Hanson Sisters Named To US Olympic Women's Soccer Team

HANSON, MA — U.S. Women’s National Team head coach Vlatko Andonovski named the 18-player roster for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Wednesday and included some local names.

Kristie, 30, and Samantha Mewis, 28, who were born in Weymouth and raised in Hanson, will join the star-studded Olympic team alongside Megan Rapinoe and Carli Lloyd.

Putting both Mewis sisters on the team marks the first time that sisters have represented the USA on a world championship roster at the senior level, according to a release from USA soccer.

Both Samantha and Kristie played for the USA at the 2008 FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup in New Zealand, and at the 2010 FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup in Germany. The two separated for college, but were reunited on the national team in 2020.

Samantha Mewis was voted 2020 U.S. Soccer Female Player of the Year.

On Tuesday, Harpoon Brewery announced that the sisters helped collaborate on a session IPA calling it Team Mew-S-A with a chunk of the proceeds going to The Boys and Girls Club of Dorchester.

The U.S. Olympic Women’s Soccer Team will play two days before the Olympic Opening Ceremony– against Sweden at Tokyo Stadium on July 21, (5:30 p.m. local start time).