Alabama Soccer

Amy Cochran, a two-time first-team NAIA All-American at Lee University, has been named to coaching staff of University of North Alabama’s new women’s head coach Chris Walker as a graduate assistant coach. Walker was hired by North Alabama from Lee, where he was an assistant coach for the past three years….Former University of North Alabama soccer standout Nikki Brown (?) has been named a Gulf South Conference ‘Top Ten’ award winner for the third consecutive year. S[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]he is just the second student-athlete in GSC history to accomplish that feat. The 17th annual GSC Top Ten awards are based on athletic, academic and extracurricular achievement during the 2012-13 academic year and recognize the top five male and top five female student-athletes as the cream of the GSC crop…….Three BUSA 00 Elite boys have Been chosen to attend a national training camp. Carter Emack, Tanner Tessman, and David Wrona, who all play on the BUSA 2000 Elite Boys team, have been invited to train at the U.S. Soccer National Training Center in Atlanta, GA. U.S. Soccer Training Centers are single day, invitational training sessions run by U.S. Soccer staff for elite players in key soccer markets. The purpose of the Training Center program is to identify the best players for the U.S. Soccer Youth National Team program……Alabama FC, coming off a 1-0 loss to WPSL defending national champion Gulf Coast Texans, defeated the Georgia Revolution 3-0 behind goals from Rebecca Copeland, Charde Hannah and Mac Kelly …..Samford incoming freshman goalkeeper Katie Peters (Greenfield, Ind.) has been invited to attend the U.S. Soccer Under-20 Women’s National Team training camp, July 2-11 in Portland, Oregon…Birmingham United Soccer Association and Tuscaloosa United Soccer Club have agreed to create a strategic alliance to better serve soccer players in Alabama. This partnership is designed to create player development opportunities for players in both BUSA and Tuscaloosa United, and joins the already existing partnership between BUSA and Huntsville Futbol Club. The alliance went into effect at the beginning of June, 2013.

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