I love playing sports for a long list of reasons, but I especially love sports because they
help define who we are:
- Sports give you confidence.
- Sports give you strength.
- Sports give you a voice (hence, the nickname Loudy Foudy). :)
- Sports teach teamwork and leadership.
#GoCardinal
Teresa Noyola scored from point-blank range Sunday to help top-ranked Stanford beat No. 3 Duke
1-0 and give the Cardinal their first NCAA women's soccer title after three consecutive attempts.
It was the perfect finish to Stanford's unbeaten season.
Stanford seniors Noyola, Camille Levin, Kristy Zuhmehlen and Lindsay Taylor finished their
college careers with a record of 95-4-4.
After pounding ACC tournament champion Florida State 3-0 on Friday night in the first
semifinal of the College Cup, Stanford has a chance to play once again for the national title.
The Cardinal advanced to soccer's version of the Final Four by completing its third straight
unbeaten season, a feat that parallels the great University of North Carolina teams with Mia Hamm
in the early 1990s.
The NCAA Women's College Cup, taking place this weekend at Kennesaw State Stadium in Kennesaw
will be the first NCAA soccer championship held in Georgia since 1968. And one thing is for
certain there will be a first-time national champion crowned at this year's NCAA final.
All four College Cup teams were seeded first in their respective brackets, and include three
ACC schools—Wake Forest, Duke and Florida State—and two-time NCAA runner-up Stanford, making
its fourth consecutive College Cup appearance.
Are you an athlete, coach, teacher or school administrator at a middle or high school? If so,
here's a great opportunity we heard about to apply for some state-of-the-art concussion software
which can help combat concussions.
According to the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, up to 3.
As a recently graduated high school senior, attacking center midfielder Morgan Brian already has
career stats that any soccer pro would envy. This past spring season she led her high school,
Fredericka Academy in St. Simons, Georgia, to a 17-2-1 record and a fourth straight Georgia
Independent School Association Class AA state title.
Now in its 26th year of honoring the nation's elite high school athletes with the Gatorade
Player of the Year award, The Gatorade Company presented the ninth annual Gatorade High School
Athlete of the Year awards to the nation's best overall male and female high school athletes this
evening.
In the female category, senior Morgan Brian of Frederica Academy received the 2010-11 Gatorade
High School Athlete of the Year award at a dinner reception in Los Angeles.
Brandi Chastain took the time out of a busy schedule that includes work as a member of the
Capital One Cup Advisory Board, a player for the California Storm of the Women's Premier Soccer
League, and raising her young son to talk a little bit about the USA and the World Cup, and the
Capital One Cup standings.
Last spring, Indi Armstrong Cowie performed her freestyle soccer routine for 76,000 fans during
halftime at a Chelsea-Manchester United match. This 16-year-old Scot moves the soccer ball like no
other girl on the planet.
Indie learned to walk chasing a soccer ball. At 10 she played on a coed team and once scored all
seven goals in a 7-6 win.
