Katie Cappelletti
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_137_(Cappelletti).jpg) Cappelletti in 2025 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Katherine Cappelletti[1] | ||
| Date of birth | September 12, 2002 | ||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Kansas City Current | ||
| Number | 33 | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2021–2024 | Saint Joseph's Hawks | 85 | (0) |
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2022 | Rochester Lady Lancers | – | (–) |
| 2025 | North Carolina Courage | 0 | (0) |
| 2026– | Kansas City Current | 0 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Katherine Cappelletti (born September 12, 2002) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for the Kansas City Current of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). She played college soccer for the Saint Joseph's Hawks, setting the program record for clean sheets.
Cappelletti grew up in Fayetteville, New York, and attended Jamesville-DeWitt High School.[2] She began playing in goal when she was six.[3] She played club soccer for Syracuse Development Academy.[2]
College career
Cappeletti won the starting job for the Saint Joseph's Hawks during her freshman season in the spring of 2021,[4] the season having been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.[5] She posted 7 clean sheets in 20 starts as both a sophomore in 2021 and junior in 2022,[2] helping the Hawks to appearances in the Atlantic 10 Conference tournament semifinals both seasons.[6] During her senior year in 2023, she became Saint Joseph's career leader in clean sheets, passing the record previously shared by Grace Bendon and Colleen Corcoran.[7] She returned for her fifth and final season as a graduate student in 2024, helping the Hawks to their third A-10 tournament semifinal in four years.[8] She led the A-10 in saves, posted 8 clean sheets (7 solo) in 20 games, and was named first-team All-A-10 and the A-10 Goalkeeper of the Year.[2] During college, she also played for the Rochester Lady Lancers and was named the United Women's Soccer East Conference Goalkeeper of the Year in 2022.[9]
Club career
Cappelletti joined the North Carolina Courage as a non-roster invitee in the 2025 preseason.[10] In May, after the retirement of third-string keeper Hensley Hancuff,[11] she signed her first professional contract with the Courage for the remainder of the season.[12] She was unused as the third-stringer behind starter Casey Murphy and backup Marisa Jordan.[13]
Cappelletti joined the Kansas City Current as a non-roster invitee in the 2026 preseason,[14] in March signing a short-term contract through May.[15]
