Sofia Cook
American soccer player (born 2004)
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Sofia Gabriela Cook (born August 7, 2004) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Gotham FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). She played college soccer for the UCLA Bruins, winning the 2022 national championship.
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Cook with Gotham FC in 2025 | |||
| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Sofia Gabriela Cook[1] | ||
| Date of birth | August 7, 2004 | ||
| Place of birth | Los Angeles, California, U.S. | ||
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Gotham FC | ||
| Number | 21 | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2022–2024 | UCLA Bruins | 56 | (12) |
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2025– | Gotham FC | 10 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2020 | United States U-16 | 3 | (1) |
| 2023–2024 | United States U-20 | 6 | (0) |
| 2026– | United States U-23 | 1 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 04:30, November 23, 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 14:18, March 8, 2026 (UTC) | |||
Early life
Cook was born in Los Angeles, to Gabriela and Jerome Cook, and has a younger brother.[1] She is of Argentine descent on her mother's side.[2] Cook grew up in Huntington Beach and attended Millikan and Marina High School, where she graduated early.[1] She played club soccer for LA Galaxy's academy and So Cal Blues of the ECNL.[1][3] She was rated by TopDrawerSoccer as the 19th-best recruit of the 2022 class.[1]
College career
Cook appeared in 24 games (7 starts) in her freshman season with the UCLA Bruins in 2022, scoring 7 goals with 4 assists.[1] In the NCAA tournament, she scored the overtime winner in a 2–1 victory over Virginia in the quarterfinals.[4] UCLA mounted a comeback to defeat North Carolina 3–2 in the championship game, winning their second national title.[5] Cook was named to the Pac-12 Conference all-freshman team and the TopDrawerSoccer Freshman Best XI second team.[1]
Cook played in 15 games (10 starts) as a sophomore in 2023, scoring 1 goal with 2 assists, and was named second-team All-Pac 12.[1] Her only goal of the year came in a 1–1 draw against Stanford which clinched the Pac-12 title for the Bruins.[6] In her junior season in 2024, she played in 17 games (13 starts) and scored a team-joint-high 4 goals, earning first-team All-Big Ten honors.[1] UCLA won the Big Ten tournament in their first year in the conference.[7]
Club career
Gotham FC announced on January 29, 2025, that they had signed Cook to a two-year contract with an option to extend for another year.[8] She made her professional debut on May 4, coming on as a second-half substitute for Sarah Schupansky in a 0–0 draw with the Chicago Stars.[9] On February 23, 2026, it was announced that Cook had signed a contract extension through 2028, with Gotham's general manager Yael Averbuch West saying “Sofia is a talented player with a very bright future ahead".[10]
International career
Cook began training with the United States youth national team at the under-14 level in 2018.[3] She won the 2018 CONCACAF Girls' U-15 Championship with the under-15 team.[1] She was injured in the lead-up to the 2023 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship but recovered and was selected to the roster, making two tournament appearances as they finished runners-up to Mexico.[2][11]
Honors and awards
UCLA Bruins
Gotham FC
United States U-15
Individual
