Paige Kenton
American soccer player
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Paige Storm Kenton (born April 2, 2002) is an American professional soccer forward and defender who plays for USL Super League club Sporting JAX. She played collegiately for the Penn Quakers and the Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Paige Storm Kenton[1] | ||
| Date of birth | April 2, 2002 | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
| Position | |||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Sporting JAX | ||
| Number | 27 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2016–2019 | Padua Academy | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2020–2023 | Penn Quakers | 37 | (3) |
| 2024 | Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens | 19 | (2) |
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2021–2023 | South Jersey Elite Barons FC | (10) | |
| 2025– | Sporting JAX | 23 | (10) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of April 11, 2026 | |||
Early life and education
Kenton — whose middle name, Storm, is inspired by the X-Men heroine — grew up in Wilmington, Delaware, and attended Padua Academy, where she was a multi-sport athlete in soccer, basketball, and track and field. She helped Padua win state championships in 2018 and 2019 and was named the Gatorade Delaware Girls’ Soccer Player of the Year as a senior. She also earned All-State and regional All-American honors from United Soccer Coaches.[2]
Kenton graduated as an AP Scholar with Distinction, was a National Merit Commended Scholar, and a candidate for the U.S. Presidential Scholars.[3]
College career
Penn Quakers
Kenton played four seasons at the University of Pennsylvania, appearing in 37 matches with three goals and two assists. She graduated magna cum laude with a degree in neuroscience.[4]
During this time, she also competed for South Jersey Elite Barons FC in the Women's Premier Soccer League.[5]
Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens
In 2024, Kenton transferred to the University of Delaware for her final NCAA season, starting all 19 matches, playing over 1,500 minutes, and scoring two goals—including one against her former team, Penn.[3][6][7]
Club career
Sporting JAX
Kenton signed with Sporting JAX of the USL Super League in June 2025 ahead of the club’s inaugural season. On September 28, 2025, she scored her first professional goal in a 4–3 victory over Carolina Ascent FC.[8] Teammate Jessie Hunt gave Kenton the nickname ‘Trish.’ The name evolved from Paige to Patty to Patricia, before finally becoming Trish.[2]
At the end of October, Kenton was named to the USL Super League Team of the Month as a bench player.[9]
On November 4, she scored her fastest professional goal, in the sixth minute, when a deflected clearance by Dallas Trinity FC goalkeeper Samantha Estrada went directly into the net. It was her fourth goal of the season.[10]
Kenton was named USL Super League Player of the Month for November 2025 after recording two goals and one assist on six shots during the month.[11]
During the 2025–26 USL Super League season with Sporting JAX, Kenton emerged as a significant offensive contributor, scoring more goals by mid-season than she had during her entire collegiate career. By that point in the campaign, she had recorded six goals and five assists, despite being listed primarily as a defender.[12]
Again, on January 8, 2026, she was named to the USL Super League Team of the Month for December 2025.[13]
Career statistics
College
| Season | Games | Scoring | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | GS | G | A | PTS | SH | SOG | |||
| Penn Quakers | |||||||||
| 2021 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 6 | ||
| 2022 | 15 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 7 | ||
| 2023 | 14 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 2 | ||
| Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens | |||||||||
| 2024 | 19 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 37 | 11 | ||
| Career | |||||||||
| Career total | 56 | 48 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 66 | 26 | ||
Professional
- As of match played April 11, 2026
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Playoffs | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Sporting JAX | 2025–26 |  USLS |
23 | 10 | — | — | 23 | 10 | ||
| Career total | 23 | 10 | — | — | 23 | 10 | ||||
Personal life
She has two sisters, whose middle names—Seven and Ripley—were inspired by fictional characters: Seven of Nine from the Star Trek franchise and Ellen Ripley from the Alien franchise, respectively. She has three dogs—King, a German Shepherd; Molly, a Great Dane–Boxer mix; and Apollo, a Catahoula Leopard Dog—who live at home with her family. In a local interview, she stated that she sleeps with pillows designed to resemble them. She is a pescetarian.[2][14][15]
Honors
- Delaware State Champion: 2018, 2019
- United Soccer Coaches All-Atlantic Region: 2019
- First-Team All-State (Delaware): 2019
- Top XI – Delaware High School Soccer Coaches Association: 2019
- Girls' State All-Star – TopDrawerSoccer: 2019
- Gatorade Delaware Girls’ Soccer Player of the Year: 2020[16]
- College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Women’s Soccer Team: 2022
- USL Super League Team of the Month: October 2025, November 2025, December 2025
- USL Super League Player of the Month: November 2025