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[FOUR THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT …] The 2012 Under-17 Women’s World Cup in Azerbaijan should be the first international test for Jane Campbell — assuming the Americans get the job done this time in qualifying — but a big future is already expected of her. She’s committed to Stanford for the fall of 2013 and wascalled up for the under-23 national team’s fall camp. For four things to know about Campbell …

GROUNDED APPROACH.Both her parents are former Navy pilots — indeed, Mike and Crystal Campbell met in Pensacola, Fla., where heflew in the Blue Angels. You’d think that Jane would want to fly planes also, but she likes being grounded just fine.

“I’m not afraid of heights or anything,” she says. “It’s just I really don’t like all the flippy-flips and G-forces and everything that comes with flying aplane. I have huge respect for my parents and everyone in the military, but I want to represent my country on the soccer field.”

GEORGIA PRODUCT. Campbell started out competitively with the North Atlanta Soccer Association at the age of 11. As she continued with the NASA Elite 11, she entered thegirls national team program at the age of 14 and has been a fixture ever since.

She has since moved on to another Georgia club, Concorde Fire Elite, whose girls program has taken off inrecent year. And she attends Darlington School, a boarding school that features three sports academies, one of which concentrates on soccer.

GIRL AMONG WOMEN. Campbell and defender Morgan Andrews, another member of AlbertinMontoya‘s U-17 national team, were the two youngest players invited to the under-23 national team camp otherwise dominated by WPS and college players.

Campbell is 5-foot-9, a nicesize for a female keeper, but small in build compared to some of the players in camp whose thighs were bigger than her waist, according to her mom.

GOALKEEPING TRADITION. It’s not too early to think of Campbell joining the elite corps of American keepers. She looks up to Hope Solo, star ofthe women’s national team. The goalies she worked alongside at the under-23 camp were Aubrey Bledsoe (Wake Forest) and EmilyOliver (Stanford).

If you go back the last two cycles, every girls world championship at which the USA sent a team awarded the top goalie honors to an American. Could Campbell liftthe Golden Glove award in Azerbaijan?