Utahns Taegan Frandsen Ferrin, Sophie Post and Payton DeGraw won gold at the 2025 Deaflympics in Tokyo after beating Japan 4-0 on Monday.
Now, the U.S. women’s deaf national soccer team has won every Deaflympics tournament (2005, 2009, 2013, 2022, 2025).
Monday’s win also marked the team’s eighth overall world championship in its 20-year history.
The U.S. opened the tournament with a 5-0 win over Japan before steamrolling Great Britain 14-0 and crushing Australia 12-0 in the semifinal.
The team has never lost a game since its inception in 2005, winning 44 games and drawing once, which resulted in a win following a penalty shootout.
All three Utahns saw the pitch during the tournament.
Post, a forward, played in all four games and tallied three assists. Ferrin, a goalkeeper, started

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