Midge Purce
Midge Purce
Forward for the U.S. Women’s National Team and NY/NJ Gotham FC
Biography
Midge Purce is a forward for the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) and NY/NJ Gotham FC. Last season, she earned the MVP title in the 2023 NWSL Championship for her pivotal performance in the Gotham FC victory. The Harvard graduate serves as the youngest member of Harvard’s Board of Overseers—the university’s second-highest elected governing board. She is a founder of the Black Women’s Player Collective (BWPC) and was a part of the negotiating team who won the groundbreaking USWNT gender-discrimination lawsuit in 2022 ultimately, accomplishing equal pay for women in sports. Currently, she is executive-producing the first-ever exclusively-women’s-sports docuseries The Offseason, a six-episode, 30-minute series following 11 top soccer players in the U.S. while they train, party and live together in Miami for the offseason.