From left: Sally Cole, Brittney Macdonald, Iris Mora, Kay Hawke and Jenae Gibbons.
(photos by Tom Auclair, Zane Tanner, George Tanner/ColoradoSoccerNow.com)
I enjoyed the 2009 W-League season so much that I decided to put together an all-conference team
based on the games we covered at ColoradoSoccerNow.
The Real Colorado Cougars won two games during a three-game swing in Southern California,
beating Ventura County and Los Angeles and falling to W-League powerhouse Pali Blues.
Beth West, Becca Mays and Brittney McDonald scored for the Cougars in a 3-1 victory over Ventura
County, and Kellyn Farrell, a right midfielder who is a recent graduate of South Dakota State,
assisted on all three goals.
Force midfielder Maggie Doe, right, closes in on NY/NJ Sky Blue striker Natasha Kai during
the first half of their friendly on Wednesday at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.
(photo by Jonathan Ingraham/ColoradoSoccerNow.com)
Mother Nature gave them lemons.
Another collection of tidbits from the world of Colorado soccer:
GOOD NEWS FOR THE RAPIDS; BAD NEWS FOR THE FANS: On his Sounders FC Blog, Jose
Miguel Romero of the Seattle Times reports that international star Freddie Ljungberg won't be
making the trip to Commerce City for the Rapids' game against the Sounders on Saturday.
University of Colorado senior Nikki Marshall has been named to the 2009 Missouri Athletic Club's
Hermann Trophy watch list for the second consecutive season.
The Hermann Trophy is the most prestigious award in intercollegiate soccer.
Marshall is one of 45 players nominated for this award and is the first player in school history
to earn the nomination twice.
The University of Colorado soccer team was picked to place third in the Big 12 Conference in a
preseason vote of league head coaches, the Big 12 announced Wednesday.
Colorado is coming off of a fourth-place regular-season finish and a trip to the Big 12
Championship game, where the Buffs fell 1-0 to Missouri.
The Colorado Rapids will celebrate the newest addition to their Gallery of Honor during halftime
of the team's match Aug. 30 against the Houston Dynamo.
Former Rapids captain John Spencer will have his name and number hung permanently inside Dick's
Sporting Goods Park, becoming the fourth player in the Gallery of Honor.
