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Topical Gear Gives Female Athletes a Competitive Advantage on the Field in Preventing ACL Injuries
by Michelle Meier
posted May 18, 2013 at 9:12am

ACL injuries are one of the most devastating and long-term injuries athletes can endure and females specifically are eight times more likely to sustain ACL tears due to anatomical and hormonal differences than males....more

Topical Gear Gives Female Athletes a Competitive Advantage on the Field in Preventing ACL Injuries
by Michelle Meier
posted May 17, 2013 at 8:41pm

ACL injuries are one of the most devastating and long-term injuries athletes can endure and females specifically are eight times more likely to sustain ACL tears due to anatomical and hormonal differences than males....more

NWSL: Spirit embarrassed by Virginia in 6-3 loss
by All White Kit
posted April 8, 2013 at 8:48pm

  Kaili Torres scores for Virginia as Chantel Jones is unable to make her third successive save Time was, it wasn’t all that unusual to witness a match at the Soccerplex in which one team scored five goals in a half. However, that team was...more

Shorthanded Spirit fall to Terrapins, 2-0
by All White Kit
posted April 5, 2013 at 9:07am

  The only goal-scorer of the evening, Maryland's Alexis Prior-Brown, takes on Julia Roberts and Ingrid Wells This was almost the mirror opposite of Saturday’s game against North Carolina: team A has the run of play for the first twenty min...more

Spirit attack shoots blanks in scoreless draw with Duke
by All White Kit
posted March 25, 2013 at 2:35pm

  It was a goalkeepers' night, and here Harris makes one of her big saves to preserve the shutout Despite adding in their allocation of US and Canadian internationals to last week’s winning lineup – as well as getting Holly King home ...more

NWSL News: Spirit open preseason with win over Penn State
by All White Kit
posted March 18, 2013 at 11:35pm

  It’s hard to know what to take away from a game like this. Training camp only opened a week ago, and out of the projected starting lineup my AWK colleague Chris Henderson put together, only four players got minutes – Kika Toulouse, Tif...more

NWSL – 2013 Mock Draft v2.0
by All White Kit
posted January 18, 2013 at 9:33am

  There’s been unofficial twitter confirmation that Portland’s Kendall Johnson, who just completed her redshirt junior season for the club, has entered tomorrow’s NWSL Draft. Obviously, she’ll be a hot commodity and a likely...more

NWSL Draft – 2013 Big Board v1.0 – Mewis, Nairn, Franch Top The Board
by All White Kit
posted January 14, 2013 at 8:30am

  Here it is, in all its excess, the 2013 NWSL Draft Big Board. Fair warning, this does NOT take into account who’s declared for the draft, so a good many of these players may not even have tossed their hat into the ring. Allocated players an...more

Washington Spirit Allocation – First Thoughts
by All White Kit
posted January 12, 2013 at 10:58am

  I sat down last night and scored the USWNT allocation based on players I wanted here in Washington (and players I didn’t want), with each player getting one (no, thanks), two (meh), three (cool), or four (awesome!) stars. The result for th...more

NCAA Soccer – 2012 AWK Award WINNERS
by All White Kit
posted January 11, 2013 at 9:18am

  First of all, thanks to everyone who sent back a ballot and who voted in the fan vote. Participation was up in both this season, which is a nice sign. AWK Coach of the Year – Anson Dorrance (North Carolina) AWK Rookie of the Year – Ca...more

NCAA Soccer – 2012 AWK Award Fan Vote
by All White Kit
posted January 7, 2013 at 5:21pm

Here are the links to the polls for the fan vote for the 2012 AWK Awards. These polls will close at noon EST on Thursday. AWK Coach of The Year AWK Rookie of The Year AWK Golden Glove AWK Defender of The Year AWK Midfielder of The Year AWK Forward...more

NCAA Soccer – 2012 AWK Award Finalists
by All White Kit
posted January 7, 2013 at 5:14pm

Here are the finalists for the second annual AWK College Soccer Awards. The links for the fan vote will be up later in the day and posted here (and on twitter at @chris_awk). Winners will be announced on Thursday. AWK Coach of the Year Anson Dorranc...more

NWSL Draft – 2014 Prospect Watch – Dunn Heads Up A Potential Golden Generation
by All White Kit
posted January 6, 2013 at 10:17am

