| Soccer:
Hope Solo, Megan Rapinoe collect 2011 Best of Soccer awards |
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By winning Best Performance
as well as Best Off the Field Performance for her stint on Dancing With The
Stars, goalkeeper Hope Solo led the US Women's National Team in collecting
11 awards at the 2011 US Soccer Best in Soccer Awards. |
| Soccer:
WPS retains top tier status, despite deficiencies |
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Short three teams, and
with the rest all located on the east coast, US Soccer nevertheless renewed
Women's Professional Soccer's top tier status for another year. The
three-year-old league can still be considered in its startup phase, since
only one of the remaining teams (Boston) is a founding member. The league
shed the other, Magicjack, in October following a running feud with its owner
Dan Borislow. |
| Soccer:
WPS future in doubt after Magic Jack spat |
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The storied women's soccer
franchise once known as the Washington Freedom was humanely put down by the
WPS league office October 25. From the start of the season, disputes between
the league and the team's outspoken owner over seemingly minor points like
stadium seating capacity, lack of sponsors' signage, and lack of website
and marketing have escalated. The owner was notoriously hard on his players,
precipitating a formal complaint by the player's union. |
| Tennis:
Urbina defends her Mercury Insurance Open Title |
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Top-seeded Nazari Urbina
of Tijuana overcame warm conditions and a young opponent to win the Mercury
Insurance Open Presented by Tri-City Medical Center Opportunity Tournament
at the San Diego Tennis & Racquet Club for the second consecutive
year. |
| Soccer:
Tarpley out of Women's World Cup with ACL |
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Lindsay Tarpley is out
for the 2011 Women's World Cup after injuring a knee in the waning minutes
of a friendly vs. Japan. Tarpley tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her
right knee with 15 minutes remaining in the match against Japan on May 14
in Columbus, Ohio. Tarpley tore the ACL in the same knee while playing for
the WPS Red Stars towards the end of the 2009 season. |
| Tennis:
Deja Vu for Indian Wells spectators |
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Something seemed quite
familiar to the thousands of spectators who braved the gale force winds for
women's qualifying on Monday. On court after court, players were wearing
the same dress. |
| Softball:
Team USA makes title game in World Championships |
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The USA Softball Women’s
National Team has secured a spot in the Championship Game of the 2010 KFC
World Cup of Softball in Oklahoma City, despite a Sunday outing that saw
the ISF 2010 Women’s World Champions fall to Canada.
The Americans lost 5-2 at the Amateur Softball Association
(ASA) Hall of Fame Stadium but still clinched the No. 1 tournament seed when
Japan topped Canada 4-0 in the night cap. |
| Soccer:
Sky Blue FC takes first-ever WPS Championship |
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Heather O'Reilly's lone
goal was enough for SkyBlue FC to defeat the Los Angeles Sol in the first-ever
WPS Championship presented by MedImmune Saturday afternoon at The Home Depot
Center in Carson, California. |
| Softball:
Danielle Lawrie named College Player of the Year |
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The Amateur Softball
Association of America (ASA), the National Governing Body of Softball in
the United States, announced today the selection of Washington’s Danielle
Lawrie (Langley, British Columbia) as the recipient of the 8th Annual USA
Softball National Collegiate Player of the Year Award. |
| Soccer:
Falk leads LA Sol to victory in WPS kickoff |
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The new Women's Professional
Soccer league inaugurated play Sunday with the Washington Freedom visiting
the Los Angeles Sol. The first goal in club and league history was recorded
in the sixth minute of the match, when Los Angeles defender Allison Falk
out-jumped a crowd of Freedom defenders in the penalty area to head in a
free kick from Japanese national team star Aya Miyama. Camille Abily added
another in the final minutes to complete a 2-0 victory. |
| Softball:
Jay Miller takes over as head coach |
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With the recent decision
by the International Olympic Committee to drop softball from the roster of
sports for the 2012 Summer Games, goal-setting now takes on a slightly different
meaning for players who now find themselves at the entry level of the
sport. |
| Gymnastics:
Cancer-awareness special to feature Shawn Johnson, Nastia Liukin, Shannon
Miller |
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Co-hosted this year by
Olympic gymnastics champion Mary Lou Retton and cancer survivor and Olympic
figure skating champion Scott Hamilton, the show will highlight current Olympic
champions Shawn Johnson, Nastia Liukin, Paul Hamm, Shannon Miller, and other
stars of the men's and women's US Olympic Gymnastics teams. |
| Tennis:
Henin, Glatch, Pivovarova get wildcards |
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2010 Australian Open finalist
and seven-time Grand Slam champion Justine Henin headlines the wildcard
recipients for Indian Wells, running March 8-21 at the Indian Wells Tennis
Garden. Henin, who won Indian Wells in 2004, recently returned to the Sony
Ericsson WTA Tour after retiring from the sport in May of 2008. The former
