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Editor's Note: Chicago Red Stars President and CEO Peter Wilt returns for
his third weekly column on Pitch Invasion, pulling no punches as he grades the first season of the
league his own team plays in.
Sunday's Women's Professional Soccer All-Star victory over Swedish powerhouse Umea ended WPS'
first season and that makes this a good time to reflect on the inaugural year and analyze WPS'
progress.
Last season's Red Stars selected in WPS expansion draft
Defender Nikki Krzysik (top) and forward Danesha Adams (bottom) will continue their Women's
Professional Soccer tenure in Philadelphia in 2010. This past season's members of the Chicago Red
Stars were selected by the Philadelphia Independence in the first-ever expansion draft Tuesday.
In case you have missed anything, here are some recent links with Chicago pro soccer mention:
WPS expansion draft
• John Howell, Bleacher Report: Red Stars lose two subs to Philadelphia in WPS first expansion
draft
• Beau Dure, USA Today: Philly looks strong in WPS expansion draft
• Jeff Kassouf, The Equalizer: Grading the WPS expansion draft
Chicago Fire player development
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The seven hard working former Chicago Fire executives pictured above averaged about seven years
each with the organization. The institutional knowledge and relationships they took with them when
they left was significant.
A key for successful chief executives is to surround themselves with talented, hard working
people with good character.
On Monday the Chicago Red Stars of Women's Professional Soccer exercised the 2010 contract options
for nine players: Marian Dalmy, Ifeoma Dieke, Chioma Igwe, Carolina Jonsson, Brittany Klein, Ella
Masar, Jill Oakes, Megan Rapinoe and Natalie Spilger.
With Karen Carney, Kate Markgraf and Lindsay Tarpley also under contract, the team currently
returns 12 players from this past season's squad.
(Editors Note: We profiled Jill Oakes shortly before the start of the WPS season. A high
school and college soccer standout, Jill just wrapped her first season as a pro and will be a
regular contributor to Pretty Tough as she, and the league, gear up for a second season).
As I reflect on the roller-coaster ride I like to call the inaugural WPS season, my own personal
journey reads with the same dramatic exclamations of a thrilling 1920's newspaper headline.
(Editors Note: We profiled Jill Oakes shortly before the start of the WPS season. A high
school and college soccer standout, Jill just wrapped her first season as a pro and will be a
regular contributor to Pretty Tough as she, and the league, gear up for a second season).
As I reflect on the roller-coaster ride I like to call the inaugural WPS season, my own personal
journey reads with the same dramatic exclamations of a thrilling 1920's newspaper headline.
What an amazing experience being part of the inaugural Women's Professional Soccer season has
been! I'm a part of history. I'm a PRO athlete. But now it's the offseason, and so what next?
The difficulty as a player within this first-year league is that there is very little to count
on once the season ends.
What an amazing experience being part of the inaugural Women's Professional Soccer season has
been! I'm a part of history. I'm a PRO athlete. But now it's the offseason, and so what next?
The difficulty as a player within this first-year league is that there is very little to count
on once the season ends.
