Tennessee junior forward Hannah Wilkinson will re-join the New Zealand Women’s National Team for the Football Ferns’ two-match friendly series against the U.S. National Team on Oct. 27 and Oct. 30. The Kiwis will take on the U.S. at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in the first game, and travel back East to Columbus Crew […]
Soccer in Tennessee
Adult Finals Set For Murfreesboro
[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’] The 2013 Tennessee State Soccer Association Adult State Championships will be held at Richard Siegel Park in Murfreesboro, again in conjunction with the Youth State Championships, Nov. 9-10. Championships will be held in the Men’s Open division, as well as Men’s Over-30, Men’s Over 40 and Women’s Open divisions. [/show_to][hide_from accesslevel=’Subscriber’] Your subscription […]
A Thorny Trip The The NWSL Title
Another Championship For Cindy Year after year, talented players of music move to Memphis to launch their careers in Music City. After her junior year at Germantown High School, Cindy Parlow left Memphis, TN, for Chapel Hill, NC, to follow her dream. Memphis had been home for her as she grew up and fell in […]
Sanderson Proving To Be A Freshman Sharpshooter
It hasn’t taken Valerie Sanderson long to make a statement at the collegiate level playing for the Memphis Tigers. The Canadian freshman from Quebec became the first player in American Athletic Conference history to repeat as Offensive Player of the Week, after leading Memphis to a pair of wins over Florida Gulf Coast and Florida […]
Concussions Law Supports Trainers
Tennessee became the 45th state to have a youth concussion law when Gov. Bill Haslam signed the legislation in mid-April of this year. The law contains all three provisions of the National Football League’s model legislation. Parents must sign a conncussion information form before their child can participate in sports; any [show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]student-athlete suspected of […]
A Lady Vols Positioned For Success
Vanderbilt Commodores Seeking Respect The University of Tennessee and Vanderbilt University women’s soccer teams had similar beginnings turn into dramatically different endings in 2012. In Brian Pensky’s first year as head coach at Tennessee, the Lady Volunteers won seven of their last eight regular-season games to solidify their spot at the top of the Southeastern […]
Middle Tennessee Alum Was ’13 W-League MVP
It’s a long way from Y Felinhell, Wales to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, but Shan Jones made that trip to study and play collegiate soccer at Middle Tennessee State Soccer. It was a trip that was very successful for Jones. She majored in psychology at MTSU, and earned the nickname “speedy.” She had a knack for scoring […]
US Youth Soccer Elections At AGM
[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’] US Youth Soccer elected new board members at the annual General Meeting in Overland Prk during the US Youth Soccer National Championships. Evelyn Gill was reelected as vice president for another two-year term, Bob Palmeiro for another two-year term as Region I Director, Dennis Brumfield for another term as treasurer and Michael Humphrey […]
Tennessee Soccer
Two East Tennessee State assistant soccer coaches have been selected for the NSCAA’s 30 Under 30 year-long education and mentorship program. Debs Brereton, an ETSU women’s assistant, and Chris Cahill, a men’s soccer assistant, were among the 15 young female and 15 young male coaches chosen for this inaugural program. Cahill grew up in Atlanta […]
A Long Journey From Rocky Top
Aussie Goalkeeper Born In Tennessee Caleb Patterson-Sewell was only two years old when he and his family moved from Tennessee to Australia. Certainly not old enough for the Volunteer State to claim any part in his development as a soccer player. However, the native son, who was born in Hendersonville in 1987, has grown into […]