By: Meg Van Dyk



For Kailen Sheridan the awareness that soccer was a realistic opportunity that she could pursue as a career came as a bit of a surprise.



As a kid growing up in Canada, Sheridan played soccer for one reason — Because she loved the game.



She wasn’t concerned with all the chaos that comes with trying to get noticed by college and professional coaches. Rather, Sheridan spent her days on the grassy pitch with a ball at her feet, perfecting her craft one day at a time.



By choosing to focus on the here and now the recognition of her talent and her ability to compete at the next level came perhaps later than it typically does for most.



“For me personally it took me a while to come to that realization,” Sheridan said. “It wasn’t until I was 13 that I decided that I actually wanted to do this for the rest of my life, but it was when I got a little bit older, playing on an all boys team, that I realized I couldn’t play on a professional men’s team and it was in that moment that I began looking for other options.”



At first those other options seemed limited.



After years of playing on boys teams she struggled to compare her abilities with those of her teammates but on a Saturday afternoon at a tournament in New Jersey Sheridan saw, for the first time, her path start to unravel before her and become clear.



“At the time I had been recruited by a few schools here and there, but it was not until I took a weekend trip to New Jersey for PDA tournament where the Clemson coach first saw me play,” Sheridan said. “It’s funny though, because I always describe it as one of the worst games of my life, but because of the way that I responded they wanted to me. Now looking back I realize that things have come full circle, I get to play here in New Jersey where they first discovered me and gave me my start.”



In between the time it took Sheridan to return to the Garden State she gained the attention of John Herdman, former head coach for the Canadian National Team. In March of 2016 she made her debut during the 2016 Algarve Cup, a tournament that Canada won.



That same year Sheridan was selected as an alternative for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics.



Four years later it was that same coach who recruited her to play college ball in South Carolina that pushed her to enter her name into the 2017 National Women’s Soccer League Draft.



“I was not sure if I wanted to play in the United States or in Europe, It was pretty up in the air for me, but it was actually Eddie [Radwanski] who pushed me towards the draft,” Sheridan said. “I remember him telling me ‘This is the best league that you can possibly play in and that is who is going to get you to where you want to go,’ and where I want to go is to be number one and the absolute best goalkeeper that I can be.”



And because of that decision Sheridan now pulls on the #1 jersey for Sky Blue, the next chapter in a journey that began all those years ago in New Jersey.



But the work is just beginning, as the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup approaches this summer Sheridan will look to be on the roster for Canada as on of the goalkeepers, but until then she’ll be back in New Jersey, in between the pipes, for Sky Blue FC.

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