Jul 14
MOENCHENGLADBACH, Germany — The team would joke about it later, but the moment grew too chaotic for Hope Solo. The U.S. goalkeeper had to get away.
This time the former Washington Huskies standout from Richland left on her own, not at the insistence of others.
The Women’s World Cup soccer quarterfinals had reached penalty kicks Sunday after a stunning overtime comeback by the United States against Brazil. In a team huddle, forward Abby Wambach screamed at teammates to relax.
“Look who’s talking,” said midfielder Carli Lloyd, according to Solo, and some other players laughed edgily. Who could calm down with someone yelling at them?
A few players started punching Solo. These were fists of encouragement, meant to rouse and motivate her. But Solo felt her emotions rising when she needed to feel calm. So the 29-year-old walked away, strolled to the other side of the field in Dresden, and leaned on the advertising boards.
“We couldn’t find her,” U.S.
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Jul 14
The WCHA sent out a release today saying that Northern Michigan will be formally announced as a new member of the conference next week.
At the very least, that move will ensure that the WCHA will have six teams–the minimum number needed to retain an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament–once they lose seven of their programs to other conferences in 2013-2014. It does make the future that much more difficult for the CCHA as they try to add teams to ensure their own league’s survival.
Jul 12
Junior Faustine Dufka of the women’s soccer team recently wrote this fictional soccer story for one of her classes. She has decided to share her piece with Husky Nation by releasing two parts a week. Read part four below.
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I walked up the stairs slowly, on the tip of my toes, hoping my mother wouldn’t hear that I had gotten back from school. My father was still at work.
As I reached the landing, I held my breath. I was only a few feet away from our apartment door, and I knew the walls were thin. If my parents found out that I had been snooping around in someone else’s business, I would get in serious trouble.
As expected, the door was unlocked. No one had eve
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Jul 12
Woodinville softball standout Madi Schreyer has been named to the Canadian Junior National softball team after a 1 1/2-week tryout.
To make the team Schreyer, who has committed to Stanford, participated in a selection camp in Cloverdale, British Columbia, followed by a week-long camp at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C.
Jul 12
The Secondary Six sent out a press release today officially announcing the formation of their new conference.
First off, unless this conference plays their first game today, it’s dumb to send out a release like that on a Saturday afternoon, rather than waiting until Monday morning.
Despite the questionable timing, it’s unquestionable that the announcement made a big splash. In fact, a whole one paragraph of a ten paragraph AP wire story made it into the print edition of the New York Times on page 8 of the Sports Page. Page 7 featured a story on Dale Earnhardt Jr. fans harassing Jimmie Johnson on Twitter, so you know, it’s probably just bad timing at hitting a big news day. If I have to give up my Secondary Six moniker because this conference adds two more teams, the Page 8s is the new front-runner.
Now that the Secondary Six isn’t just conjecture and newspaper reports, the WCHA league office should be free to openly comment on it, and their plan for the future.
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