2019 Sky Blue FC season
Date Player Positions played Previous club Fee/notes
January 10 , 2019 Caprice Dydasco DF Washington Spirit Acquired in Trade with the Washington Spirit for the 3rd Overall Pick in the 2019 NWSL College Draft
January 10 , 2019 DiDi Haracic GK Washington Spirit Acquired in Trade with the Washington Spirit for the 3rd Overall Pick in the 2019 NWSL College Draft
January 10 , 2019 Estelle Johnson DF Washington Spirit Acquired in Trade with the Washington Spirit for the 3rd Overall Pick in the 2019 NWSL College Draft
January 14 , 2019 Nahomi Kawasumi FW Reign FC Acquired in Trade with Reign FC in exchange for Shea Groom
April 10 , 2019 Gabi MF Esporte Clube Iranduba da Amazônia Signed
May 7 , 2019 Gina Lewandowski DF Bayern Munich Signed
June 11 , 2019 Elizabeth Eddy MF North Carolina Courage Acquired in a trade with the North Carolina Courage in exchange for McKenzie Meehan
July 19 , 2019 Nicole Baxter MF Asarums IF Signed
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The 2019 Sky Blue FC season is the team's tenth season as a professional women's soccer team. Sky Blue FC plays in the National Women's Soccer League, the top tier of women's soccer in the United States. Since the 2018 Sky Blue finished in last place and only won one game, 2019 offered opportunities for improvement. The off-season didn't get off to a promising start as two of the team's top draft picks, Hailie Mace (2nd overall pick) and Julia Ashley (6th overall pick) chose not to sign with the club. Mace signed with FC Rosengård and Ashley with Linköpings FC. Sky Blue's third and fourth picks, Paige Monaghan (10th overall pick) and Julie James (11th overall pick) did however choose to come to preseason and were ultimately signed. During preseason training two Sky Blue players suffered season-ending injuries. Defender Mandy Freeman ruptured her Achilles tendon and midfielder Madison Tiernan tore her ACL and MCL. On April 9, 2019 General Manager and President Tony Novo resigned from his position, Sky Blue Vice-President Alyse LaHue was appointed to take over as interim general manager. Kyra Carusa, Sky Blue's 19th overall pick in the 2019 Draft signed with Le Havre AC in France on April 25th, making her the third Sky Blue draft pick to sign in Europe. On June 28th, Denise Reddy was fired as the team's head coach. Her record as head coach was 1-8-24.