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AWK’s 2012 NCAA Soccer Preview – DePaul – Dark Days Again For Blue Demons?
by All White Kit
posted June 28, 2012 at 3:54pm

  Rebekah Roller & DePaul Will Be Looking For Better Days in 2012 Preview Index General DI Independents Big East – Pittsburgh | Seton Hall | Syracuse | Villanova Big Ten – Indiana | Nebraska | Purdue Pac-12 – Arizona Stat...more

AWK’s 2012 NCAA Soccer Preview – Seton Hall – Steady Success At Last For The Pirates?
by All White Kit
posted June 24, 2012 at 6:07pm

  Katie Ritter Will Look to Drive Seton Hall's Offense Forward Again in 2012 In retrospect, it’s a little hard to believe that at one time Seton Hall played host to one of the very best players in the world, England and former Boston Breake...more

Red Stars Rally to Down Charge, 3-1
by All White Kit
posted June 24, 2012 at 6:03pm

  The Charge battle the Red Stars on a rainy night For 45 minutes Paul Riley looked like a prophet after predicting “they get somebody on the wrong day, they’ll beat them” about the Chesapeake Charge downing one of the WPSL Eli...more

AWK’s 2012 NCAA Soccer Preview – Utah – Another Big Challenge for The Utes
by All White Kit
posted June 24, 2012 at 5:42pm

  One For The Present & Future - Sophomore Avery Ford is Among Utah's Most Talented Youngsters Things weren’t looking all that good for Utah after four games in the 2011 season. The Utes were coming off a horrid 2010 that had seen them...more

In Honor of Those Who Pushed for the Right of Girls to Play
by Pretty Tough
posted June 24, 2012 at 5:38pm

As many of you may know, the anniversary of Title IX is TODAY. While this piece of legislation sought to grant equal opportunities for both boys and girls in all federal funded programs, it made the most impact in the world of sports. Before 1972 it was r...more

AWK’s 2012 NCAA Soccer Preview – Purdue – Looking For A Spark In West Lafayette
by All White Kit
posted June 23, 2012 at 10:31am

  Sophomore Alex Hairston Hopes To Get Purdue Firing Once Again in 2012 The entertainment has stopped abruptly in West Lafayette after some desultory seasons from a once vivacious Purdue program. The fleeting memories of the Boilermakers’ ...more

WPSL Elite: Boston Stops New England Behind Jones, Simon; Howarth Impresses In Defeat
by All White Kit
posted June 23, 2012 at 10:30am

  The teams line up before kickoff on a brutally hot evening at Dilboy Stadium. SOMERVILLE, Mass. – The record will show that the Boston Breakers defeated the New England Mutiny 4-2 Wednesday night, a result that brought us one step closer ...more

AWK’s 2012 NCAA Soccer Preview – Indiana – Pressure On or Pressure Off for Lyon & Hoosiers?
by All White Kit
posted June 23, 2012 at 10:25am

  Shoot to Thrill - Colombian International Orianica Velasquez's Goals Will Be Crucial in 2012 The poster child for Big Ten mediocrity for most of their history, Indiana’s fallen much short of even mid-table obscurity as of late. Memories ...more

2012 NCAA Soccer Preview: Does Gonzaga Have Enough Bite Up Front?
by All White Kit
posted June 21, 2012 at 6:01pm

  A Healthy Cassie Geerdts Might Be Gonzaga's Best Hope Up Front This Season Second chances don’t come often at the head coaching spot at the DI level in college soccer, so current Gonzaga head coach Amy Edwards is doing her very best to pr...more

2012 NCAA Soccer Preview: Does Syracuse Have Enough Juice for a Postseason Run?
by All White Kit
posted June 21, 2012 at 5:52pm

  Syracuse's Fate in 2012 Likely Rests In The Hands (and Feet) of Goalkeeper Brittany Anghel To resurrect a dead program, sometimes you have to look a little outside the box. And make no mistake about it, Syracuse was as dead as dead could be fo...more

Midseason WPSL Review: Chesapeake Charge
by All White Kit
posted June 21, 2012 at 2:21pm

