Football beginnings

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Growing up, she didn’t initially envision playing professional soccer — until a club teammate’s sister, who played at Auburn and then with Sky Blue (now Gotham), sparked the idea.

Her youth development took place at IFK Östersund before she moved to Gothenburg to further her career.

She didn’t actually join a team until she was 10.

She developed through the women's programs at Ipojuca, Náutico and Sport Recife.

She started playing football in Österåker when she was around five or six years old.

She stepped away from football for a spell as a child and focused instead on gymnastics and swimming before returning to the game at under-nine level.

Her football journey began at Académie Univers. She joined the academy at under-nine level and remained there through under-15 football before moving to Olympique Lyonnais.

Her father played as an amateur goalkeeper and became both her inspiration and her “greatest teacher” in the position.

She has trained with Sporting Lisbon in Portugal.

FC Midtjylland used mixed training as part of her pathway, helping her develop the technical skills needed to progress.

With few opportunities for girls’ football in East Africa, Whitehouse played on a boys’ team before eventually joining a mixed side.

She didn’t know that professional women’s soccer or the U.S. women’s national team existed when she first started playing.

In 2025 she participated in a charitable initiative delivering food baskets to Projeto Meninos das Nações, a football school in São Paulo where she took some of her first steps in the sport.