Christine Nairn conitnues to impress and has been selected to attend camp with the full Women’s National Team.
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· Member of USA’s 2008 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Championship Team Gets First Call-Up to Senior Team
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CHICAGO (Jan. 16, 2009) – Midfielder Christine Nairn has replaced Jill Oakes on the U.S. Women’s National Team roster that will start a 17-day training camp on Jan. 20 at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif.
Oakes, a member of the U.S. team that won the 2002 FIFA U-19 Women’s World Cup, had to withdraw from camp due to a knee injury and has been replaced by a member of the USA’s most recent youth world champions.
Nairn, 18, played in all six matches for the USA at the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Chile, starting in the semifinal and final, while playing a vital role in the midfield during the American’s run through the knockout games. She registered the assist on the USA’s first goal in the 3-0 quarterfinal victory over England, sending a pin-point cross for Keelin Winters to head home for the game’s first goal.
The 5-foot-6 Nairn, who hails from Bowie, Md., was the youngest member of the U-20 Women’s World Cup Team and will be the youngest player in WNT camp. She delayed her enrollment as a freshman at Penn State last fall to focus on preparations for the U-20 Women’s World Cup, but recently started her first semester of college. Nairn, who is age-eligible for the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup, has earned 11 caps so far with the U.S. U-20s and has extensive experience with younger U.S. youth national teams as well.
Following the training camp, U.S. head coach Pia Sundhage will choose an 18-player roster to participate in the annual Algarve Cup in Portugal, this year running from March 4-11.
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Tiffany McCarty after an outstanding Freshman year at Florida State University has been selected to attend the U20 National Team Camp.
YOUTH WOMEN BEGIN 2009 WITH SUPER-CAMPS IN CALIFORNIA AND FLORIDA: Four U.S. Women’s Youth National Teams will kick off 2009 with two 48-player super-camps at the end of January. Coming off an extremely successful 2008 in which the USA won the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Chile and finished second at the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in New Zealand, the youth programs now begin a new cycle as the U.S. Under-20s and Under-18s combine for a training camp in Chula Vista, Calif., from Jan. 25-Feb. 1 while the U.S. Under-17s and Under-15s combine for a camp in Sunrise, Fla., from Jan. 28-Feb. 5. The combination of the four programs into two training camps will give the coaches a chance to evaluate a large number of players in each age group as the teams begin their runs to what will hopefully culminate in the 2010 U-20 Women’s World Cup in Germany and the 2010 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in Trinidad & Tobago. The U-20 tournament will be for players born on or after Jan. 1, 1990, while the 2010 U-17 Women’s World Cup will be restricted to players born on or after Jan. 1, 1993.
U.S. U-20 & U-18 WNT Super-Camp Roster
GOALKEEPERS (7): Bianca Henniger (Los Gatos, Calif.), Alexa Gaul (Naperville, Ill.), Jillian Mastroianni (Durham, Conn.), Emily Oliver (Flossmoor, Ill.), Anna Sieloff (Troy, Mich.), Taylor Vancil (South Elgin, Ill.), Kelsey Wys (Coral Springs, Fla.)
DEFENDERS (12): Tori Allen (Stafford, Va.), Amber Brooks (New Hope, Pa.), Danielle Brunache (Belmont, Calif.), Cloee Colohan (West Point, Utah), Crystal Dunn (Rockville Centre, N.Y.), Alexis Harris (Plano, Texas), Meagan Morris (Montclair, N.J.), Megan Oyster (Naperville, Ill.), Mollie Pathman (Durham, N.C.), Bailey Powell (Fayetteville, Ga.), Rachel Quon (Lake Forest, Ill.), Whitney Sharpe (West Des Moines, Iowa)
MIDFIELDERS (16): Zakiya Bywaters (Las Vegas, Nev.), Chelsea Cline (Fairbault, Minn.), Elizabeth Eddy (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Danielle Hubka (Strongsville, Ohio), Olivia Klei (Pleasanton, Calif.), Mandy Laddish (Lee’s Summit, Mo.), Camille Levin (Newport Coast, Calif.), Kristie Mewis (Hanson, Mass.), Samantha Mewis (Hanson, Mass.), Jazmin Ponce (Lawndale, Calif.), Jenna Richmond (Centerville, Va.), Casey Short (Naperville, Ill.), Claire Stachel (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Wendy Travis (Cary, N.C.), Erika Tymrak (Bradenton, Fla.), Allie Vernon (Homer Glen, Ill.)
FORWARDS (13): Lauren Alwine (Elizabethtown, Pa.), Hayley Brock (Acton, Mass.), Kelly Cobb (Chugiak, Alaska), Tani Costa (Honolulu, Hawaii), Vicki DiMartino (Massapequa, N.Y.), Maya Hayes (West Orange, N.J.), Courtney Jones (Danville, Calif.), Tiffany McCarty (Laurel, Md.), Kealia Ohai (Draper, Utah), Alev Perusse (Eagle River, Alaska), Toni Pressley (Melbourne, Fla.), Chioma Ubogagu (Coppel, Texas), Courtney Verloo (Tualatin, Ore.)
