Maycee Bell | QueenBallers Player profile

Maycee

Bell

Sep 18, 2000

#27 - Defender

North Carolina Courage

Maycee Nicole Bell is an American professional soccer player who plays as a defender for the North Carolina Courage of the National Women's Soccer League.

Did You Know?

She was selected 14th overall in the first round of the 2024 NWSL Draft by NJ/NY Gotham FC.

She captained her ECNL club, Sporting Blue Valley, from 2014 to 2017.

She was born in Wichita, Kansas, and has five younger siblings. Three of her brothers were adopted by her family.

Her parents, Brett and Kristy Bell, were both college basketball players.

She began her soccer career as a forward but switched to center back at her first U.S. youth national team camp in 2014.

She realized she loved stopping goals more than scoring them.

She modeled her game after U.S. national team defender Becky Sauerbrunn.

She played with the Courage first team during her college off-seasons.

She tore her meniscus in the first game of the 2022 college season and had to sit out the entire year.

She majored in Exercise and Sports Science at the University of North Carolina.

She learned to play soccer in a neglected field in south Wichita, where the grass was tall, and she often had to remove stickers from her socks.

As a child, she always told people she wanted to be a professional soccer player when she grew up.

She takes pride in being from Wichita and hopes to inspire young girls from her hometown to chase their dreams.

Growing up, she often played up two age groups, and when that wasn’t challenging enough, she switched to playing with an all-boys team.

Pre-game ritual includes listening to rap music, particularly Future and DaBaby, to get hyped before matches.

Best Actions

First NWSL goal

Club Achievements

Concacaf Women's U20	1×
The Women's Cup	1×

Stats

Year	Club	AP	GL
2024 - present	North Carolina Courage	3	0
2024 -	NJ/NY Gotham FC	13	1
2019 - 2023	North Carolina Tar Heels	77	7
International Stats
2019 - 2022	United States U23	2	0
2018 -	United States U20	8	1
2017 - 2018	United States U19	2	0

Team: North Carolina Courage

Malia Berkely

Hannah Betfort

Sydney Collins

Brooklyn Courtnall

Brooklyn
Courtnall

Aline Gomes

Hensley Hancuff

Hensley
Hancuff

Riley Jackson

Marisa Jordan

Shinomi Koyama

Kaleigh Kurtz

Tyler Lussi

Heather MacNab

Manaka Matsukubo

Manaka
Matsukubo

Charlotte McLean

Charlotte
McLean

Casey Murphy

Amber Nguyen

Denise O'Sullivan

Denise
O'Sullivan

Brianna Pinto

Feli Rauch

Ashley Sanchez

Jaedyn Shaw

Meredith Speck

Natalia Staude

Cortnee Vine

Dani Weatherholt

Dani
Weatherholt

Ryan Williams

Olivia Wingate

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