Clara Schilke

Clara Schilke (née Robbins; born September 12, 1998) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for the North Carolina Courage of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). She played seven seasons of college soccer for the Florida State Seminoles, winning NCAA championships in 2018 and 2021 and being named the ACC tournament's most valuable player in 2020 and 2021. She was drafted by the Courage in the first round of the 2023 NWSL Draft.

Schilke grew up in Stafford, Virginia. She began playing soccer "just to get out and do something". She played youth soccer with the Olympic Development Program and captained her club team, Fredericksburg FC's 98 Gold youth team, which went 41–2 in her last seasons. She played one year of high school soccer as a freshman at Colonial Forge High School, where she graduated in 2016.

Florida State won five ACC tournaments andtwo NCAA championships during Schilke's seven years with the team from 2016 to 2022. She redshirted her first year, then regularly started as a redshirt freshman in 2017. She played in only three games the next year before a season-ending injury forced her to sit out the Seminoles' run to the 2018 NCAA title. She scored her first goals for Florida State in the 2020 season in which she led the team in goals and assists with six each.

Schilke was named most valuable player of the ACC tournament twice: in 2020 for scoring twice in the first six minutes and adding an assist in the final against North Carolina and again in 2021 for scoring the lone goal from long range in the final against Virginia. She recorded a goal and an assist during the Seminoles' run to the 2020 NCAA final and two assists during their 2021 NCAA championship run. She considered leaving Florida State with the departure of longtime coach Mark Krikorian but returned for a seventh season in which the team defended its ACC title and made the NCAA semifinals.

Having received extra years of eligibility due to a medical redshirt and the COVID-19 pandemic, Schilke finished her college career with 110 caps, the most for a Seminole and second-most in women's college soccer history, and 17 career goals and 25 assists. She was named to the All-ACC second team three times in her last three years. She earned her master's degree in exercise physiology in December 2021.

The North Carolina Courage selected Schilke ninth overall in the 2023 NWSL Draft with one of their four first-round draft picks. She signed a three-year contract through 2025. She made her professional debut against the Orlando Pride on April 19, 2023, and played in two more games before suffering a season-ending Achilles tendon rupture the next month.

She married Gabe Schilke in July 2023.

As of May 27, 2023

Florida State Seminoles

• NCAA Division I women's soccer tournament: 2018, 2021