By Lisa Lavelle Between finals, proms and graduation ceremonies, you really want to make a smooth transition from high school to college. High school seniors are consumedwith 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 chapterof your life. So, in […]
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Concacaf Olympic women's qualifying results
The USA will play Trinidad & Tobago and Canada will meet Costa Rica Friday in the semifinals of the Concacaf Olympic women’s qualifying tournament with berths at the Rio Olympics on the line forthe winners. Canada got hat tricks from Duke’s Rebecca Quinn and Ohio State’s Nichelle Prince as it beat Guatemala, 10-0, and won […]
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Heavy U.S. influence in Concacaf women's qualifying
The Concacaf Women’s Olympic Qualifying Championship begins Wednesday in Texas with two berths in the Rio Games up for grabs. There is a heavy U.S. influence to the opposing teams. Amajority of Mexico’s team is American-born, while Canada is loaded with NWSL allocations and U.S. collegians. The seven opposing teams all have college players. Canada GOALKEEPERS: […]
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UCLA lands Pugh and Fleming in recruiting coup
UCLA has signed U.S. women’s national team player Mallory Pugh and Canadian Women’s World Cup veteran Jessie Fleming, giving them the best young players in both countries.Both players will be taking part in Olympic qualifying that begins next week in Texas. There was speculation that Pugh would turn pro and become the first player to […]
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Anson Dorrance is 2016 Werner Fricker Award Winner
Anson Dorrance, the longtime University of North Carolina women’s coach who guided the USA to victory at the inaugural Women’s World Cup in 1991, has been named the 2016winner of U.S. Soccer’s highest honor, the Werner Fricker Builder Award. “It’s a great pleasure to present the Werner Fricker Builder Award to the person who coached […]
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Soccer coaching moves this week
In a bid to strengthen its staff with a coach with an attacking background, the Colorado Rapids have hired former Scottish international John Spencer, who starred for the Rapids in 2001-04 andlater was the head coach of the Portland Timbers, as assistant coach. Spencer, 45, will be reunited with former teammate and current Rapids head […]
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Report: Mallory Pugh decides not to turn pro
So much for the Portland Thorns using the new NWSL player signing mechanism to land 17-year-old Mallory Pugh, who would have been the first player signed out of high school to join the women’sleague. Horace Pugh, confirmed to The Denver Post that hisdaughter, a high school senior, will attend UCLA, as planned, and there were […]
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Soccer coaching moves this week
Maryland has named longtime women’s college coach Ray Leone as its new women’s head coach, replacing Jonathan Morgan, who had resigned last November. Portland has named NickCarlin-Voigt, who spent the past four years as the associate head coach at UCLA, as the Pilots’ new men’s head coach. Leone ranks 21st among active Division I women’s […]
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U.S. U-23 women will face Ireland
The U.S. under-23 women’s national team, which is in camp with the U.S. women’s national team in Carson, California, will face Ireland on Jan. 25 at the U.S. Soccer National Training Center inCarson. The match will come two days after the full U.S. women’s team faces the Irish in San Diego. The squad includes five […]
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Update | NWSL College Draft: Thorns hold No. 1 and No. 3 picks, acquire Nadim
In wheeling and dealing that saw eight of the 10 first-round picks traded — three picks were traded twice — and three second-round picks traded three or more times, the NWSL College Draft boils downto this: Portland ended up with the first and third picks, putting it in line to take U.S. international Emily Sonnett […]