With their first pick of the 2017 NWSL college draft, the Boston Breakers took midfielder Rose Lavelle, predicted by many to go #1 in the draft.
Lavelle comes to Boston from the University of Wisconsin. She has also been in and out of US women’s national team camps and will be at the upcoming January WNT camp. Lavelle could help Boston fill in a midfield that lost both Kristie Mewis and Louise Schillgard in the offseason. With Mewis and Schillgard both gone, someone is needed to form a good connection with the forwards, especially Natasha Dowie, and Lavelle can do that as well as act as a recessed forward to join the attack.