said that after being drafted, the club did not have permanent housing arranged for her, and that when a scheduled host family fell through, staff proposed she stay in the general manager's basement, an offer she said she found inappropriate given that she is a woman.^[7] She has said she instead arranged to stay with the family of a former West Virginia teammate in New Jersey for the duration of the situation, and that she faced a lengthy daily commute of roughly ninety minutes to training and matches during her rookie season.^[7] Pierre-Louis has also described the club's training facilities during that period as inadequate, saying the team lacked a dedicated home field and shared one with Rutgers University, had no locker room, and that players changed in a small trailer with a single shower rather than a proper facility.^[7] She has said the club changed head coaches three times during her time there and that she believed lineup decisions were sometimes influenced by front-office preferences rather than performance, a situation she said contributed to broader player dissatisfaction that was later publicly raised by other NWSL players, including Australian forward Sam Kerr, and which she said preceded the club's general manager being removed from the role.^[7]

Metz

Slavia Prague

AaB

Following her departure from the NWSL, Pierre-Louis has said she made a longstanding personal goal of playing professionally in Europe a reality, first with FC Metz in France before later moving to Denmark.^[7] Discussing her move to Danish club AaB, she said the organization worked to provide equal opportunities to its men's and women's programs, and described her time there positively, citing strong relationships with teammates.^[7]

Pierre-Louis has represented Canada at various youth levels. She was part of Canada's U-17 Team for the 2012 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship and the 2012 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Azerbaijan. Pierre-Louis, was named to Canada's U-20 team for the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Canada.^[8]

Pierre-Louis received her first senior Canada women's national soccer team call-up in January 2017 for a training camp in Los Angeles.^[9] She was eligible to file a one-time switch with FIFA in order to play for Haiti, which she qualifies through her father.^[1] Pierre-Louis has said an ACL injury sustained around February 2020 affected her ability to pursue a senior call-up at the time, and said she remained focused on her own conditioning and performance in hopes of eventually being selected.^[7]

In June 2023, Pierre-Louis was called up to the Haiti women's national team.^[10]

Pierre-Louis has discussed the ACL injury she sustained around February 2020, saying that delays in obtaining a French healthcare card as a Canadian player led her to pay for her own medical appointments out of pocket, which she said were never reimbursed.^[7] She has said that following her surgery, she was not provided transportation to rehabilitation appointments by her club at the time and was told by staff to take public transit, prompting her to arrange her own transportation and submit an invoice that she said went unanswered.^[7] She has also said that during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic she had no contact with the club's medical staff and independently arranged remote physiotherapy sessions.^[7]

Pierre-Louis has spoken about experiences of racism during her career playing abroad, saying she has encountered generalizing and stereotyping remarks from coaching staff regarding Black players, and has described feelings of isolation as one of relatively few Black women playing professionally in some of the countries where she has been based.^[7] She has said she believes greater representation of women in football leadership positions, and continued advocacy from current and former players, are necessary to improve conditions in women's football, citing the launch of clubs such as Angel City FC as a positive example, and has said male athletes publicly supporting women's sports, as seen in the WNBA, could have a similar positive effect in soccer.^[7]

Pierre-Louis has also spoken about body image pressures in women's football, saying she has heard coaches comment on players' weight for reasons unrelated to athletic performance, and has said such remarks, combined with social media portrayals of body standards, can contribute to disordered eating among athletes.^[7]

West Virginia Mountaineers

• Big 12 Conference women's soccer tournament: 2013, 2014, 2016

Individual

• Big 12 Conference Defensive Player of the Year: 2017