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 Some of the top girls soccer players in the Midwest will be playing in Madison this weekend.
An Elite Clubs National League Elite Player Development Program, featuring 45 players from FC Milwaukee, Minnesota Thunder Academy, Sockers FC-Chicago and St. Louis Scott Gallagher, will be held indoors at the McClain Facility on the University of Wisconsin campus.
Fifteen FC Milwaukee players were selected for the event, which includes training sessions and 9v9 games Saturday and Sunday. The Madison PDP is one of 10 scheduled across the country for ECNL clubs.
Players also will participate in the Nike Elite Training technical testing program and listen to a presentation from Lindsay Tarpley, a Madison native who has 32 goals in 125 career caps for the U.S. women's national team and played professionally in Women's Professional Soccer.
ECNL MADISON ELITE PDP
At McClain Facility
Saturday's schedule
Teams 1 and 2: Training, 9-10:30 a.m.; Game 1, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Teams 3 and 4: Training, 10:30 a.m.-noon; Game 1, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
Sunday's schedule
Teams 1 and 3: Game 2, 10 a.m.-noon
Teams 2 and 4: Game 2, 12:30-2:30 p.m.
FC Milwaukee players
Team 1: D Brittany Von Rueden, D Mariah Vichich, M Lindsey Holmes, F Sammie Haertle
Team 2: D Becky McGrath, D Samantha Sanders, M Brenna Koeneke, M McKenna Meuer, F Sara Waters
Team 3: M Jennifer Eberhardy, M Allison Jacobson, F Mackenzie Challoner
Team 4: D Holly Heckendorf, M Daniell Sobelman, M Caroline Fink - As previously announced, Sobelman and Hartland's Jordyn Bloomer (Lake Country United) were named to the 1997 Region II girls team for the U.S. Youth Soccer Olympic Development Program national development camp, which is Feb. 7 to 12 in Las Vegas. There is one more Wisconsin player on the team: Superior's Malley O'Brien, who plays for Duluth's Gitchi Gummi SC and in the Minnesota ODP. Rose Lavelle and Micaela Powers, two UW recruits from Ohio, and Elizabeth Bartels, a Marquette recruit from Omaha, Neb., are on the 1995 Region II team for the event.
- Jaime Colin (Kenosha Tremper/United FC) and the Region II team went 2-0-1 and tied for the best record at the U.S. Youth Soccer 1996 Boys Olympic Development Program Winter Interregional in Bradenton, Fla. Region II beat Region I 4-3, tied Region III 1-1 and topped Region IV 1-0.
- FC Milwaukee's Cara Walls (Wauwatosa East) is one of 10 nominees for the U.S. Youth Soccer Goal of the Year. Walls was named to the Big Ten Conference All-Freshman team for the University of Wisconsin last fall after helping lead the Nationals' Under-18 team to the U.S. Youth Soccer national championship. Voting for the award, including video clips of the 10 goals, will be available Monday on the U.S. Youth Soccer website and Facebook page.
- The Wisconsin Youth Soccer Association is creating a Development Academy, modeled off the U.S. Soccer Development Academy. The state program will be tested next year with eight to 10 clubs, with WYSA working with directors of coaching to finalize the details. The Development Academy model emphasizes a higher training-to-match ratio and requires higher levels of licensing for coaches.
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