Why Hayley Dowd is on this page

Hayley Dowd (born September 7, 1994) is an American professional soccer player who played as a striker for AS Saint-Étienne. She previously played for Djurgården and the Boston Breakers.

Raised in Peabody Massachusetts, Dowd attended Peabody High School from 2009 to 2012. As of December 2020, she remains the school’s all-time leading scorer. Boston Herald called her “one of the most prolific scorers in state history.” She finished her high school career with 148 goals and 56 assists (204 points). A four time Herald All-Scholastic honoree, she led the varsity soccer team to a state championship win in 2011 and was named Gatorade Player of the Year.

Dowd played for Morön BK for the 2019 and 2020 seasons. During the 2019 season, she scored 33 goals and won the league’s Golden Boot award for most goals scored. During the 2020 Elitettan season, she scored 15 goals.

Dowd signed with Djurgårdens IF in Sweden’s top league, the Damallsvenskan, for the 2021 season.

Hayley Dowd at Soccerway

Boston College profile

Hayley Dowd at the Swedish Football Association (in Swedish)

Hayley Dowd club team profile at SvFF (in Swedish) (archived)

Sources

• Wikipedia — article.
• Wikidata Q97741181.

Heritage notes

Family root: diaspora-likely.

The directory threads Hayley Dowd back to the Ó Dubhda clan story via the surname-variants reality — the same family carried these spellings as it scattered. See the septs and the diaspora for the wider pattern, or the Clan DNA Project for the genetic connections being mapped now.