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Morgan Andrews Blog: Proud to play
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
Read More »Amanda DaCosta Blog: Snapshots of your life
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
Read More »Ashleigh Gunning Blog: Defining yourself
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
Read More »Morgan Andrews Blog: Impossibility is nothing
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
Read More »Ashleigh Gunning Blog: Unfortunate translations
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
Read More »Morgan Andrews Blog: Burnt out? Oh, please
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
Read More »Amanda DaCosta Blog: On Respecting Athletes
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,
Read More »Ashleigh Gunning Blog: On the road again
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
Read More »Ashleigh Gunning Blog: The business of resting
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
Read More »Amanda DaCosta Blog: Japan, Sky Blue FC connect through universal language
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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