Virginia Soccer

The Washngotn Area Girls Soccer League has announced the selection of David Noyes as its first-ever Executive Director. Noy[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]es is a Northern Virginia resident and had a pivotal role in founding and administering the Future Soccer Club in Maryland, which he built out of Real Maryland FC, which was a USL club operated in Montgomery County, Md, from 2008-2012…..Lynchburg’s Katie Cousins was invited to the mid-December U.S. U18 Women’s Natonal Team training camp in California. This was the fourth U-18 WNT call up for Cousins, who plays club soccer for the Richmond Kickers. A true U-17 player, Cousins played for the U-18s last March at the 12 Nations Tournament. She plays soccer and basketball at Jefferson Forest HS and has verbally committed to attend the University of Tennessee upon graduation….Former James Madison Duke C.J. Sapong helped Sporting Kansas City win its second MLS Cup with a win over Real Salt Lake in a penalty kick shootout (7-6) following a 1-1 draw. Sapong convered his PK, which put Kansas City up 5-4 at the time…..Old Dominion University senior forward Tim Hopkinson was named University Division Player of the Year in the State of Virginia by the Virginia Sports Information Directors. Virginia men’s head coach George Gelnovatch was the VASID Coach of the Year, while the Cavaliers’ Jordan Allen was named VASID Rookie of the Year…..VCU senior midfielder Romena Bowie (Jamaica) has been invited to the MLS Combine in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., which concludes two days before the 2014 MLS SuperDraft in Philadelphia…..MLS has invited nine more participants to the MLS Player Combine in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., including Virginia Tech senior goalkeeper Kyle Renfro (Forest, Va.) who played club soccer for the Roanoke Star….D.C. United has announced that the club has signed 19-year-old Academy product and former Wake Forest player Jalen Robinson. The defender is the seventh Homegrown player in United’s history.