This video is from a recent high school girls soccer match between East High and Woods Cross in Utah. The girl that gets the shin/knee to the face is Makenzie Clark and Petiola Manu is the owner of said shin/knee. The other day USA Today had a short write up of the incident on its website:
Utah high school player kicks opponent in face, apologizes for her frustration
Salt Lake City's KSL also covered the incident:
East High knee to opponent's head caught on video
They best part about the clip is the fact that Clark didn't go all Cristiano Ronaldo or Carlos Ruiz or Fredy Montero after the incident.
Cynthia Navarette (Carthage) battles Laken Cooley (Mt View) in 2011
From the Howell County News comes Soccer deal one step closer for LHS, WSHS
The Willow Springs and Mountain View-Birch Tree school boards have approved a high school
cooperative sponsorship in girls' soccer, in which Willow Springs girls would play on the Liberty
High School soccer team.
The past two or three weeks have seen a mushrooming of discussion of women's soccer in the
United States, starting with the decision by Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) to forego playing in
2012 and attempt to "come back bigger and stronger" in 2013. As those conversations have begun to
move around the social media world, a number of topics heretofore not seen as relevant have come to
the table, from sustainable financial models for women's sports to the perceived lack of interest
in women's soccer vis-Ã -vis the men's game to the paucity of opportunities for players to make a
living from the sport.
The Webb City school board is being pushed once again to add Girls Soccer to the activities
offered by the school. You may recall in the Summer of 2008 when the School Board said no
Superintendent Ron Lankford said the R-7 Board of Education voted June 10 not to add girls
soccer and golf programs this fall based on his recommendation.
In yet another story from the Facebook page of the MSHSL, Park Cottage Grove girls soccer coach
Greg Juba achieved his 400th career win Wednesday night with the Wolfpack's 3-0 victory over
Bemidji. In over 30 years of coaching girls soccer, Juba has an overall record of 400 wins, 151
losses and 48 ties.
ESPN Announced on Thursday morning that Circle Pines, Minn., resident Jenna Roering has been named
to the 22 women Gatorade State Fall Girls Soccer Players of the Year Team. The Centennial junior
forward scored 34 goals and passed for 12 assists this past season, leading the Cougars (18-2-2) to
the Class AA state semifinals.
Five state sides are off to Burlington, Iowa, this weekend for the fifth annual Tournament of
Champions, a 32-team event featuring some of the top girls soccer teams from Wisconsin, Illinois,
Missouri and Iowa.
Milwaukee DSHA and Middleton are both in Bracket A, which appears to be the strongest of the
three eight-team brackets.
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.
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.
FC Milwaukee was rated as the country's 19th-best club for girls soccer in 2011, according to
Soccer America's annual rankings.
This is the ninth year the magazine has compiled rankings, with the number of clubs rated
varying from year to year. The only other time FC Milwaukee – or any Wisconsin club – has made
the list was in 2009, when the Nationals ranked 36th out of 40.
Morgan Brian - Gatorade National
Girls' Soccer Player of the Year University of Virginia Midfielder Morgan Brian has been named to
the roster for the U.S. U-23 Women's National Team training camp being held from Oct. 2-7.
Brian will be battling other top college and WPS players hoping to receive a call-up to the U.
There aren't many prep girls soccer teams in Wisconsin on a better run than Hartford.
The Orioles extended their unbeaten streak to 16 games on Thursday night with a 4-0 victory over
third-ranked Germantown, and broke into the Wisconsin Soccer Coaches Association Division 1 state
poll a day later at No.
Two long winning streaks continued on a chilly Thursday night in the Madison area.
Waunakee cruised past host Baraboo 6-0 in a Northern Badger Conference girls soccer opener, the
43rd consecutive conference victory for the Warriors.
Junior Abby Pandow had two goals and an assist for Waunakee (5-0-1), which has lost just
once in the 11-year history of the Northern Badger: A 1-0 setback against Reedsburg on May 20,
2003.
Just a few days into the prep girls soccer season, and there's already been a bit of an
upset.
Defending WIAA Division 1 state champion Appleton North lost its season opener, falling to
visiting Cedarburg 2-1 on Thursday night.
Junior midfielder Josee Stiever, an all-state pick last spring, scored the game-winner in
the 75th minute after Anny West equalized for the Bulldogs in the 30th.
Just a few days into the prep girls soccer season, and there's already been a bit of an
upset.
Defending WIAA Division 1 state champion Appleton North lost its season opener, falling to
visiting Cedarburg 2-1 on Thursday night.
Junior midfielder Josee Stiever, an all-state pick last spring, scored the game-winner in
the 75th minute after Anny West equalized for the Bulldogs in the 30th.
At least 20 high school seniors who have committed to NCAA Division I women's programs for the
fall played prep girls soccer in Wisconsin this spring.
So why aren't more of them playing in the Wisconsin Masonic All-Star Game on July 28 in
Whitewater?
Based on available information, it appears that only one Division I recruit – Appleton North
forward Christina Mauthe, who is headed to UW-Green Bay – is on the rosters for
the match.
Oregon had five first-team all-conference selections after going unbeaten to win just its second
Southern Badger Conference girls soccer title this spring – and only one has completed her
eligibility.
The junior trio of defender Kayla Kaeppler, midfielder Kara Jahn and forward
Lauren Hughes and freshman midfielder Kelsey Jahn all made the top team for the
Panthers along with senior defender Morgan Johnson.
Madison West's impressive defensive display last weekend at Uihlein Soccer Park was something
not seen at the WIAA state girls soccer tournament in 20 years.
The Regents and sophomore goalkeeper Meredith Thompson posted three consecutive shutouts
in winning the state championship, matching a feat previously accomplished by just five teams in
the event's 30-year history – the most recent team to do it was Mequon Homestead in 1992.
Evansville and Walworth Big Foot-Williams Bay were separated by the slimmest of margins in the
Rock Valley Conference girls soccer standings this spring, with the Blue Devils finishing one point
ahead of the Chiefs.
But the teams split the honors when it came to the All-Rock Valley awards.
Each team had three players on the 12-member first team selected by league coaches, while
Evansville senior midfielder Lydia Eager and Big Foot-Williams Bay senior defender
Brittani Isham shared Player of the Year honors.
During the USA's recent training camp in Princeton, U.S. U-17 Women's National Team captain Morgan
Andrews was named the 2011-12 Gatorade National Girls' Soccer Player of the Year, and she
got a special surprise when U.S. WNT defender Ali Krieger showed up at her school in Milford, N.
Great news for fans of the women's game here in Portland, of which I count myself as one, as the
Portland Timbers have officially announced a strategic partnership with the local WPSL club the
Portland Rain. Up until this moment, aside from some hints and juicy tidbits of information, the
Rain's future plans were entirely unknown.
Eclipse Select's Sarah RivichEclipse Select Communications
CHICAGO -- Eclipse Select Soccer Club midfielder and Crown Point High School junior Sarah Rivich is
coming off a stellar girls soccer campaign that included her recently being named The Times of
Northwest Indiana 2011 Girls Player of the Year.
Donal Kaehler, who led the Madison West girls soccer program to two WIAA Division 1 state
titles before resigning in 2008, has guided another team to a state championship.
Rocky Mountain beat two-time defending champion Boise 1-0 in overtime to win the Idaho High
School Activities Association 5A girls state championship last Saturday in Meridian.
