Kate Ward
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| Full name | Katherine Ann Ward | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | January 29, 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2015 | Appalachian State Mountaineers | 47 | (5) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009– | US Deaf WNT | 33 | (8) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | VCU Rams (graduate assistant) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019–2022 | UTEP Miners (assistant coach) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022– | High Point Panthers (assistant coach) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| ‡ National team caps and goals as of November 18, 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Katherine Ann Ward (born January 29, 1994) is an American soccer player and coach. She captains the United States women's deaf national team and is an assistant coach for the High Point University women's soccer team.
With the deaf national team, Ward is a three-time Deaflympics gold medalist (2009, 2013, and 2021) and three-time World Deaf Football Champion (2012, 2016, and 2023). She played college soccer at Appalachian State and previously was an assistant coach at Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Texas at El Paso.