It’s April 11th, 2018 – exactly 128 days until our home opener against West Virginia. Until then, we have a lot more work that needs to be done in order to prepare the 2018 fall soccer season. Over the four months until the beginning of our season, we have to finish our Spring season strong,…

Over spring break, I got the opportunity, along with 15 of my teammates, to go to Nicaragua to work the the the staff, volunteers, and participants in Fútbol Sin Fronteras, or Soccer Without Borders. Soccer Without Borders is a non-profit organization that began in Nicaragua to specifically gather young girls to play soccer, teaching them…

Today, every young, female, soccer player’s dream is to hear her name called at the NWSL College Draft. Every year since 2013, the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) holds this event at which the professional women’s soccer teams from this league select players. Now, the College Draft is not the only way to make it…

In the college game, women’s soccer is a fall sport, meaning that we are currently enduring the hell that is the “off” season – which isn’t really “off” at all. During the course of the spring semester, our hours of team “soccer time” are strictly regulated by the NCAA to the bare minimum. That means…

How do you know that you’re really at the most elite level of your sport? How do you know that among your athletic peers, you’re really one of the very best? H0w do you know that, in a sense, you’ve “made it” in your sport? Well, if you play soccer in the United States, it’s…

I would like to make the assumption, although I have never played on a men’s team, that it is very different playing on an elite team of women than a team of men. Simply, women are different. And when you put 28 overly competitive, high-achieving women on the same team together striving for the same…

It’s nearing the end of the semester, as November has rolled around and is passing quickly. You know what that means for fall sports – post season. This post season for Penn State Women’s Soccer, we have had some big, incredible wins, that we like to in general, call the “revenge tour”, and I’ll tell…

Most people are familiar with Major League Soccer (the MLS), the Men’s Professional Soccer League here in the United States. However, people are surprisingly much less familiar with the league’s female counterpart: The National Women’s Soccer League (the NWSL). It has not been an easy road in getting the Women’s League to where it istoday,…

Equal pay is a pressing topic all over our country today, especially concerning the pay of our United States National Soccer Teams, as our Women’s National Team is still paid significantly less than the Men’s Team, but why? With the recent loss of the Men’s National Team to Trinidad and Tobago, losing their place in…

Let me get this straight – this is a women’s soccer blog. In a globally man-dominant sport, the women’s side of the game just doesn’t get enough attention. Women’s soccer has been growing rapidly in many countries across the world in the past decade, and will hopefully continue to increase in popularity. However, for my…