By Mike Woitalla Miriam Hickey has been named Director of the U.S. Soccer Girls Development Academy, which kicks off its first season in August. Hickey, mostrecently Director of Coaching at the Troy Soccer Club in Michigan, is a FIFA women’s instructor who helped develop FIFA’s girls and women’s master’s program. Her soccer experiencedates back to […]
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Roster: U.S. U-15 girls start new cycle with 40-player camp
U.S. Soccer Women’s Development Coach Mark Carrhas called up 40 players for a Feb. 11-18 training camp at the U.S. Soccer National Training Center in Carson, California, thatmarks the start of the two-year cycle for the age group as U-15s before transitioning to U-17s in 2019. The squad consists of 2003-born players and two born […]
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Unseeded USA faces tough path to U-17 World Cup
By Mike Woitalla Failing to earn a seed at the Concacaf U-17 Championship that will determine the region’s four qualifiers for the 2017 U-17 World Cup in India, the USA facesstiff competition in its first-round group at the Panama-hosted tournament April 21-May 7. To advance to the second round, the USA needs to finish inthe […]
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U.S. Soccer holds girls striker-keeper camp
U.S. Soccer is holding its first striker-goalkeeper camp for U-15, U-16 and U-17 girls national team players. The Dec. 14-17 camp in Carson, California, gathers 22 attackers and seven keepers born in2000, 2001 and 2002 and is headed by Technical Director April Heinrichs, Development Coach and U-15 girls national team coach Mark Carr and U.S. […]
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April Heinrichs on Under-17 World Cup, Development Academy vs. ECNL and high school options
Interview by Mike Woitalla April Heinrichs, World Cup winner as a player in 1991 and Olympic gold medal-winning coach in 2004, was named U.S. Soccer’sWomen’s Technical Director in January 2011. We spoke to Heinrichs about the USA’s failure to reach the second round of the 2016 U-17 Women’s World Cup, the 2017 launch of the […]
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USA starts U-17 Women's World Cup with a rout
By Mike Woitalla The USA’s quest to win the U-17 Women’s World Cup for the first time began with a 6-1 rout over Paraguay in which Coloradan Civana Kuhlmann scored a hat trick. “The biggest thing we were looking for was three points,” said U.S. coach B.J. Snow, whose team faces Ghana on Tuesday (9 am […]
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U.S. girls seek glory in Jordan
By Mike Woitalla @MikeWoitalla The 2016 U-17 Women’s World Cup kicks off on Friday in Jordan, markingthe first time a Middle East nation has hosted a female soccer world championship. For the USA, which opens against Paraguay on Saturday, the U-17 World Cup is the only female worldchampionship it has yet to win. It finished […]
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Roster: U.S. U-15 girls head to final camp
The U.S. U-15 girls national team, coached by Mark Carr, head to the final training camp of this cycle before moving to U-17s in 2017 in Carson, California, Oct. 1-8 at the U.S.Soccer National Training Center. Carr’s team won the 2016 Concacaf U-15 Girls Championship in August, winning seven games while outscoring its foes, 49-0. […]
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Champions: U.S. U-15 girls perfect in Orlando; U-18 boys lift Czech crown
By Mike Woitalla The USA outscored seven opponents 49-0 and won the Concacaf U-15 Girls Championship with a 2-0 win over Canada in the final after a 5-0 win Costa Rica in thesemifinals in Orlando, Florida. Leading Coach Mark Carr‘s team in scoring were Payton Linnehan and Gabrielle Robinson, with eight goals each.Linnehan, because she […]
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U.S. U-15 girls reach Concacaf Championship semis
The U.S. U-15 girls national team, coached by Mark Carr, beat Bermuda, 12-0, at 2016 Concacaf U-15 Girls Championships to book a Aug. 19 semifinal against the Costa Rica-Saint Luciaquarterfinal winner. The USA, which opened with a 22-0 win over Trinidad & Tobago in the Orlando, Florida-hosted tournament, has outscored its five opponents 42-0. Photo […]