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The Kelley O’Hara to the Washington Spirit saga

According to reports on Sunday, August, 16 from Meg Lineman from The Athletic and Paul Tenorio, also from The Athletic, Utah Royals FC/USWNT defender was heading to the Washington Spirit via a trade.

Reporting with @PaulTenorio — according to sources, Kelley O'Hara of Utah Royals/#USWNT is heading to the Washington Spirit via trade.

Earlier today, Spirit traded Rose Lavelle's #NWSL rights to OL Reign for 2022 draft pick/$100K in allocation money (+ more conditional).— Meg Linehan (@itsmeglinehan) August 17, 2020

On Tuesday, August, 18, there was confusion on the initial reports that said O’Hara to Washington was a done deal when the Utah Royals FC front office denied the reports.