One of the nation’s most promising young players hails from a club that hasn’t fielded teams in the ECNL nor the U.S. Soccer Development Academy. Allyson Sentnor, the15-year-old who stars on the U-18 U.S. women’s national team, joined South Shore Select at age 6. Sentnor and South Shore Select’s Lilly Reale were the only New Englandplayers on […]
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Preseason: NWSL teams open camps and release rosters
With the close of the international break and the return of their national team players, NWSL teams will get back to full strength and on with the work of preseason. Chicago Red Stars The Red Stars return 18 players, including 2018 NWSL Golden Boot winner and Best XI Sam Kerr and Julie Ertz. They also […]
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College-bound seniors: A checklist for an exciting and busy time
Between finals, proms and graduation ceremonies, you really want to make a smooth transition from high school to college. High school seniors are consumed with everything from completing finals,graduation announcements to attending those “once-in-a-lifetime social events.” Soon, you will be off to college and starting a new chapter of your life. So, in between cap […]
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Roster: U.S. U-20 women head to Spain
Coach Mark Carr is taking a 20-player U.S. U-20 women’s national team squad to a three-game tournament in La Manga, Spain. His team, which consists of 11 players born in 2000(the cut-off birth year for the 2020 U-20 Women’s World Cup), eight players born in 2001, and one 2002, will face Germany (March 1), France […]
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1. Matt Miazga debuted for struggling English League Championship club Reading in its 1-1 tie at Bolton Wanderers. The 23-year-olddefender, loaned to Reading by Chelsea after a nightmare spell at French club Nantes in the fall, was one of three newcomers who started for the Royals, who find themselves in a battle for survival.They remain […]
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1. Maryland junior Donovan Pines has signed with D.C. United. William & Mary’sAntonio Bustamante and Pines are the club’s 10th and 11th Homegrown Player signings. Pines, a 6-foot-5-inch center back, led the Terrapin defense that shut out all five tournament opponents en routeto the 2018 NCAA Division I title. 2. The Seattle Sounders promoted Chris […]
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NWSL College Draft: Selections in first two rounds
Chicago 1, 15 Sky Blue FC 2, 3, 6, 10, 11 Washington 4, 7, 8 NC Courage 5, 9, 14, Houston 12, 13, 16, 18 Portland 17Orlando City – Seattle – Utah –
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NWSL College Draft: Tierna Davidson leaves Stanford to turn pro
U.S. national team defender Tierna Davidson has decidedto forego her senior year at Stanford University to enter the NWSL College Draft that will take place Thursday in Chicago. Two other national team players, Lindsey Horan andMallory Pugh, have skipped college soccer altogether — in Pugh’s case after one semester of studies at UCLA — but […]
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1. Mark Geiger, who refereed at the last two men’s World Cups, has retired to become PRO’s director of senior match officials. Hewill oversee the work of MLS officials, leading the PRO staff in coaching education and working on improving on-field and Video Review crews who work in MLS. In his 21-year career, Geiger also […]
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Awards: MAC Hermann Trophy winners
Indiana men 1978 Angelo DiBernardo 1981 Armando Betancourt 1988 Ken Snow1990 Ken Snow 1994 Brian Maisonneuve 1994 Todd Yeagley 2004 Danny O’Rourke 2018 Andrew Gutman Most men’swinners: Indiana, Duke (8). Stanford women 2009 Kelley O’Hara 2010 Christen Press 2011 Teresa Noyola 2017 Andi Sullivan 2018 Catarina Macario Most women’s winners: North Carolina(9).