  Evaluating the Chesapeake Charge is a very different business from looking at the Maryland Capitols or the DC United Women. For either of the latter two teams, anything other than going a couple of games into the playoffs would be a significant di...more

USWNT:On Final Stretch Towards London
by Sarah Hallett
posted June 21, 2012 at 2:21pm

The US Women claimed victories over Sweden and Japan at the Volvo Winners Cup as they make their final push towards the Summer Olympics....more

2012 College Soccer Preview: DI Independents Preview
by All White Kit
posted June 19, 2012 at 9:48pm

  It was a turbulent fifth season in Division I for Cal State Bakersfield. The Roadrunners had already been dealt a severe blow by another rejection from the Big West in the offseason when head coach Nicole Van Dyke left for an assistant position a...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

2012 College Soccer Season Preview: Five Questions
by All White Kit
posted June 18, 2012 at 9:30pm

  Defending Their Title Won't Be Easy For Stanford in 2012 The road to San Diego starts here. Yes, it’s that time again, where we speculate as the buildup to the new season percolates. Stay tuned to AWK over the next two months for team p...more

Charge Fall Twice in Tough Back-to-Back Matches
by All White Kit
posted June 18, 2012 at 11:34am

  The Chesapeake Charge defense holds off the Flash attack, as it did most of the day The Western New York Flash came to Old Mill School expecting a fairly easy match against one of the WPSL Elite’s amateur sides. They got a surprise. They ...more

Chesapeake Charge Visit Midwest, Get a Point
by All White Kit
posted June 12, 2012 at 3:09pm

The Chesapeake Charge concluded several weeks of road matches with a trip to the Midwest to take on FC Indiana (on Friday) and the Chicago Red Stars (on Sunday). They battled Indiana to a 1-1 draw but fell to first place Chicago, 5-0. Friday’s mat...more

DC United Women Win Battle of Unbeatens
by All White Kit
posted June 11, 2012 at 7:15pm

  Lianne Sanderson and Joanna Lohman team up in their first W-League game for the DCU Women The DC United Women went down to Fredericksburg on Saturday for what promised to be one of the toughest matches of their regular season, against the Impac...more

WPSL Elite Review: Strikers Wanted, But League Shows It Strengths, Too
by All White Kit
posted June 6, 2012 at 1:27pm

  The rain before the New York-WNY match left quite the scenery in pregame warm-ups last Sunday night. HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. – In the end, it was just a scoreless standoff between two of the best teams the 2012 version of WPSL Elite has to offe...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

Euro Cup 2012 & HIV/AIDS
by The Rabbit Hole
posted June 2, 2012 at 9:13pm

Photo from HDWallpaper.In 2005, the United Nations held the International Year of Sport and Physical Education and committed sport to assisting in Millennium Development Goal achievement.  Goal #6 is to help combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other disease...more

Pia Sundhage Names 2012 U.S. Olympic Women’s Soccer Team
by Pretty Tough
posted May 29, 2012 at 5:17pm

U.S. Women’s National Team head coach Pia Sundhage has named the 18-player roster for the 2012 Olympic Games. Eleven players make a return to the Olympics after helping the USA to the gold medal in 2008 in Beijing, China. Midfielders Shannon Boxx an...more

Tiffany Weimer: Fair Weather Friends…Not Family
by Tiffany Weimer
posted May 29, 2012 at 1:07am

Let me begin by saying that despite popular belief, the sun does come out in Denmark. Since the creation of the sun in Denmark in May of 2012, life has changed and my opinion of Life in this Northern Town has changed. People are coming out of their wint...more

USWNT: China No Match for US
by Sarah Hallett
posted May 28, 2012 at 4:02pm

The US women had an easy victory over the Chinese National team before a sold out crowd at PPL Park outside of Philadelphia, Pa....more

WPSL News: Toni Pressley Suddenly A Member of Western New York
by All White Kit
posted May 25, 2012 at 6:14pm

  Courtesy U.S. soccer After making her first appearance of the season with the New England Mutiny Sunday night against Philadelphia, former Florida St. defender Toni Pressley was abruptly – and somewhat surprisingly – let out of her ...more

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