Nicci Wright was named goalkeeper coach for the Washington Freedom in September 2006. A former player for the Freedom, Wright served as an assistant coach at UMBC in 2007 before joining the Freedom coaching staff full time.

Wright holds an NSCAA National Diploma and currently coaches in both the Freestate Soccer Alliance and Baltimore BAYS club systems.  Wright was an MSYSA Girl’s ODP coach for four years, leading her ’90 girls team to a Region I Championship. 

As a player, Wright started 38 international games as a goalkeeper for the Canadian National Team from 1996-2003. She recorded 11 shutouts, the third-most in Canadian women’s soccer history, and she is the only Canadian goalkeeper to win a game against the full U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT).

Wright joined the Freedom in 2003 and was a member of the WUSA Founders Cup championship team. From 2003-2006, Wright was one of only three international goalkeepers to play in the WUSA, and one of only 32 international players to play in the league. From 2003-2006 she played in more than 45 league, exhibition and international games for the Freedom, serving as a captain in 2006.

In 2002, Wright played in a Swedish Women’s League, elite Damallsvenska, for Alvik IK in Lulea, Sweden, where she was voted Footballer of the Year for Northern Sweden. In 2001, she played for the Vancouver Whitecaps of the USL’s W-League, recording five shutouts in nine games and leading the team to the national final. In 2000, Wright competed with the World All-Star Team playing against the USWNT in the Discovery Health Channel Women’s Soccer Tour, playing for Freedom Head Coach Jim Gabarra.