{{Short description|American soccer player (born 1993)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Jessica Ayers | image = | caption = | full_name = Jessica Kohm Ayers | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1993|6|11}} | birth_place = Seattle, Washington | height = {{height|ft=5|in=5}} | position = Midfielder | currentclub = | clubnumber = | youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = | collegeyears1 = 2011–2014 | college1 = Colorado College Tigers | collegecaps1 = 83 | collegegoals1 = 32 | years1 = 2015 | clubs1 = Seattle Reign FC | caps1 = 0 | goals1 = 0 | years2 = 2016 | clubs2 = IK Myran | caps2 = | goals2 = | years3 = 2019 | clubs3 = IK Myran | caps3 = 6 | goals3 = 1 | years4 = 2020–2021 | clubs4 = FC Gintra | caps4 = 27 | goals4 = 42<ref>https://lietuvosfutbolas.lt/zaidejai/jessica-kohm-ayers-73860/?pg=1</ref> | years5 = 2022–2023 | clubs5 = IFK Kalmar | caps5 = 38 | goals5 = 3 | years6 = 2023–2024 | clubs6 = Vittsjö GIK | caps6 = 4 | goals6 = 0 | nationalyears1 = 2014 | nationalteam1 = United States U23 | nationalcaps1 = | nationalgoals1 = | pcupdate = | ntupdate = | medaltemplates = }} '''Jessica Kohm Ayers''' (born June 11, 1993) is an American soccer player who plays as a midfielder.
==Early life and amateur career==
Ayers grew up in Seattle. She is Jewish.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://forward.com/news/555507/womens-soccer-world-cup-jess-ayers/|title=How women's soccer brought Jess Ayers back to her Jewish roots|date=July 28, 2023 |publisher=forward.com}}</ref> She regarded United States international Mia Hamm as her football idol.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lrt.lt/naujienos/sportas/10/1575601/geriausios-sezono-legionieres-jessicos-kohm-ayers-kilmes-saknys-lietuvoje|title= Jessica Ayers kilmės šaknys – Lietuvoje|date= December 30, 2021|publisher=lrt.lt}}</ref> Ayers played college soccer at Colorado College, earning first-team all-conference honors all four years.<ref name="goal">{{Cite web|url=https://www.goal.com/en-us/news/sprints-rapinoe-champions-league-ayers-nwsl-sweden-dream/bltd24a79a69d8c8934|title=Ayers' path from NWSL to Sweden 'dream'|publisher=goal.com}}</ref>
==Club career== Ayers was drafted by FC Kansas City with the 26th pick in the 2015 NWSL College Draft.<ref name=goal/> She later played for Swedish side Vittsjö GIK.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.barometern.se/sport/mitt-i-avgorandet-ny-amerikanska-klar-for-ifk-mitt-mal-att-att-komma-in-och-bidra-direkt/|title=Ayers: "Mitt mål att att komma in och bidra direkt"|date=October 27, 2021 |publisher=barometern.se}}</ref>
==International career== She was called up to the United States under-23 team in 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2014/05/27/12/53/140527-u23-wnt-june-otc-camp|title=U-23 WNT Head to OTC for Second Camp of 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701065206/http://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2014/05/27/12/53/140527-u23-wnt-june-otc-camp |archive-date=July 1, 2014 }}</ref>
==Style of play==
Ayers has been described as "connects the extremely hardworking and combative chain of defenders and forwards".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lrytas.lt/sportas/futbolas/2020/06/23/news/kovingumu-treneri-zavinti-j-ayers-si-sezona-galime-nuveikti-kai-ka-isskirtinio-15380439|title=J. Ayers: šį sezoną galime nuveikti kai ką išskirtinio|publisher=lyrtas.lt}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{sports links}} * [https://cctigers.com/sports/womens-soccer/roster/jessie-ayers/3269 Colorado College Tigers bio]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ayers, Jessica}} Category:1993 births Category:Living people Category:Soccer players from Seattle Category:American women's soccer players Category:American expatriate sportspeople in Finland Category:American expatriate sportspeople in Lithuania Category:American expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Category:American expatriate women's soccer players Category:20th-century American Jews Category:21st-century American Jews Category:Colorado College Tigers women's soccer players Category:Damallsvenskan players Category:Expatriate women's footballers in Finland Category:Expatriate women's footballers in Lithuania Category:Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden Category:FC Kansas City draft picks Category:Vittsjö GIK players Category:Women's association football midfielders Category:American people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent Category:21st-century American sportswomen
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