World No. 1 will be making her first trip to Indian Wells since 2006. |
| Soccer:
WPS replaces WUSA, seven teams announced |
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The new women’s
professional soccer league now has a name: Women’s Professional Soccer
(WPS). With the unveiling of the league logo and launch of its website, WPS
made its official debut at the NSCAA annual convention. Three W-League teams
will have shared ownership with pro teams in the lew league, launching Spring
2009. |
| Tennis:
Hantuchova, Davenport to try for third title |
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Pacific Life Open champions
Daniela Hantuchova and Lindsay Davenport will try to become the first three-time
women's champion in Indian Wells history this week. Standing in their way
is current Australian Open (not to mention the 2006 Pacific Life) winner
Maria Sharapova. Top-Ten players Ana Ivanovic, Marion Bartoli and Svetlana
Kuznetsova also shoot for their first title. |
| Softball:
USA downs Arizona 16-0 to start Beijing Tour |
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The USA Softball Women’s
National team opened the KFC Bound 4 Beijing tour on Tuesday evening in
dominating fashion with 16-0 victory against the defending National Champion
University of Arizona Wildcats. A crowd of 2,832 fans at Hillenbrand stadium
watched the Red, White and Blue tally 15 hits including four home runs. |
| Soccer:
USA downs China 1-0 to win Four Nations |
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The U.S. Women's National
Team scored a 77th minute goal off a header from midfielder Shannon Boxx
to earn a 1-0 victory over China and win the 2008 Four Nations Tournament.
It was the first tournament title for new U.S. head coach Pia Sundhage. |
| Water
Polo: SDSU wins seventh straight opener |
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The sixth-ranked San Diego
State women¹s water polo team opened the 2008 campaign with an 11-8
triumph over No. 10 Hartwick College on Thursday afternoon at the Aztec Aquaplex.
With the win, SDSU notched its seventh consecutive season-opening victory,
while Hartwick fell to 0-4. |
| Basketball:
Paris Johnson MWC Player of the Week |
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Averaging 20 points in
the team’s games with Quinnipiac and Western Michigan, scoring 15 versus
the Bobcats and 25 against the Broncos, San Diego State University freshman
Paris Johnson was named MWC Player of the Week. |
| Tennis:
Sharapova, Hingis headline Pacific Life Open |
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Pacific Life Open champion
Maria Sharapova returns to defend her title in second round action Friday.
Seeded players in her half include Jelena Jancovic and Anna Chakvetadze,
as well as Martina Hingis, who is fresh off her win in Tokyo |
| Softball:
Junior players rethink their futures following Olympic axe |
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With the recent decision
by the International Olympic Committee to drop softball from the roster of
sports for the 2012 Summer Games, goal-setting now takes on a slightly different
meaning for players who now find themselves at the entry level of the
sport. |
| Soccer:
WSII announces new women's pro soccer league to replace WUSA |
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Six investors in MLS markets
have committed to forming a new women's professional soccer league, which
will replace the former Women's United Soccer League.
The timing is such that the new league will get a boost
from the Women's World Cup in 2007. Los Angeles, Chicago, St. Louis, Dallas,
D.C. and one market to be determined will start play in 2008. |
| Soccer:
NCAA: SDSU Aztecs kick off conference play |
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Head coach Mike
Giuliano’s San Diego State University women’s soccer team kicks
off Mountain West Conference play with a pair of games this weekend at the
SDSU Sports Deck. The Aztecs will entertain Air Force on Friday at 4 p.m.,
followed by an 11:30 a.m. match against UNLV on Sunday as the front end of
a double-header with the men’s team. |
| WPFL
Football: Scorps snuff out New Mexico's flame |
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As the Scorpions took the
field under new Head Coach, Ray Peterson Jr., they knew their season was
all on the line. Lose, and they are inched out by New York's Empire State
Roar for the wildcard slot. Win and the are in.
Not only did they win, they crushed the opposing New
Mexico Burn 70-7. |
| Soccer:
USWNT beats Ireland 5-0 - for the fifth time |
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The United States women’s
national team looks in fine shape to advance to its fifth consecutive tournament
if the outcome of its July 23 international friendly against Ireland —
a resounding 5-0 victory — is any indicator. |
| Soccer:
WUSA Flashback - The past meets the present |
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One of the WUSA's founding
players, Tiffeny Milbrett, returned to a familiar stomping ground —
USD’s Torero Stadium — on June 2 when her current team, the
high-powered Vancouver Whitecaps, engaged the San Diego Gauchos women’s
team in a key Western Conference W-League match. |
| Basketball:
Siege, Chill seek supremacy in Pro Cup finals |
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March Madness? It appears
to be alive and well in the National Women’s Basketball League, with
this week’s Pro Cup playoffs offering a hint at a possible upset despite
the wide disparity in the records of the four entrants. |
