Vanessa DiBernardo

Internationally, DiBernardo was a member of the United States national under-20 team that won the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

DiBernardo was raised in Naperville, Illinois, where she attended Waubonsie Valley High School and helped lead the soccer team to state championship wins in 2007, 2008, and 2010.

[2][3] In 2009, she was named to the ESPN Rise All-American Third Team and earned Beacon News Girls Soccer Player of the Year and Chicago Sun-Times All-Area honors.

[6] Despite missing a portion of her junior season due to the 2012 U-20 World Cup, DiBernardo still led the Illini in points, goals, and shots.

[2] In October 2012, she was named Player of the Week by the Big Ten Conference, Top Drawer Soccer and College Sports Madness after scoring a hat-trick and helping the team defeat the University of Michigan.

In 2015 DiBernardo played in all 21 matches for the Red Stars, she scored 2 goals and provide 5 assists, and was voted by fans as the team Unsung Hero.

[16] DiBernardo suffered a stress fracture in her hip during the 2018 Thorns Spring Invitational which would sideline her for the first two months of the 2018 NWSL season.

[20] In 2021, DiBernardo started in the NWSL Championship final for the third straight year with the Red Stars, but her game was cut short by a 12th-minute injury.

[19] She played 2,433 minutes across all club competitions in 2022, starting in 29 matches across the regular season, NWSL Challenge Cup, and postseason.

She scored a goal and had an assist in a 2023 NWSL Challenge Cup match against her former Chicago Red Stars team on June 14, 2023.

[25] DiBernardo joined the Kansas City Current as a free agent in December 2022, signing a two-year contract.

[24] She debuted in April 2023 and scored a goal and contributed an assist against her former team, the Chicago Red Stars, in a NWSL Challenge Cup match that June.

[30] In August 2013, DiBernardo was called up to the senior national team camp ahead of a friendly match against Mexico on September 3 while still in college.