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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

Season preview: Washington Spirit Reserves
by All White Kit
posted May 9, 2013 at 8:56am

  Washington Spirit Reserves players during their second training session of 2013 - DC United Women fans should recognize at least three familiar faces So what do Lori Lindsey, Ali Krieger, and Tiffany McCarty have in common? Okay, they all play ...more

Maryland defeats ACF Torino, 3-0
by All White Kit
posted April 11, 2013 at 8:56am

  Maryland's #10 Riley Barger scored twice to lead her team to the win (file photo from 2012 regular season courtesy of Ken Herriford/KLH Photography) You’ve got to think that ACF Torino was licking their lips a bit after the Washington Spi...more

NWSL – Preseason Dossiers – Western New York Flash
by All White Kit
posted March 19, 2013 at 2:37pm

  (3-5-2) Projected 2013 WNY Flash Lineup (Without Carli Lloyd, Questionable Starters in Parentheses) (3-5-2) Projected 2013 WNY Flash Lineup (With Carli Lloyd, Questionable Starters in Parentheses) (4-4-2) Projected 2013 WNY Flash Lineup (W...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 – 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 – Seattle Reign
by All White Kit
posted February 27, 2013 at 9:31pm

  Projected 2013 Seattle Reign Starting Lineup (Without Megan Rapinoe & Teresa Noyola, Questionable Starters in Parentheses) Projected 2013 Seattle Reign Starting Lineup (With Megan Rapinoe & Teresa Noyola, Questionable Starters in Pare...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 – Preseason Dossiers – Boston Breakers
by All White Kit
posted February 11, 2013 at 8:03am

  Projected 2013 Boston Breakers Lineup (Questionable Starters in Parentheses) 2013 Boston Breakers Preseason Wallchart v1.0 Free Agents Kia McNeill – D McNeill always seemed like a natural fit for Boston given her background as a colleg...more

NWSL – How I Ranked The Forty-Five Supplemental Draft Players & How The Teams Did
by All White Kit
posted February 8, 2013 at 9:35am

  It’s now a poorly kept secret that not everyone chosen in today’s NWSL Supplemental Draft is actually going to suit up for their team. While the speculation is bound to continue all the way up to training camp, here’s how I woul...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 seems to be learning from predecessors
by Fair Game News
posted January 19, 2013 at 11:33am

By Laura Pappano It’s draft day for the National Women’s Soccer League. Don’t bother turning on your TV or tuning into sports radio.  Don’t expect NFL-style high drama. Thanks to the rise of cheap media, though, you can catc...more

NWSL – Chris’ (Not So) Live 2013 Draft Analysis
by All White Kit
posted January 19, 2013 at 11:16am

    LIVE! From the AWK Fortress O’ Doom, it’s Chris’ NWSL Draft reaction and analysis as he inches his way up the league’s official Twitter feed and tries to resist the urge to look at spoilers! It’s the annual ...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

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

Top Ten CanWNT Related Moments of 2012
by All White Kit
posted January 1, 2013 at 9:50am

  2012 can be looked back upon as a marquee year for the Canadian Women’s National Team. What began with tempered expectations of the team’s potential success as a result of their ill fated 2011 Women’s World Cup exploded into medi...more

Answers and Questions about the Washington Spirit
by All White Kit
posted December 12, 2012 at 6:03pm

  Professional soccer has returned to the nation’s capital for the third time, this time under a new name and organization, the Washington Spirit. Well, actually, the organization isn’t all that new as it’s the same one that&rsqu...;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

Kansas City Shock Announces Tryout Information for 2013 Roster
by anngaff
posted November 6, 2012 at 2:11pm

The Kansas City Shock is the first pro or semipro women's soccer team in the Kansas City area (and beyond). They have joined the Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL) and will field their first team for the 2013 season, which will be coached by Nicole Orti...more

A Match Made in Heaven: “A Celebration of Women’s Soccer”
by All White Kit
posted August 27, 2012 at 8:46am

  Laura Kane and Jess Hnatiuk of the Chesapeake Charge/Maryland Capitols defend against Lianne Sanderson of the DC United Women/All-Stars, who would score twice on the evening. (Ken Harriford) Somewhere in Heaven in the distant future, the all-ti...more

Back in… Green?
by Tiffany Weimer
posted August 22, 2012 at 2:44pm

Guess who’s back!? Back to blogging with much to catch up on. Two months of catching up to be exact. Quick summary? Sure. Summer in Connecticut  After I left Denmark in June, I decided to play for the New England Mutiny while I was home for...more

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