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Morgan Andrews Blog: Proud to play

Morgan Andrews Blog: Proud to play

Jeff Kassouf May 12, 2012 2

Our first week here in Guatemala consisted of mostly two-a-day trainings. Every girl on the team not only pushed themselves to their limits but also their teammates. You may think I’m crazy, but for

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Amanda DaCosta Blog: Snapshots of your life

Amanda DaCosta Blog: Snapshots of your life

Jeff Kassouf May 10, 2012 0

Let’s start over. Wipe the slate clean. Start fresh! But why? I for one have used these phrases before, and I’ve heard them countless numbers of times coming from others as well. As I

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Ashleigh Gunning Blog: Defining yourself

Ashleigh Gunning Blog: Defining yourself

Jeff Kassouf May 5, 2012 0

Soccer is not my life. Go ahead and check to make sure you’re on the right site and reading the blog you thought you were reading… yep, you’re on a women’s professional soccer site

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Morgan Andrews Blog: Impossibility is nothing

Morgan Andrews Blog: Impossibility is nothing

Jeff Kassouf April 30, 2012 4

As I write this, my teammates and I are flying down to Guatemala City, preparing for the biggest battle of our lives together so far, the U-17 World Cup Qualifiers. We have trained our

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Ashleigh Gunning Blog: Unfortunate translations

Ashleigh Gunning Blog: Unfortunate translations

Jeff Kassouf April 29, 2012 1

I would like to encourage everyone reading this to let the 12-year-old who still lives inside them out; because that adolescent is going to get a good laugh. I generally am not one for

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Morgan Andrews Blog: Burnt out? Oh, please

Morgan Andrews Blog: Burnt out? Oh, please

Jeff Kassouf April 16, 2012 2

Aren’t you afraid of getting burned out? Don’t you get tired? Don’t you just get sick of it?  These are questions that people have been asking athletes since the day they started competing. The

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Amanda DaCosta Blog: On Respecting Athletes

Amanda DaCosta Blog: On Respecting Athletes

Jeff Kassouf April 12, 2012 5

So I read an intriguing piece of literature in the Wall Street Journal while I was eating my apples and cinnamon oatmeal on Wednesday morning (Editor’s note: The article is a few years old,

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Ashleigh Gunning Blog: On the road again

Ashleigh Gunning Blog: On the road again

Jeff Kassouf April 10, 2012 0

Here we are, less than a week out from the beginning of the season and I am starting to get that really excited/kind of nervous/a little apprehensive – but, mostly excited and a little

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Ashleigh Gunning Blog: The business of resting

Ashleigh Gunning Blog: The business of resting

Jeff Kassouf March 27, 2012 3

Ashleigh Gunning, right, realized that after 17-straight months of playing, it’s time for a short rest. It’s not something that your typical American is good at doing, and the longer I’m spending out of

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Amanda DaCosta Blog: Japan, Sky Blue FC connect through universal language

Amanda DaCosta Blog: Japan, Sky Blue FC connect through universal language

Jeff Kassouf March 26, 2012 5

Soccer knows no language; it is a language within itself. The way a ball moves on the pitch, might as well be writing. Every moment on the field creates a story, and this story

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