Former Beadling player Dixon Veltri has signed a two-year professional soccer contract with Maccabi Emek Hefer WFC of the Israel Women’s Premier League. Veltri was a three-year letterwinner in the previous three seasons for the Panthers after transferring from UNC-Wilmington, where she played her freshman year.

Veltri will join past University of Pittsburgh teammates Juliana Vazquez and Amai Pena as the third player under head coach Randy Waldrum to play professionally.

Veltri plans to start playing for Emek Hefer this month, after earning her master’s degree in sustainable engineering from the University of Pittsburgh at the end of the fall semester.