| Softball:
Danielle Lawrie named 2009 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. |
| Soccer:
WPS replaces WUSA, to start play in 2009 |
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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 Pacific Life Open
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. |
| 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. |
