Penelope Hocking is a professional soccer player currently playing for Bay FC since August 2024, and previously for the Chicago Red Stars from February 2023 to October 2024. Hocking holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, attended Penn State University for further studies, and graduated from Canyon High School in 2018. In addition to a professional sports career, Hocking has experience in the technology field, working as a Networking and Cybersecurity Research Intern at USC Information Sciences Institute in 2022, and as an Assembly Integration and Test Engineer at Northrop Grumman in 2021, where expertise in developing drivers for RF instruments and constructing GUIs using C# was demonstrated.