The 2020 National Women's Soccer League Draft begins on Thursday, January 16.

This year's draft pool is expected to include Sophia Smith and Ashley Sanchez. The pair have not officially entered their name in the draft, but both are included for the mock draft below. With the deadline to enter the draft on January 15, those two are included in the player pool, along with a handful of other names confirmed by TopDrawerSoccer.

So what could the first two rounds of the draft look like? Below is the 2020 NWSL Mock Draft.

FIRST ROUND

ORDER	TEAM	NAME	COLLEGE	POS
1		Sophia Smith	Stanford	F
2		Kaleigh Riehl	Penn State	D
3		Ally Watt	Texas A&M	F
4		Taylor Kornieck	Colorado	M
5		Zoe Morse	Virginia	D
6		Ashley Sanchez	UCLA	M/F
7		Evelyne Viens	South Florida	F
8		Tziarra King	NC State	M/F
9		Kaiya McCullough	UCLA	D

SECOND ROUND

ORDER	TEAM	NAME	COLLEGE	POS
10		Kelcie Hedge	Santa Clara	M
11		Natalie Jacobs	USC	D/M/F
12		Morgan Weaver	Washington State	F
13		Courtney Petersen	Virginia	D
14		Konya Plummer	UCF	D
15		Phoebe McClernon	Virginia	D
16		Camryn Biegalski	Wisconsin	D
17		Bridgette Andrzejewski	North Carolina	D/F
18		Julia Bingham	USC	D

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