Dydasco playing for UCLA Bruins in 2014
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Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | August 19, 1993 | ||
Place of birth | Honolulu, Hawaii | ||
Height | 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m) | ||
Playing position | Defender | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Washington Spirit | ||
Number | 3 | ||
Youth career | |||
Honolulu Bulls | |||
College career | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2011–2014 | UCLA Bruins | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2013–2014 | Pali Blues | 17 | (0) |
2015– | Washington Spirit | 24 | (0) |
2015–2016 | → Newcastle Jets (loan) | 12 | (1) |
National team‡ | |||
2014–2016 | United States U-23 | 5 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of July 9, 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of February 17, 2015 |
Caprice Ka'anohikula Dydasco, born August 19, 1993 in Honolulu, Hawaii, is an American soccer defender and midfielder. She played at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) from 2011 to 2014 and was drafted to play professionally by the Washington Spirit of the National Women's Soccer League on January 16, 2015. She played for the Newcastle Jets in the Australian W-League on loan from Washington Spirit in the National Women's Soccer League.
The daughter of Jose and Misty Dydasco, Dydasco played soccer for Kamehameha Schools in Honolulu and the Honolulu Bulls Soccer Club. She was a youth All-American in 2009 and 2010. Her brother, Zane Dydasco, played soccer for the United States Air Force Academy.
Dydasco began playing for U.S. national soccer teams at the age of 14. She was a starter on the United States women's national under-17 soccer team in 2009, but was injured and unable to compete in the U-17 World Cup.
Dydasco was a four-year starter as a defender for the UCLA Bruins from 2011–2014. She appeared in 94 games and scored five goals and had 23 assists. She was a member of UCLA's national championship team in 2013.
Dydasco played for the semi-professional Pali Blues in 2013 and 2014. In March 2014, playing in the midfield for the United States women's national under-23 soccer team, she assisted on the game-winning goal to win the Six Nations Tournament in Spain. In March 2015 Dydasco started all three of the matches of the United States under-23 team at a tournament in La Manga Club, Spain.