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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

NWSL – Updated Preseason Dossiers
by All White Kit
posted April 5, 2013 at 9:11am

  I’ve gone ahead and updated the preseason dossiers with the additions of a handful of discovery players who’ve officially been announced, while updating a few other profiles and team needs. Note that the formations projected graphical...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

NWSL – Preseason Wallcharts v2.0
by All White Kit
posted April 4, 2013 at 10:21pm

  These are messy (to say the least), but here, to the best of my knowledge, is the most complete source of preseason rosters at the moment. I would be very wary with some of these though, most notably Seattle (hasn’t released a roster, doing...more

Spirit down NCAA champion North Carolina, 2-0
by All White Kit
posted March 31, 2013 at 10:25am

  Player of the Match Tiffany McCarty scored and just missed getting an assist The puzzle pieces finally started to come together for the Washington Spirit today as their attacking players collaborated well enough to score two unanswered goals on...more

NWSL – Preseason Dossiers – Washington Spirit
by All White Kit
posted March 12, 2013 at 8:50am

  Projected 2013 Washington Spirit Lineup (Questionable Starters in Parentheses) 2013 Washington Spirit Preseason Wallchart v1.0 Free Agency Candace Chapman – D Canadian was a shocking omission from her nation’s list of funded play...more

NWSL – Preseason Dossiers – Sky Blue FC
by All White Kit
posted March 10, 2013 at 8:58am

  Projected 2013 Sky Blue FC Starting Lineup 2013 Sky Blue FC Preseason Wallchart v1.0 (Players in Red Currently Unlikely to Play in 2013) Free Agency Danesha Adams – F Well traveled forward was a budding star at both youth and college l...more

NWSL – Preseason Dossiers – FC Kansas City
by All White Kit
posted February 19, 2013 at 8:41am

  Projected 2013 FC Kansas City Lineup 2013 FC Kansas City Preseason Wallchart v1.0 (Players in Red Currently Unlikely to Play in 2013 Free Agents Jen Buczkowski – M Hammer and nails midfielder didn’t exactly look like the most pre...more

NWSL – Where We Stand Entering Free Agency
by All White Kit
posted January 27, 2013 at 11:36am

  (Note: I’ve generally included free agent signings that have be widely reported as happening in this analysis, though nothing has been made official yet.) In lieu of draft grades or anything, I decided to take a bigger look at what each tea...more

NWSL – Allocation Breakdown, Team Needs, & Potential Draft Targets
by All White Kit
posted January 16, 2013 at 8:41am

  Boston Breakers What They Got – Firepower. Though Heather O’Reilly is probably considered the anchor player for the Breakers, it’ll be Sydney Leroux that is likely to take upon much of the scoring burden this season. A super s...more

NWSL – Let’s Play Mock Allocation
by All White Kit
posted January 10, 2013 at 3:54pm

  So I basically took ninety minutes to crank this out. I divided the U.S. allocations into three pools based on perceived value/talent and the Canada/Mexico allocations into two pools based on the same thing. What I got seems pretty reasonable, I...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

Marketing the New League: a Rebuttal to Joanna Lohman
by All White Kit
posted November 29, 2012 at 7:17am

  About me: I’ve been a follower of women’s soccer since 1999, a Washington Freedom season ticket holder since 2001 (including the W-League era), and ran the primary Washington Freedom supporters’ group, the Freedom Fighters, from ...more

NCAA Soccer – The First XI for October 14, 2012 – Florida State vs Virginia
by All White Kit
posted October 15, 2012 at 7:56am

  Kristin Grubka & The FSU Defense Will Try To Make Another ACC Offense Disappear on Sunday (2) Florida State vs (15) Virginia – 1:00 PM As is the case with Duke’s showdown with Wake Forest, when Florida State meets Virginia on S...more

NCAA Soccer – Quick Mid-Major Non-Conference Reviews – Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, C-USA, Horizon, Ivy, MAC, MVC, NEC, OVC, SoCon, Sun Belt, America East
by All White Kit
posted September 23, 2012 at 8:27am

  Atlantic Sun The preseason consensus was… …that Florida Gulf Coast were slight favorites to retain their title, with Jacksonville and East Tennessee State also in the mix. So how’s that working out? FGCU looks to be holding...more

Hope Solo's Paradox (a book review)
by From A Left Wing
posted August 18, 2012 at 7:50am

Solo: A Memoir of Hope is the story of a deeply charismatic outsider. She is a lone wolf, but she was also a prom queen. That's the paradox of Solo's persona: she's the outcast in the middle of every drama, the anti-social social phenomenon. Solo m...more

Press Release: New U.S. Women’s Soccer League Forms
by All White Kit
posted August 9, 2012 at 4:47pm

  All the details below, as per a press release sent out by the Boston Breakers timestamped at 12:26 AM ET.   CHICAGO, IL (Aug. 9, 2012) - With the conclusion of both the WPSL Elite League and W-League semi-pro women’s playoffs an...more

Breakers Forced To Forfeit WNY Win; WPSL Elite Standings Shaken Up
by All White Kit
posted June 19, 2012 at 4:39pm

  In what just turns out to be an unfortunate case for everyone involved, the Boston Breakers were forced to forfeit what was a 3-2 win over Western New York on May 26. The new score is 3-0 in favor of the Flash and puts them in much, much better p...more

AWK’s Weekly Recap, May 28 – June 3
by All White Kit
posted June 5, 2012 at 2:32am

  This is a snappy recap of the week gone by in women’s soccer. There will be lots and lots of gerunds. Here’s the first edition. Oh, and hello again. It’s been too long.   Streaking. Two undefeated, former WPS clubs took t...more

WPSL Elite: Breakers Open With Sell-Out On Day WPS Breathes Its Last
by All White Kit
posted May 23, 2012 at 12:18am

The teams line up at sunny Dilboy Stadium before the Breakers-FC Indiana game last week. SOMERVILLE, Mass. – Officially, the plug was pulled on Women’s Professional Soccer last Friday, and while its certified demise led some that were out o...more

WPS Officially Comes to an End
by Sarah Hallett
posted May 19, 2012 at 5:40pm

With the official termination of the Women's Professional Soccer league the future of women's professional soccer remains unclear....more

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