Kathryn Diane Meyer was an American college soccer player who played as a goalkeeper for the Stanford Cardinal.
22 Facts About Katie Meyer
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Katie Meyer led Stanford to an NCAA championship in 2019, making two saves in the title game penalty shootout, and captained the team for the next two years.
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Katie Meyer trained with the United States youth national team from the under-16 to under-18 levels.
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Katie Meyer was born in Burbank, California, the middle of three children born to Steven and Gina Katie Meyer, and grew up in Newbury Park.
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Katie Meyer attended Newbury Park High School for her first three years of high school before transferring to Century Academy in Thousand Oaks, California for her senior year.
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Katie Meyer played club soccer for Real So Cal and Eagles Soccer Club as well as the United States youth national team.
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Katie Meyer committed to play college soccer for the Stanford Cardinal on October 10,2015.
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Katie Meyer became the Stanford Cardinal's starting goalkeeper after redshirting her freshman year.
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Katie Meyer did not lose a game in her debut 2019 season, keeping clean sheets in 10 of 16 appearances.
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Katie Meyer played a critical role at the NCAA tournament.
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Katie Meyer saved Taylor Otto's opening penalty kick and the sixth-round kick by Tori Hansen to set up the Cardinal victory.
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Katie Meyer was recognized as the most valuable player of the match, and video of her goalkeeping went viral online.
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Katie Meyer became team captain of the Cardinal in the 2020 season, which was abbreviated due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and made a career-high 49 saves in 14 games.
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Katie Meyer started all but one game as captain in her redshirt junior year in 2021.
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Katie Meyer was pursuing a degree in international relations with a minor in history.
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Katie Meyer was part of the 2022 cohort for the selective Mayfield Fellows Program which develops Stanford students to lead technology ventures.
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Katie Meyer trained with the United States national under-16 and under-17 teams in 2015 and 2016.
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Katie Meyer represented the under-16s at the Tournament of Gradisca in Italy in and was named as an alternate to the under-17 team for the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.
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Katie Meyer died in her dorm room in Crothers Hall, a residential housing building on the Stanford campus, on March 1,2022.
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The Katie Meyer family filed a wrongful death suit against Stanford on November 23,2022 in Santa Clara County Superior Court.
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Katie Meyer's father said his daughter was defending that teammate, who was a minor at the time.
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In 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1575, or Katie Meyer's Law, introduced by Assembly member Jacqui Irwin.