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Jordynn Dudley
	Dudley in 2024
Personal information
Full name	Jordynn Araya Dudley
Date of birth	November 21, 2004 (age 20)
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	Florida State Seminoles
Number	11
College career
Years	Team
2023–	Florida State Seminoles
International career‡
2023–2024	United States U20
Medal record
Women's soccer
FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
	‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of September 21, 2024

Jordynn Araya Dudley (born November 21, 2004) is an American college soccer player who plays as a forward for the Florida State Seminoles. She helped lead the Seminoles to the 2023 national championship as a freshman. She won bronze with the United States at the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

Early life and college career

Dudley was raised in Milton, Georgia, the daughter of Georgette McCray and Donald Dudley, and has an older brother.^[3]^[4] She began playing soccer when she was two years old.^[4] She attended Cambridge High School and earned all-state honors in soccer all four years there.^[5] She also played basketball growing up and became her high school's all-time scoring leader with more than 2,000 career points.^[5]^[6] She played youth club soccer for United Futbol Academy, earning ECNL All-American honors in 2022–23.^[7] She verbally committed to Florida State University in October 2021, when the soccer program was led by Mark Krikorian, and signed a national letter of intent in December 2022 to play under new Florida State head coach Brian Pensky.^[5]^[8]

Florida State Seminoles

Dudley scored 14 goals with 9 assists in 22 games for the Florida State Seminoles in her freshman season in 2023.^[3] She scored a brace in a 3–3 draw against then-No. 1 North Carolina.^[6] In the postseason, she scored the first goal in a 2–0 win against Pittsburgh in the ACC tournament and assisted Onyi Echegini's first goal in the conference final.^[3] She scored three goals, two of them game winners, through the first five rounds of the NCAA tournament. In the national title game, she converted a penalty to open scoring and added an assist in a 5–1 victory over Stanford, making Florida State undefeated national champions.^[5]^[9] She was recognized as the ACC Freshman of the Year, first-team All-ACC, first-team All-American, and the most outstanding offensive player of the NCAA tournament.^[3]

Dudley recorded 9 goals and a team-high 11 assists in 15 games as a sophomore in 2024, earning first-team All-ACC honors. She assisted in all three rounds as Florida State won the ACC tournament; they lost in the second round of the NCAA tournament on penalties.^[3]

International career

Dudley was called into training camp with the United States national under-14 team in July 2018.^[10] She trained with the combined under-18/under-19 teams in January 2023 and the under-20 team three months later.^[11]^[12] She represented her country at the 2023 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, scoring on a header 25 seconds into the opening 6–0 win over Panama. The United States finished the tournament runner-up to Mexico, qualifying for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.^[13]^[14]

Dudley helped lead the United States to third place at the U-20 Women's World Cup, the country's best result since 2012.^[15] She started the opening match but missed the rest of the group stage after being in concussion protocol.^[16]^[17] She returned off the bench in the first knockout round, scoring in extra time to defeat Mexico 3–2.^[17] In the quarterfinals, trailing Germany 2–0, the United States came back in the last moments of regulation with a goal from Dudley and an own goal forced by Ally Sentnor in the 90+8th and 90+9th minutes; they advanced in a penalty shootout.^[18] After falling to North Korea, the United States won the third place game 2–1 over the Netherlands, its best result since 2012.^[15]