| Softball:
Team USA makes title game in World Championships |
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The USA Softball Women’s National Team has
secured a spot in the Championship Game of the 2010 KFC World Cup of
Softball in Oklahoma City, despite a Sunday outing that saw the ISF
2010 Women’s World Champions fall to Canada.
The
Americans lost 5-2 at the Amateur Softball Association (ASA) Hall of
Fame Stadium but still clinched the No. 1 tournament seed when Japan
topped Canada 4-0 in the night cap.
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| Soccer:
Sky Blue FC takes first-ever WPS Championship |
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Heather O'Reilly's lone goal was enough for
SkyBlue FC to defeat the Los Angeles Sol in the first-ever WPS
Championship presented by MedImmune Saturday afternoon at The Home
Depot Center in Carson, California. |
| Softball:
Danielle Lawrie named College Player of the Year |
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The Amateur Softball Association of America
(ASA), the National Governing Body of Softball in the United States,
announced today the selection of Washington’s Danielle Lawrie (Langley,
British Columbia) as the recipient of the 8th Annual USA Softball
National Collegiate Player of the Year Award. |
| Soccer:
Falk leads LA Sol to victory in WPS kickoff |
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The new Women's Professional Soccer league
inaugurated play Sunday with the Washington Freedom visiting the Los
Angeles Sol. The first goal in club and league history was recorded in
the sixth minute of the match, when Los Angeles defender Allison Falk
out-jumped a crowd of Freedom defenders in the penalty area to head in
a free kick from Japanese national team star Aya Miyama. Camille Abily
added another in the final minutes to complete a 2-0 victory. |
| Softball:
Jay Miller takes over as head coach |
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With the recent decision by the
International Olympic Committee to drop softball from the roster of
sports for the 2012 Summer Games, goal-setting now takes on a slightly
different meaning for players who now find themselves at the entry
level of the sport. |
| Gymnastics:
Cancer-awareness special to feature Shawn Johnson, Nastia Liukin,
Shannon Miller |
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Co-hosted this year by Olympic gymnastics
champion Mary Lou Retton and cancer survivor and Olympic figure skating
champion Scott Hamilton, the show will highlight current Olympic
champions Shawn Johnson, Nastia Liukin, Paul Hamm, Shannon Miller, and
other stars of the men's and women's US Olympic Gymnastics teams. |
| Tennis:
Henin, Glatch, Pivovarova get wildcards |
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2010 Australian Open finalist and seven-time
Grand Slam champion Justine Henin headlines the wildcard recipients for
Indian Wells, running March 8-21 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
Henin, who won Indian Wells in 2004, recently returned to the Sony
Ericsson WTA Tour after retiring from the sport in May of 2008. The
former World No. 1 will be making her first trip to Indian Wells since
2006. |
| Soccer:
WPS replaces WUSA, seven teams announced |
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The new women’s professional soccer league
now has a name: Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS). With the unveiling
of the league logo and launch of its website, WPS made its official
debut at the NSCAA annual convention. Three W-League teams will have
shared ownership with pro teams in the lew league, launching Spring
2009. |
| Tennis:
Hantuchova, Davenport to try for third title |
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Pacific Life Open champions Daniela
Hantuchova and Lindsay Davenport will try to become the first
three-time women's champion in Indian Wells history this week. Standing
in their way is current Australian Open (not to mention the 2006
Pacific Life) winner Maria Sharapova. Top-Ten players Ana Ivanovic,
Marion Bartoli and Svetlana Kuznetsova also shoot for their first title. |
| Softball:
USA downs Arizona 16-0 to start Beijing Tour |
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The USA Softball Women’s National team
opened the KFC Bound 4 Beijing tour on Tuesday evening in dominating
fashion with 16-0 victory against the defending National Champion
University of Arizona Wildcats. A crowd of 2,832 fans at Hillenbrand
stadium watched the Red, White and Blue tally 15 hits including four
home runs. |
| Soccer:
USA downs China 1-0 to win Four Nations |
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The U.S. Women's National Team scored a 77th
minute goal off a header from midfielder Shannon Boxx to earn a 1-0
victory over China and win the 2008 Four Nations Tournament. It was the
first tournament title for new U.S. head coach Pia Sundhage. |
| Water
Polo: SDSU wins seventh straight opener |
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The sixth-ranked San Diego State women¹s
water polo team opened the 2008 campaign with an 11-8 triumph over No.
10 Hartwick College on Thursday afternoon at the Aztec Aquaplex. With
the win, SDSU notched its seventh consecutive season-opening victory,
while Hartwick fell to 0-4. |
| Basketball:
Paris Johnson MWC Player of the Week |
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Averaging 20 points in the team’s games with
Quinnipiac and Western Michigan, scoring 15 versus the Bobcats and 25
against the Broncos, San Diego State University freshman Paris Johnson
was named MWC Player of the Week. |
| Tennis:
Sharapova, Hingis headline Pacific Life Open |
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Pacific Life Open champion Maria Sharapova
returns to defend her title in second round action Friday. Seeded
players in her half include Jelena Jancovic and Anna Chakvetadze, as
well as Martina Hingis, who is fresh off her win in Tokyo |
| Softball:
Junior players rethink their futures following Olympic axe |
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With the recent decision by the
International Olympic Committee to drop softball from the roster of
sports for the 2012 Summer Games, goal-setting now takes on a slightly
different meaning for players who now find themselves at the entry
level of the sport. |
| Soccer:
WSII announces new women's pro soccer league to replace WUSA |
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Six investors in MLS markets have committed
to forming a new women's professional soccer league, which will replace
the former Women's United Soccer League.
The
timing is such that the new league will get a boost from the Women's
World Cup in 2007. Los Angeles, Chicago, St. Louis, Dallas, D.C. and
one market to be determined will start play in 2008.
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| Soccer:
NCAA: SDSU Aztecs kick off conference play |
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Head coach Mike Giuliano’s San Diego State
University women’s soccer team kicks off Mountain West Conference play
with a pair of games this weekend at the SDSU Sports Deck. The Aztecs
will entertain Air Force on Friday at 4 p.m., followed by an 11:30 a.m.
match against UNLV on Sunday as the front end of a double-header with
the men’s team. |
| WPFL
Football: Scorps snuff out New Mexico's flame |
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As the Scorpions took the field under new
Head Coach, Ray Peterson Jr., they knew their season was all on the
line. Lose, and they are inched out by New York's Empire State Roar for
the wildcard slot. Win and the are in.
Not
only did they win, they crushed the opposing New Mexico Burn 70-7.
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| Soccer:
USWNT beats Ireland 5-0 - for the fifth time |
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The United States women’s national team
looks in fine shape to advance to its fifth consecutive tournament if
the outcome of its July 23 international friendly against Ireland — a
resounding 5-0 victory — is any indicator. |
| Soccer:
WUSA Flashback - The past meets the present |
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One of the WUSA's founding players, Tiffeny
Milbrett, returned to a familiar stomping ground — USD’s Torero Stadium
— on June 2 when her current team, the high-powered Vancouver
Whitecaps, engaged the San Diego Gauchos women’s team in a key Western
Conference W-League match. |
| Basketball:
Siege, Chill seek supremacy in Pro Cup finals |
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March Madness? It appears to be alive and
well in the National Women’s Basketball League, with this week’s Pro
Cup playoffs offering a hint at a possible upset despite the wide
disparity in the records of the four entrants. |
