Midfielder Taig Healy, who recently completed a superb season at North Carolina State University, was added to the Fort Wayne Football Club roster Tuesday.
His signing is pending league and federation approval.
“Since my first call with Coach (Mike) Avery, I was very intrigued by the situation in Fort Wayne and the opportunity to play for this club,” Healy said. “All the people I have spoken to within the club have been lovely, so I’m excited to get going and be a part of history in this club’s first professional season.”
Healy is the seventh player to join the Fort Wayne FC roster, joining Javier Armas, Tiago Dias, Anthony Hernandez, JP Jordan, Michael Rempel and Reid Sproat.
Healy, a 22-year-old native of South Hampton, New Hampshire, helped NC State to the College Cup Final, in which the Wolfpack lost 3-2 in extra time to Washington. Healy scored the goal in the 87th minute that sent the match to overtime; Healy scored in four straight postseason matches to finish his college career.
“Taig is not just a talented player, he is one of those competitors who continually rises to the occasion,” Fort Wayne FC head coach Mike Avery said. “It’s clear to me, after tracking him over the past few years, that Taig has benefitted greatly from the culture his North Carolina State coach, Marc Hubbard, has created. When we see a player emerge in the toughest moments of a game or a season – just look at Taig’s scoring run during the NCAA tournament as one example – we know as a staff that he is the kind of player you can count on when tasked with building a new team for a new, higher level.”
In 22 matches last season, each of which he started, Healy totaled five goals and eight assists. In two seasons at NC State, he played in, and started, 42 matches, scoring 11 goals and 14 assists.
He was selected to the All-South Region Second Team in 2024 and 2025. He was First Team All-Atlantic Coast Conference in 2025, after being tabbed as a Second Teamer in 2024.
“As a player, Taig has the ability to play in multiple positions in the higher pockets of the midfield,” Avery said. “He has a great engine and covers a lot of ground, connects the game well, defends well, and has shown an ability to create goal chances – for himself and for others. Add a winner’s mentality to those characteristics and you have the makings of a very interesting player, and one who is a great addition to our Fort Wayne squad.”
From 2022 to 2023, Healy played at the University of New Hampshire. He had four goals and three assists as a sophomore and was named to the America East All-Rookie Team as a freshman.
Healy also had great success in the pre-professional level of USL League Two, in which Fort Wayne FC played until this season. Healy helped Seacoast United, based in Epping, New Hampshire, to the 2024 USL League Two championship; he had 13 goals and 11 assists, made the USL League Two Team of the Year, and he was finals MVP.
Fort Wayne FC opens training camp Monday, with the first regular-season match in USL League One at 7 p.m. March 7 against FC Naples in Naples, Florida.
Fort Wayne Football Club roster
Javier Armas, midfielder, 26 years old
Tiago Dias, defender, 24 years old
Taig Healy, midfielder, 22 years old
Anthony Hernandez, defender, 22 years old
JP Jordan, midfielder, 22 years old
Michael Rempel, defender, 24 years old
Reid Sproat, defender, 24 years old
About Fort Wayne Football Club
Fort Wayne Football Club, founded in 2019, is a professional soccer club playing its first season in USL League One in 2026. The club is building a state-of-the-art, soccer-specific stadium, Fort Wayne FC Park, that will open at Bass Road and I-69 in 2026. In pre-professional USL League Two, Fort Wayne Football Club won division titles in 2023, 2024 and 2025. For more information, visit FortWayneFC.com.
About United Soccer League
Founded in 1986, the United Soccer League (USL) is the largest and fastest-growing soccer organization in the United States, impacting more than 200 communities nationwide. The USL is the first and only organization to offer a comprehensive youth-to-professional pathway for both men and women under one ecosystem. This structure includes four men’s leagues: the newly announced, top-tier professional Division I league, the USL Championship (Division II), USL League One (Division III), and USL League Two (pre-professional). The women’s pathway includes the top-tier USL Super League (Division I), which debuted in 2024, and USL W League, the country’s leading pre-professional women’s league. The USL also oversees USL Academy, a progressive talent development platform, and USL Youth, a premier national youth platform.