Players›Kaleigh Kurtz
Kaleigh Kurtz
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1994-09-09 (age 31)
- Height:
- 172 cm
Career (2018–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 148 GP · 13,485 min · 5 goals · 3 assists
Composite 2026: 0.521 — ranked 82 of 385 Composite page →
Standard Stats
| Playing Time | Performance | Per 90 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Season ▴ | Team | GP | GS | Min | Gls | Ast | PK | Sh | SoT | KP | Pass% | CrdY | CrdR | Gls/90 | G+A/90 |
| 1 | 2018 | Courage | 6 | 6 | 572 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 2 | 2019 | Courage | 9 | 9 | 951 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 3 | 2021 | Courage | 22 | 22 | 2010 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 82.1 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.04 |
| 4 | 2022 | Courage | 22 | 22 | 1980 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 83.9 | 2 | 0 | 0.14 | 0.18 |
| 5 | 2023 | Courage | 23 | 23 | 2032 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 83.0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.04 |
| 6 | 2024 | Courage | 27 | 27 | 2430 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 85.8 | 4 | 0 | 0.04 | 0.04 |
| 7 | 2025 | Courage | 26 | 26 | 2340 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 81.3 | 1 | 0 | 0.04 | 0.04 |
| 8 | 2026 | Summit | 13 | 13 | 1170 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 91.2 | 3 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 8 Yrs | 148 | 148 | 13485 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 51 | 13 | 28 | 84.1 | 15 | 0 | 0.03 | 0.05 | ||
Advanced Stats
| Expected | VAEP | Threat | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Season ▴ | Team | Min | Gls | xG | G−xG | xG/90 | VAEP | Off | Def | VAEP/90 | xT | xT/90 | DAxT |
| 1 | 2018 | Courage | 572 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.56 | 0.75 | -0.19 | 0.09 | 2.06 | 0.32 | 0.153 |
| 2 | 2019 | Courage | 951 | 0 | 0.07 | -0.07 | 0.01 | 1.21 | 1.40 | -0.19 | 0.11 | 2.79 | 0.26 | 0.186 |
| 3 | 2021 | Courage | 2010 | 0 | 0.48 | -0.48 | 0.02 | 2.47 | 3.05 | -0.58 | 0.11 | 4.93 | 0.22 | 0.468 |
| 4 | 2022 | Courage | 1980 | 3 | 1.76 | 1.24 | 0.08 | 3.56 | 5.21 | -1.65 | 0.16 | 4.86 | 0.22 | 0.393 |
| 5 | 2023 | Courage | 2032 | 0 | 0.31 | -0.31 | 0.01 | 1.72 | 4.20 | -2.48 | 0.08 | 6.04 | 0.27 | 0.264 |
| 6 | 2024 | Courage | 2430 | 1 | 1.81 | -0.81 | 0.07 | 3.50 | 6.02 | -2.52 | 0.13 | 7.30 | 0.27 | 0.399 |
| 7 | 2025 | Courage | 2340 | 1 | 0.88 | 0.12 | 0.03 | 2.91 | 4.61 | -1.70 | 0.11 | 8.39 | 0.32 | 0.465 |
| 8 | 2026 | Denver | 1170 | 0 | 0.34 | -0.34 | 0.03 | 1.42 | 2.04 | -0.62 | 0.11 | 3.53 | 0.27 | 0.280 |
| 8 Yrs | 13485 | 5 | 5.65 | -0.65 | 0.04 | 17.35 | 27.28 | -9.93 | 0.12 | 39.90 | 0.27 | 2.608 | ||
Composite Rating
Our overall player rating, unique to this site: five components — xG, ball carries, passes into the box, defensive value, and goalkeeping — combined into one score and averaged across every selection-model run of the season. Rank is her place among all rated players that year.
| Components | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Season ▴ | xG | Carries | Box Passes | Defense | GK | Composite | Rank | Pool |
| 1 | 2026 | 0.296 | 0.374 | -0.778 | 1.094 | 0.051 | 0.521 | 82 | 385 |
Structural Roles
Start counts by role, per season — twice. Explicit is where the team sheet wrote her; Inferredis what a model reading only her on-ball events made of each start. The Read column states each season's verdict from the two most common roles.
| Explicit (Team Sheet) | Inferred (Event Data) | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Season ▴ | Starts | GK | FB | CB | DM | CM | AM | W | ST | GK | FB | CB | DM | CM | AM | W | ST | Read |
| 1 | 2018 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 2019 | 9 | 9 | 9 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | 2020 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 4 | 2021 | 24 | 24 | 24 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | 2022 | 30 | 30 | 30 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | 2023 | 31 | 31 | 31 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 7 | 2024 | 31 | 31 | 31 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 8 | 2025 | 26 | 26 | 26 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 9 | 2026 | 13 | 13 | 13 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 9 Yrs | 173 | 1 | 172 | 2 | 171 | played her role | |||||||||||||
Similar Players
Nearest neighbors by playing-style embedding (most recent embedded season). Similarity is cosine distance in style space, not quality.
| Rk | Player | Team | Season | Pos | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Naomi Girma | Wave | 2023 | Defender | 0.687 |
| 2 | Sammy Smith | Legacy | 2026 | Forward | 0.669 |
| 3 | Kristen McNabb | Reign | 2021 | Defender | 0.659 |
| 4 | Arin Wright | Stars | 2022 | Defender | 0.644 |
| 5 | Sarah Gorden | Stars | 2017 | Defender | 0.644 |
| 6 | Paige Nielsen | Dash | 2025 | Defender | 0.609 |
| 7 | Annaïg Butel | Spirit | 2024 | Defender | 0.600 |
| 8 | Rafaelle | Pride | 2025 | Defender | 0.594 |
| 9 | Esme Morgan | Spirit | 2025 | Defender | 0.588 |
| 10 | Phoebe McClernon | Reign | 2024 | Defender | 0.588 |