Brittany Mahomes

Brittany Lynne Mahomes (Matthews, born September 1, 1995) is an American sports team owner and retired women's soccer forward who last played for UFM Afturelding when it competed in Iceland's 2. deild kvenna. She is a founding co-owner of the Kansas City Current, a team in the American professional top-division National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).
==Early life==
Mahomes attended Whitehouse High School in Whitehouse, Texas. In her senior year, she was an All-East Texas forward with 22 goals and five assists. 
==Collegiate career==
===Texas-Tyler Patriots, 2013–2016===
Matthews did not expect to play collegiate soccer after graduating from high school, but played at the University of Texas-Tyler for the Texas-Tyler Patriots women's soccer team after speaking to players she knew there. At Texas-Tyler, Matthews was reunited with Whitehouse High School teammate Chestley Strother.
The Patriots were invited to the 2014 and 2015 NCAA Division III Women's Soccer Championships, losing to the Trinity University Tigers in the first round in 2014 and drawing 1–1 against Trinity in the first round of 2015 after extra time. Despite Matthews scoring from the penalty spot in the ensuing penalty shoot-out, the Patriots lost the shoot-out 3–4.
On October 13, 2016, Mahomes became the first player to score three hat-tricks in both a season and a career in the program; she finished the season with four., Mahomes's 78 total points, 31 goals, and 111 shots on goal were each the second-most by a player in Texas-Tyler history, trailing only Strother in points. Her 40 points and 18 goals during her 2016 senior season were single-season program records, and her seven-point matches on September 17, 2016, and October 15, 2016, were single-match program records. She graduated from Texas-Tyler with a bachelor's degree in kinesiology.
==Club career==
===UFM Afturelding, 2017===
In May 2017, Mahomes signed with Icelandic club UFM Afturelding when it competed in Iceland's third-tier 2. deild kvenna. Strother, her Whitehouse High and Texas-Tyler teammate, had already signed with another team in the league. Mahomes scored two goals in five appearances over her first and only season, and UMF Afturelding won the league and earned promotion to 1. deild kvenna. The club did not extend a new contract to Mahomes after the season.
==Entrepreneurship==
Mahomes retired from soccer in 2017 and returned to Kansas City to become a personal trainer. She sold exercise programs on Brittany Lynne Fitness, an online service, that she promotes as a social media influencer.
==Sports ownership==
===Kansas City Current, 2020===
On December 7, 2020, the National Women's Soccer League awarded an expansion team to an ownership group including Mahomes. The club, initially named Kansas City NWSL, took on the player contracts and draft picks of Utah Royals FC, effectively relocating the team. In October 2021, Mahomes announced the team's re-branding as the Kansas City Current and plans to build a stadium for the team on the Berkeley Park Riverfront of Kansas City, Missouri, and participated in its October 2022 groundbreaking ceremony. Mahomes also helped fund the Current's training facility, which opened in June 2022.
==Personal life==
Matthews married Patrick Mahomes II, whom she had dated since high school, in 2022. They have two children, a daughter and a son. Patrick Mahomes later joined Brittany Mahomes as a minority-stake owner of the Kansas City Current.
Brittany Mahomes's stepfather Paul died on November 11, 2018, at Arrowhead Stadium.
Category:1995 births
Category:People from Whitehouse, Texas
Category:American sports owners
Category:Women's Professional Soccer players