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NCAA Soccer – 3rd Annual AWK Award Preseason Shortlists
by All White Kit
posted August 5, 2013 at 10:38pm

  Here we are with the preseason watchlists for AWK’s third annual college soccer awards, voted on by a select panel of coaches (and yours truly). As a reminder, players with no college experience are not eligible for preseason shortlists, th...more

NCAA Soccer – (Quick) 2013 SWAC Preview
by All White Kit
posted August 5, 2013 at 9:10am

  The SWAC wasn’t exactly much to crow about last year after Roberto Mazza’s departure from Arkansas-Pine Bluff saw the league lose much of its little luster.  Alabama State did net some non-conference wins, but mostly, it was a cas...more

NCAA Soccer – (Quick) 2013 Great West Preview
by All White Kit
posted August 5, 2013 at 9:07am

  The nation’s most anonymous conference, the Great West has shrunk down to an unfathomable four teams as Houston Baptist and Utah Valley have found homes in the Southland and WAC respectively.  Some might wonder if it’s time for th...more

NCAA Soccer– Final 2013 Recruiting Rankings – North Carolina On Top Again
by All White Kit
posted July 26, 2013 at 9:31am

  I will say this: The gap between North Carolina at the top and Stanford at #2 was pretty much negligible. It’s a situation where you could easily label the Card as ’1a’ before a pretty sizable gap to UCLA at #3 and then another ...more

NCAA Soccer – 2014 Recruiting Rankings Update – Stanford Leads This One Too
by All White Kit
posted July 17, 2013 at 9:11am

Here are the updated rankings for the Class of 2014 through mid-July. I’ve also added a list of recruits that received the “maximum” number of points on my scale of one hundred. I suppose you could consider these “five-star” recruits in the ...more

NCAA Soccer – 2015 Recruiting Rankings Update – Stanford Leads Big Early
by All White Kit
posted July 16, 2013 at 7:04pm

  These are obviously ridiculously early, but Stanford are already strong favorites to end up with 2015′s top rated class. While much of the rest of the Top 25 is formed of the usual suspects, the likes of Tennessee, Pepperdine, and Colorado ...more

NCAA/NWSL – Quick 2014 NWSL Draft Big Board Summer Update
by All White Kit
posted July 3, 2013 at 9:38pm

  Note the quick part of the post’s title. Want to know more about many of these prospects? Consult my earlier update from January. Final big board coming after the 2013 college season. 1. Crystal Dunn – D – North Carolina 2. J...more

AWK NCAA 2013 Soccer Preview – 13 Truths About the 2013 Season
by All White Kit
posted July 1, 2013 at 9:08am

  I. This Could Be One of The All-Time Great College Seasons They’re all great if you’re a fanatic like myself, but 2013 could be a vintage year for all, as the ingredients are all there for a season for the ages. The talent level is a...more

Spirit doubleheader: amateurs win, pros lose
by All White Kit
posted June 17, 2013 at 10:33pm

  Despite the best efforts of captain Lori Lindsey, the Washington Spirit would be shut out yet again Do the Spirit professionals need to take some lessons from the amateurs? The Reserve team, playing against W-League rivals the New Jersey Wildca...more

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

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