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6/15/2005 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
June 15, 2005
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA - The United States Under-21 Women's National Soccer Team, which features five current Tar Heel players, is in Vancouver, Canada, this week for two matches before dropping down to Seattle for a third. The camp will be the last for the U-21s before regrouping in mid-July for a short camp before traveling to Sweden for the 2005 Nordic Cup.
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U.S. head coach Jillian Ellis has brought a strong U-21 squad to Canada to face a British Columbia Select side on Tuesday, June 14th and the Vancouver Whitecaps Women of the USL W-League on Wednesday, June 15. The team will then travel back down to Washington to face the W-League Seattle Sounders Women on Friday, June 17, before breaking camp. Ellis will name the 2005 U.S. Under-21 Nordic Cup Team in early July.
The roster will consist of players born on or after January 1, 1984, but she will be allowed four "overage" players, meaning players born on or after January 1, 1981. The USA will be going for its almost unimaginable seventh straight title at the Nordic Cup, which features all of the top U-21 teams in Europe. The roster for the matches in Canada and the northwest features eight players with caps with the full Women's National Team and 11 players who have played for the USA in a FIFA U-19 World Championship.
Five players on the roster will have one day at home before traveling to join the full Women's National Team in Charlottesville, Va., on June 19 as the USA begins preparations for the match vs. Canada on June 26 in Virginia Beach, Va. (Live on ESPN2 at 3 p.m. ET). Those players are goalkeeper Nicole Barnhart, midfielders Lori Chalupny and Lindsay Tarpley and forwards Amy Rodriguez and Heather O'Reilly.
