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U.S. Women's National Team Assistant Coach Phil Wheddon Named Orange Head Coach
SYRACUSE – Phil Wheddon, an assistant coach and the goalkeeper coach for the United States Women's National Soccer Team, is Syracuse University's new women's soccer coach, director of athletics Dr. Daryl Gross announced today. Wheddon will join Syracuse full-time after the 2008 Beijing Olympics, providing the U.S. Women's National Team qualifies in April.
Mami Yamaguchi Signs Professional Contract With Umea IK
Tallahassee, Fla. - Florida State University and head coach Mark Krikorian has announced that junior forward Mami Yamaguchi will forgo her senior season to pursue her professional soccer career.
Former U.S. international Fair joins Chelsea Ladies
Chelsea Ladies announced Thursday that former United States international Lorrie Fair, the youngest member of the U.S. World Cup-winning team in 1999, will be joining the London-based team.
First Lady of U.S. soccer
Hamm dishes on Team USA, the new women's league
When the logo for Women's Professional Soccer -- the new top-flight league starting in 2009 -- was unveiled this week, the player silhouette in the middle was unmistakable.
It's Mia Hamm. (Jerry West now has some company as The Logo.)
Player, UNC settle; Dorrance apologizes
A sexual harassment lawsuit against University of North Carolina women's soccer coach Anson Dorrance has been settled, with the university agreeing to pay former player Melissa Jennings $385,000 and Dorrance issuing an apology to all his players for inappropriate discussions about sex.
The deal also requires the university to conduct a comprehensive review of its sexual harassment policies and procedures, according to a copy of the settlement obtained by The News & Observer. The settlement was approved last week by members of the UNC Board of Governors.
Putting Her Best Foot Forward
Women’s soccer has not been a booming business—but former player and Web-content maven Tonya Antonucci has a plan to bring it back and make it work.
Two weeks after she left her job running Yahoo Sports in October 2004, Tonya Antonucci attended a Stanford University soccer alumni party at Lake Tahoe.
After a few drinks, Julie Foudy, the former U.S. women’s national team captain, asked her old friend and teammate if she was interested in heading up the relaunch of a professional women’s soccer league in the U.S.
Women of Troy follow first-year coach to first national title
COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Almost a year after they learned the name of their new coach, three and a half months after they played their first game for him and almost four weeks after they commenced a long postseason march to the College Cup, USC's Women of Troy finally stopped running.
And they started celebrating.
Courage, WUSA came, went
Since the last time she played a professional soccer game, Nel Hayes has coached at Northwestern University, clerked in an Atlanta law firm, gotten married, had a baby and become the executive director of the Atlanta Youth Soccer Association.
“Time just flies,” Hayes said earlier this fall. “It seems like yesterday I was playing. I’ll still talk to people and it seems like stuff just happened. It was a long time ago.”
Not as long as it seems.
It’s been a little more than four years since Hayes, whose name at the time was Nel Fettig, was a defender for the Carolina Courage of the Women’s United Soccer Association.
Big East busts the bracket, Cheney's Hermann moment
What happened to the bracket?
At least the statue of Joe Paterno outside Beaver Stadium still gazed out over the rural Pennsylvania landscape when the bus carrying West Virginia made its way out of town Saturday afternoon. Luckily for the locals, it turned out the visitors were only interested in reducing the NCAA Tournament bracket to rubble.
In a weekend uprising as swift as it was surprising, the Big East seized control of this year's NCAA Tournament when three of its teams upset No. 1 seeds and advanced to next weekend's quarterfinals. In a matter of 17 hours stretching from Friday night through Saturday afternoon, West Virginia, Notre Dame and Connecticut brought the bracket to heel in an unprecedented manner.
First rounds full of upsets, rivalries and show-stopping performances
Which team made the biggest statement?
The enemy within did in Texas A&M's dreams of winning a national championship.
The enemy within the state of Texas, that is.
With this year's College Cup set for Aggie Soccer Stadium on the campus of Texas A&M, the hosts had a golden opportunity to play at home during the season's final weekend and win the Big 12's first national championship. Coming off a quarterfinal loss last season against North Carolina in which they pushed the Tar Heels as much as either UCLA or Notre Dame subsequently did in the College Cup, the Aggies spent much of this fall ranked No. 1 in the nation and cruised to a Big 12 regular-season title.