Wingate was born in Medford, Massachusetts, the second of four children of Carol and Steven Wingate, and raised in nearby Wilmington.[4][5] She started playing soccer at age four and played other sports growing up such as softball, basketball, and ice hockey.[6][7] She played ECNL club soccer for FC Stars.[8] She played one season of ice hockey as a freshman at Wilmington High School, leading the team with about 20 goals as a forward.[4][7]
Wingate played for her high school soccer team for two years, scoring 12 goals in about 10 games as a sophomore in 2015 and recording 17 goals and 5 assists in 13 games a junior in 2016.[4][7] She helped lead the Wilmington Wildcats to undefeated regular-season records, but they made early departures from the state tournament both years.[4][9] She was twice named the Middlesex League Player of the Year.[10] She committed to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish as a sophomore in 2015.[11] She suffered a knee injury colliding with an opposing goalkeeper in the spring of 2017, which sidelined her for more than a year up until two weeks before her first college game.[12][13]
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Wingate appeared in every game for Notre Dame Fighting Irish from 2018 to 2022, becoming a consistent starter in the middle of her sophomore year.[3] She scored five goals in her first three seasons before raising her production in her senior year with seven goals and five assists in 2021.[9] She scored two of her goals in the NCAA tournament, leveling in a second-round win over Purdue and netting in a loss to Arkansas in the third round.[3] She was named to the All-ACC third team; her shot accuracy of 0.640 was the best in conference.[6][14]
Wingate scored a career-high 14 goals and added 5 assists in her final college season in 2022.[9] She was named ACC Offensive Player of the Week twice, once for a second-half hat trick against Wisconsin and again for recording two goals and two assists in a pair of wins over NC State and Florida State.[15][16] She scored three goals in the NCAA tournament to help Notre Dame reach the quarterfinals, where they lost to North Carolina. Wingate was named first-team All-ACC and third-team All-American.[6][9]
Wingate was selected sixth overall by the North Carolina Courage in the 2023 NWSL Draft, the first of the Courage's four first-round draft picks.[10][17] She was signed to a three-year contract.[18] She made her professional debut in the 65th minute of the opening matchday against the Kansas City Current on March 25.[19] On June 14, she scored her first professional goal in stoppage time of a 2–1 win over the Washington Spirit in the Challenge Cup.[20]
Wingate scored her first NWSL regular-season goal in a 3–1 win over Racing Louisville FC on July 7, 2024, in her first appearance of the season.[21] On October 12, she responded to Christen Press's stoppage-time goal for Angel City with one of her own in the 90+10th minute, preserving the Courage's 21-game home unbeaten streak with a 1–1 draw.[22]
International career
Wingate was first called up to the United States national under-16 team in 2015.[8] She scored two goals in three games in an under-16 friendly tournament in Italy in May 2016.[23][24] She made three appearances with the under-16s at a tournament in the Netherlands in September of that year.[4][23] She played for the under-18 team on a three-game tour of England in February 2017.[25]
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