Allie Long

Alexandra Linsley Long (born August 13, 1987) is an American soccer player who plays as a midfielder for NJ/NY Gotham FC in the National Women's Soccer League and the United States national team.

Long attended Northport High School from 2001 to 2005, where she played varsity soccer for four years.

Long helped her high school team go undefeated in the regular season for all four years.

Long played college soccer for the Penn State Nittany Lions for the 2005 and 2006 seasons before transferring to the University of North Carolina to play for the Tar Heels.

In 2005, Northport advanced to the Long Island semifinals.

Long was named to the All-State first team and All-County team all four years at Northport.

After her junior and senior year, she was Newsday's Player of the Year and Suffolk County Player of the Year.

Long also made the All-Long Island Team for her last two years at Northport.

Long attended Pennsylvania State University from 2005–2006.

During her freshman year in 2005, she appeared in all 25 games, starting 22.

After starting the first game, she entered the starting lineup permanently in the fifth game of the season, remaining there for the balance of the Lions' 23–0–2 season.

She scored four goals on 58 shots and had six assists for the season.

Long was a 2005 National Soccer Coaches Association of America Third-Team All-Mid-Atlantic Region selection and was named to the Soccer Buzz second-team All-Mid-Atlantic Region, Soccer Buzz second-team freshman All-America squad, and was tapped for the Soccer Buzz 2005 Freshman All-Mid-Atlantic Region Team.

She was also named to the second-team All-Big Ten squad and the All-Tournament Team at the 2005 Big Ten Tournament and earned Big Ten All-Freshman Team honors.

During her second year in 2006, Long scored six goals and added four assists for the Nittany Lions.

Allie started all 21 games that she played in after missing the first five games while playing for the United States in the U-20 World Championships in Moscow, Russia.

She scored her first goal of the season September 24 against Michigan.

She also recorded a goal and an assist in the game at Iowa on September 29 and against Northwestern on October 22.

Long scored the game-winning goal against Minnesota on October 13 and against Illinois in the Big Ten Tournament on November 5.

She was a first-team All-Big Ten selection and was named to the National Soccer Coaches Association first-team All-Mid-Atlantic Region team.

She was the Big Ten's offensive player of the week on October 23, 2006.

She was a 2006 Soccer Buzz first-team all-region selection and was selected for the Academic All-Big Ten Team.

During her junior year in 2007, Long transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

She appeared in all 24 games, starting in 22.

Long scored five goals during the season.

She picked up her first two goals as a Tar Heel against Yale for her only multiple goal game of the season, for which she was named to Soccer America, Soccer Buzz and Top Drawer Soccer National Teams of the Week.

She was also on the watchlist for the Hermann Trophy.

Long played with the Long Island Fury in the Women's Premier Soccer League under head coach Paul Riley during summers between college seasons.

Long was a member of the Tar Heels team that won the NCAA Women's Soccer Tournament in 2008.

Professionally, Long has played for the Washington Freedom and Sky Blue FC of Women's Professional Soccer, Paris Saint-Germain of Division 1 Féminine in France, and the New York Fury of Women's Premier Soccer League Elite.

On January 16, 2009, Long was selected seventh overall in the first round of the 2009 Women's Professional Soccer Draft by the Washington Freedom for the inaugural 2009 WPS season.

She made her first appearance for the team on March 29, 2009 in a match against the Los Angeles Sol.

During the 2009 regular season, Long made 18 appearances for the Freedom, helping the team finish third in the WPS.

She played for Portland Thorns FC of the National Women's Soccer League from 2013 to 2017.

Born in Huntington, New York to Barbara and James Long, Allie was raised with her younger brother Patrick.

She started playing soccer for the Northport Cow Harbor Mustangs of the Long Island Junior Soccer League.

She then played with the Albertson Soccer Club, where she won four consecutive State Open Cup titles.

Long was a member of the Olympic Development Program of the Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association for five years and Region 1 ODP for four years.

She made her debut for the national team on May 8, 2014, in a friendly against Canada.

She has since made 45 total appearances for the team.