# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tara-rudd
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:03:57.882Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tara-rudd"
name: "Tara Rudd"
slug: "tara-rudd"
description: "Tara Leana Rudd is an American professional soccer player who plays as a center back for National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) club Washington Spirit and the United States national team. She played college soccer as a forward for the USC Trojans, earning first-team All-American honors in 2019. She was drafted eighth overall by the Spirit in the 2021 NWSL Draft before being converted to defender in 2023. She was named NWSL Defender of the Year in 2025."
tagline: "American soccer player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tara_Rudd_USWNT_v_Colombia_Mar_7_2026-78_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1999-07-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.28
  momentum:             6.355529131985731
  historical:           5.765702666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "تارا مک‌کیون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Rudd"
    title: "Tara Rudd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Rudd"
    title: "Tara Rudd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_McKeown"
    title: "Tara McKeown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_McKeown"
    title: "Tara McKeown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_McKeown"
    title: "Tara McKeown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97743635"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump