Seattle Reign FC sign Emily Mason to one-year contract
By Becca Weinberg, edited by Charles Hamaker
Seattle, WA - Our Seattle Reign FC announced the signing of Rutgers University defender Emily Mason, in the first of two collegiate acquisitions for the club, through the 2025 NWSL season. Mason has become the first college player to sign with the Reign after the league’s transition away from the NWSL College Draft.
Mason started 72 of her 82 total appearances for Rutgers across four years with the Scarlet Knights, recording six goals and seven assists primarily as a centerback. During her first season in 2021, she was able to help lead the team to its first Big Ten Conference championship win with a 10-0 undefeated record in conference play which includes a 1-0 win over our University of Washington Huskies in New Jersey.
“We are excited to welcome Emily Mason to the Reign for the 2025 season. Emily is a smart, versatile and highly skilled defender with tremendous potential as a professional. Her impressive collegiate career and reputation as a leader and teammate speak volumes about her character and talent. We can’t wait to see her in a Reign jersey, and we’re confident she will make a significant impact both on and off the field.”
Mason has collected many accolades throughout her collegiate career, which include being named to the All-Big Ten First Team and United Soccer Coaches All-North Region First Team in both 2022 and 2024.
“I’m so excited to be joining Seattle Reign and making the move to the West Coast. It’s an incredible club and I can’t wait to get started and begin this new chapter in my career!”
The 5’10’’ defender also has multiple years of international experience, including winning a gold medal with the U.S. Youth National Team at the Sud Ladies Cup in 2022, and the Concacaf Women’s U-20 Championship in 2020 and 2022. During her most recent international appearance in 2022, Mason started five of seven games, scored three goals with one assist, and was named to the Concacaf U-20 Championship Best XI. That same year, Mason was also called up to represent the United States at the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica. Mason was just named to the U.S. Women’s National Team 24-player Futures Camp roster yesterday, and will join teammates Jordyn Bugg and Ainsley McCammon at the training camp.
Prior to attending Rutgers, the New Jersey native was named the 2019-20 Gatorade National Player of the Year and was a back-to-back New Jersey Gatorade Player of the Year in 2019 and 2020.
Mason is a strong, versatile defender that brings consistency and proven experience to the back line that now gets more depth and will mesh nicely with the current roster, and it will be exciting to see her on the pitch in 2025.
What’s next?
For the Reign, their next team event doesn’t come on the schedule until February 16th and 22nd when they will head down to the Coachella Valley Invitational at the Empire Polo Club for preseason exhibition matches against Bay FC and Angel City FC. Outside of that it’s largely quiet until the primary transfer window opens on January 28th and lasts through March 24th. Seattle should still be looking to add to their roster ahead of the 2025 season beginning, and will look to do so as they prepare for the preseason which swiftly approaches.
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Cover photo by Steve Hockstein/Rutgers Athletics.
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