The NYW 05G's ODP State Team won the East Region ODP Tournament Championship on Sunday, June 20th. They defeated the Virginia State Team by a score of 2-1 at the Chase Center, the multi-purpose training facility owned by the Philadelphia 76ers, in Wilmington, DE.

 

In semi-final play on Saturday, June 19th, NYW battled the NJ State Team to a 1-1 tie before advancing 4-2 on penalty kicks. Emily Hanrahan, Jailyn Parrotte and Wrianna Hudson calmly converted the first three NYW attempts. NJ kept pace until their third attempt sailed wide. NYW GK Catherine Apker proceeded to step up and bury the fourth NYW attempt and then fellow NYW GK Megan Fry secured their ticket into the championship final by saving NJ's fourth penalty kick attempt.  

 

The NYW 05G's State Team was comprised of players from eight different clubs within the NYSWYSA footprint. The team went unbeaten through both the group and knockout stage of the tournament and was led by Head Coach, Nate Wiley (Head Women's Soccer Coach, SUNY Geneseo) and Assistant Coach, Brian McGrane (Head Women's Soccer Coach, SUNY Oswego).

 

Congrats Ladies and Coaches!!!

I’ve seen a lot in my 18 years of coaching. But last night was definitely a first. The team we were playing against had a goalie with no shoes. When the referee noticed he stopped the game and was talking to the player. He then proceeded to take his turf shoes off and give them to the player to wear. He officiated the rest of the game barefoot.

With the season underway, many clubs are making plans to hold tryouts for next season in the coming months. In order to make it easier for our members to locate tryout details, we will be adding a list on our website with club names and links to their tryout pages.

If you are a club who would like to have your information included on our list, please email pwhitcomb@nywysa.org

There are some exciting structural changes to the divisional formats for the conference starting this fall for the 2021-22 seasonal year.

Registration for the Fall 2021 season is now open and will be open until July 1, 2021. Click Here to Register

Today we are posting to fill the role of USYS National League Commissioner. As I wrote in the job description, the “Commissioner will supervise a nationwide network of talented staff, supporting the overall growth and success of the league and the sport. He/she will be a persuasive entrepreneur/visionary with a dynamic, commanding personality that has an insatiable appetite to make the National League inarguably the best, most prestigious, sought-after youth soccer league the world has ever seen”.

As the U.S. Women’s National Team prepares for this summer’s delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics, AT&T, the official 5G wireless network of U.S. Soccer, is bringing a new level of interactivity to fans with its “Pose with the Pros On the Go” digital experience. The program connects fans with USWNT stars, allowing fans to take augmented reality photos with their favorite U.S. players from the comfort of their own homes.

I’m sure you’ve heard the old adage, success is when preparation meets opportunity. Well, the prep part of that should be on a regular basis throughout the entire season. If your child is having to change a lot of what they are doing in order to “prepare” for tryouts, then there is a much bigger issue at hand.

Is the future of American soccer 16-year-old Francis Jacobs, a midfielder for Orange County Soccer Club in the United Soccer League? At age 14, Jacobs became the youngest player in American history to sign a professional contract, attracting attention from fans and media across the country.