By Mike Woitalla (@MikeWoitalla) Tony DiCicco coached the USA to crowns at the 1996Olympics, 1999 Women’s World Cup and 2008 U-20 World Cup. We spoke to DiCicco about the state of youth soccer in the USA. SOCCER AMERICA: What are your general thoughts on state of theyouth game? It seems to me that if one […]
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College Recruiting: ECNL Class of 2015
Almost 89 percent of all seniors playing in the Elite Clubs National League have plans to play women’s soccer in college. For all the college-bound members of the ECNL Class of 2015, including theseven players who represented the USA in 2013 U-17 Women’s World Cup qualifying and the one player who represented the USA in […]
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Women aim not to get run over
By Paul Kennedy (@pkedit) U.S. women’s national team coachJill Ellis has a warning: “If we sit where we are, we’ll get run over.” The USA has won two Women’s World Cup titles and fourOlympic gold medals — including the last three in a row — and it puts more money behind women’s soccer than any […]
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A dream come true
Taylor Leach, a two-time first-team All-SEC defender at the University of South Carolina, will continueher quest to become a pro soccer player at the Houston Dash. Leach, who helped the Gamecocks reach the quarterfinals of the 2014 NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament, was not selected in the NWSLCollege Draft but she was immediately invited to […]
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NWSL Draft: Brian goes No. 1 followed by three Bruins
The second-year Houston Dash took U.S. women’s national team midfielder Morgan Brian out of the University of Virginia with the No. 1 pick in Friday’s NWSLCollege Draft. Three UCLA players went next: Sarah Killion to Sky Blue FC and Abby Dahlkemper and Sam Mewis to the Western New York Flash, which had four of the […]
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NWSL College Draft: Brian should make Dash run
The second-year Houston Dash should get a big boost as it is expected to take U.S. women’s national team midfielder Morgan Brian out of the University ofVirginia with the No. 1 pick in the NWSL College Draft that will be held Friday at 9:30 a.m. ET at the NSCAA Convention in Philadelphia. NWSL CollegeDraft: Round […]
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Soccer America Women's College Award Winners (1985-2014)
Florida State’s Dagny Brynjarsdottir is the first Seminole to be named the Soccer America Women’s Player of the Year but the 15th ACC player in the 29 years ofthe award. For all the Women’s Players of the Year, Freshmen of the Year and Coaches of the Year. SA WOMEN’S PLAYERS OF THE YEAR 1985 — […]
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Soccer America's 2014 Women's College Awards
Icelandic international Dagny Brynjarsdottir, who led Florida State to its first national championship, is the 2014 Soccer America Women’s Player of theYear. Andi Sullivan, who helped Stanford return to the College Cup, is the Soccer America Women’s Freshman of the Year. Florida State’s Mark Krikorian is the Soccer America Women’s Coach of the Year for […]
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The excitement of the unknown
Taylor Leach, a two-time first-team All-SEC defender, led theUniversity of South Carolina to the quarterfinals of the 2014 NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament. After starting out with the Gamecocks from Cleveland Internationals and Wayne High School in Ohio as areserve forward, she became one of the nation’s top center backs. Leach, who hopes to be […]
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Brian and Stolz take Hermann Trophies
Virginia senior midfielder Morgan Brian, a regular on the U.S. national team, became the fourth woman to repeat as the winner of the Missouri AthleticClub’s Hermann Trophy. German Leo Stolz, who plays for UCLA, was the men’s recipient. The winners were decided by a vote of NCAA Division Isoccer coaches whose programs are current members […]