Lauren Lapomarda

Lauren Lapomarda
Lapomarda with Texas in 2024
Personal information
Full name Lauren Adrienne Lapomarda[1]
Date of birth (2002-05-10) May 10, 2002[2]
Height 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m)
Position Defender
Team information
Current team
 Þór/KA
Youth career
Solar SC
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2020–2024 Texas Longhorns 102 (4)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2025 Parma 1 (0)
2025–2026 Dallas Trinity 0 (0)
2026– Þór/KA 0 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 22:36, June 4, 2026 (UTC)

Lauren Adrienne Lapomarda (born May 10, 2002) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a defender for Besta deild kvenna club Þór/KA. She played college soccer for the Texas Longhorns, setting the program record for career appearances.

Early life

Lapomarda grew up in the Dallas suburb of Prosper, Texas, the younger of two children born to Larry Lapomarda and Adriana Lazo.[3] She is of Italian and Mexican descent and holds American, Italian and Mexican citizenship.[4][5] Her sister, Katie, played college soccer at San Diego.[3] Lapomarda began playing soccer at age three.[4] She played prep soccer at Prosper High School and club soccer for Solar SC. She won the USSDA under-16/17 national championship in 2019, with her club team led by her future Texas teammates Lexi Missimo and Trinity Byars.[3][6]

College career

Lapomarda played five seasons for the Texas Longhorns, making a program-record 102 appearances (97 starts) and scoring 4 goals between 2020 and 2024.[3][5] In her senior season, she contributed to a program-record stretch of more than six games without conceding a goal. She then helped Texas win the 2023 Big Ten tournament, being named to the all-tournament team after assisting Trinity Byars in a 1–0 semifinal win over Texas Tech and defeating BYU 3–1 in the final.[3][7] In her fifth season, she was given freedom to contribute more offensively and doubled her career scoring output with two goals and five assists.[3][8] She also helped lead Texas to victory in the 2024 SEC tournament (in their first season in the conference), scoring a golden goal in a 2–1 semifinal win against Arkansas to advance to the final, where they beat South Carolina 1–0.[9][10]

Club career

Serie B club Parma announced on January 18, 2025, that the club had signed Lapomarda to her first professional deal.[1] She made one appearance as the Gialloblu secured promotion to Serie A.[11]

In July 2025, Lapomarda moved to hometown USL Super League club Dallas Trinity.[12] Nearly a year later, on May 23, 2026, she made her club debut in the playoff semifinals against Lexington SC, playing the last few moments in a 2–0 loss.[13] Lapomarda departed from Dallas at the end of the season.[14]

On 15 August 2026, it was announced that Lapomarda had signed a contract with Icelandic club Þór/KA through the remainder of the Besta deild kvenna season.[15]

Honors

Texas Longhorns

References

  1. 1 2 "Lauren Lapomarda is Gialloblu". Parma Calcio 2022access-date=2025-01-27. January 18, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Lauren Lapomarda". Parma Calcio 2022. Retrieved January 27, 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Lauren Lapomarda". Texas Longhorns. Retrieved January 27, 2025.
  4. 1 2 Wilson, Payton (September 19, 2022). "Hispanic Heritage Month: Lauren Lapomarda". Texas Longhorns. Retrieved January 27, 2025.
  5. 1 2 Malinguez, Alistair (January 20, 2025). "Texas soccer's Lauren Lapomarda signs overseas with Italian side Parma Calcio". The Daily Texan. Retrieved January 27, 2025.
  6. ↑ Crooke, Dan (July 22, 2019). "Solar SC and FC Dallas bring home USSDA awards". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved May 15, 2024.
  7. ↑ "Light the Tower: Texas Soccer Wins Big 12 Conference Tournament Championship". University of Texas at Austin. November 7, 2023. Retrieved January 27, 2025.
  8. ↑ Deleon-Rios, Ylver (October 24, 2024). "Defending with passion: Lauren Lapomarda's impact after five years with Texas soccer". The Daily Texan. Retrieved January 27, 2025.
  9. ↑ Victoria, Hayden (November 8, 2024). "Lapomarda's Late Goal Sends Texas Soccer to SEC Championship in Double OT Thriller". USA Today. Retrieved January 27, 2025.
  10. ↑ "'Weathering the Storm': No. 21 Soccer wins first SEC Tournament Championship". Texas Longhorns. November 10, 2024. Retrieved January 27, 2025.
  11. ↑ "Rosa Parma Women – Femminile Serie B – Girone Unico Italia – 2024–25". tuttocampo.it. Retrieved July 22, 2025.
  12. ↑ Dallas Trinity FC [@dallastrinityfc]; (July 21, 2025). "New Player Signing ✍️ Welcome home, Lauren Lapomarda". Retrieved July 22, 2025 – via Instagram.
  13. ↑ McGowan, Dennis (May 24, 2026). "Dallas Trinity eliminated from USL Super League playoffs with a 2-0 defeat at Lexington". 3rd Degree. Retrieved May 25, 2026.
  14. ↑ Dallas Trinity FC [@dallastrinityfc]; (June 4, 2026). "Every training session, every challenge, and every moment along the way, @laurenlapo represented this club with pride and passion". Retrieved June 4, 2026 – via Instagram.
  15. ↑ "Þór/KA semur við Lauren Lapomarda". Kaffið.is - Heldur þér vakandi (in Icelandic). August 15, 2026. Retrieved August 16, 2026.
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