Dani Watt

Some Lesser Known Facts About Dani Watt

• Dani Watt started playing soccer and basketball as a child.

  

• During her school days at Waukesha West High School, she won the Wisconsin State girls’ Soccer Player of the Year twice.

• Dani Watt was a basketball athlete and was captain of the basketball team in both her junior and senior years.

• She played college soccer at Wisconsin from 2016 to 2019.

• On 19 August 2016, Dani Watt scored her first college goal against Illinois State University.

• That same year, she was selected to the All-Big Ten Freshman Team.

• In 2017, Dani Watt was chosen for the All-Big Ten second team.

• In 2019, she received the Big Ten Forward of the Year award, after which she was selected to the All-Big Ten first team.

• On 12 September 2020, Dani Watt played for the Chicago Red Stars in NWSL.

  

• In 2020, she played in three of Chicago’s four matches during the Fall Series before COVID-19 cancelled it.

• In July 2021, Dani Watt signed with Þróttur Reykjavík in the Icelandic Cup, Iceland’s top women’s league. During the match, at the 60th minute, she scored the third goal in a 4-0 semi-final win against the FH women’s football team.

• As a student-athlete at university, she won Big Ten Forward of the Year in 2019 and an All-America Second Team honour.

• Dani Watt has earned Academic All-Big Ten three times.

• In February 2023, she announced her retirement from soccer.

• Dani Watt is an animal lover and has a pet dog. She often shares pictures of her pet on social media.

  

• She likes travelling to distant places, swimming, and horse riding in her free time.