Wisconsin Soccer Central

Wauwatosa's Aryssa Mahrt is one of 48 players called into the first U.S. Under-14 girls national team training camp in two years.

Mahrt, a forward who plays for FC Wisconsin Eclipse in the Elite Clubs National League, is one of 34 players invited to the camp by coach April Kater who was born in 2002 – the others were born in 2003. The week-long camp starts Saturday and runs through March 26 at the U.S. Soccer National Training Center in Carson, Calif. 

The Under-14 national team didn't have any events in 2015 because players born in odd-numbered years play their first two years in the Under-15 program.

Mahrt is the second FC Wisconsin Eclipse player called into a U.S. national team camp in the past six months: Goalkeeper Jordyn Bloomer, a University of Wisconsin recruit from Hartland, was part of an Under-19 training camp in October.

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