  The bulk of the U.S. U20 World Cup winning squad forms the backbone of a potential golden generation of draftees in 2014. Crystal Dunn is obviously the crown jewel and a near lock to go #1, but there’s plenty of heft behind her including sp...more

NCAA Soccer – 2012 AWK Award Semi-Finalists
by All White Kit
posted January 4, 2013 at 8:18am

Without further ado, here are the semi-finalists for the 2012 NCAA AWK Awards. Though the open ballot voting portion of the awards has ended, coaches who received ballots but who haven’t voted yet can still vote, though only for the listed semi-final...more

NWSL Draft – 2015 Prospect Watch – Ubogagu A Tenuous #1 In Top Heavy Class
by All White Kit
posted January 3, 2013 at 2:55pm

  Overall Top 5 Chioma Ubogagu – F – Stanford Abby Dahlkemper – D – UCLA Morgan Brian – M – Virginia Sarah Killion – M – UCLA Dagny Brynjarsdottir – M – Florida State There’s a fair...more

NWSL Draft – 2016 Prospect Watch – Roccaro Early #1 in Class Heavy With GKs, FWs
by All White Kit
posted January 3, 2013 at 8:30am

  And thus, we begin our journey in looking at what we hope will be the (distant) future of a successful North American pro league. For 2015 and 2016′s potential classes, I’m only looking at overall and positional top fives due to the m...more

NCAA Soccer – Mid-Term Recruiting Ranking Update
by All White Kit
posted December 26, 2012 at 7:49pm

  And the deluge of offseason content continues in earnest. Here are AWK’s latest recruiting class rankings for 2013 and 2014. The final rankings factor in incoming freshmen, international players, and transfers, but only the likely signed f...more

NCAA Soccer – Returning Starters for 2013
by All White Kit
posted December 20, 2012 at 8:06am

  Anybody up for some more offseason content? Here’s a provisional list of returning starters for each DI club next season, with conference changes for next year taken into account. This is mostly based on graduated seniors, but some players...more

NCAA Soccer – Year End Awards Index
by All White Kit
posted December 12, 2012 at 8:23am

  I put this together after last season, but decided to make this year’s version public, hoping that some will find it interesting or an easy reference. I’ve basically listed everyone who won an All-Conference or NSCAA year end award th...more

NCAA Soccer (Sort Of) – And Now For Something Completely Different…
by All White Kit
posted December 5, 2012 at 7:29am

  If you haven’t noticed, it’s the offseason, AKA the time for grandiose statistical projects. Yesterday, I got tipped off to Basketball State’s rather amazing list of total athletic expenses for DI schools and decided to have a g...more

NCAA Tournament – North Carolina Reigns Again: The Team Is The Thing
by All White Kit
posted December 3, 2012 at 2:20pm

  In a total team performance for the ages, it was perhaps apropos that the game winning goal that sent the national title back to Chapel Hill came off the head of Hanna Gardner, as good a representative as any of the Tar Heels’ magical season...more

NCAA Tournament – North Carolina vs Penn State – Stream of Consciousness Diary
by All White Kit
posted December 3, 2012 at 7:08am

  PRE – Stands look packed, as they should be for a game of this magnitude. PRE – Why even bring up the Sandusky thing in the presume? I mean, was ANYONE thinking about this before this match? PRE – Personally, I’m just happ...more

NCAA Tournament – College Cup Final Preview – Penn State vs North Carolina
by All White Kit
posted December 2, 2012 at 6:56pm

  (Projected Lineups and Formations) Penn State vs North Carolina – 4:00 PM EST -Sunday’s final will be full of high profile individual battles, but none will likely resonate as much as the midfield clash between seniors Amber Brooks...more

NCAA Tournament – Stanford vs North Carolina – Stream of Consciousness Diary
by All White Kit
posted December 1, 2012 at 6:43pm

  Chris’ Running Stream of Consciousness Diary of Stanford vs North Carolina PRE – Love that Foudy acknowledged the social media questioning of the goal being offside at the start of the broadcast. Tap into that niche audience, ESPN. P...more

NCAA Tournament – College Cup Semi-Final Preview – Stanford vs North Carolina
by All White Kit
posted December 1, 2012 at 8:28am

  Potential Tactical Lineup Based on Prior Matches Stanford vs North Carolina – 11:00 PM EST -North Carolina did a stellar job of defending from wide positions against BYU in the Elite Eight, with Katie Bowen and Meg Morris doing their bes...more

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