U.S. women’s soccer team to compete in Pan American Games for first time since 2007 with U-19 squad

The U.S. Underneath-19 ladies’s youth nationwide crew will compete on the 2023 Pan American Video games. Head coach Carrie Kveton has named an 18-player roster that may journey to the competitors for the primary time since 2007. The Pan American Video games is a multi-sport occasion that includes Olympic summer season sports activities. The match is mostly held within the Americas and the 2023 competitors is scheduled to start on Oct. 20 in Santiago, Chile.

“Now we have a variety of up-and-coming gamers on this roster who’ve some thrilling potential, so this match shall be an incredible expertise for them,” mentioned Kveton. 

“We’re a younger crew, however the gamers have had some expertise taking part in collectively and our teaching workers has labored with a variety of them up to now. It will likely be an enormous problem for our gamers to be immersed within the setting of a giant match the place the stress is on to carry out each sport.  We will be taking part in towards older gamers so we’ll see a better stage of physicality and velocity which shall be a very good take a look at for them to see the place they’re at on this stage of their careers.”

The Pan American Video games launched ladies’s soccer into the occasion in 1999 and has served as a contest for soccer packages within the Concacaf and Conmebol areas. The U.S. beforehand received the Gold medal in 1999 and the Silver medal in 2007. The 2023 Video games will mark the third look by a U.S. ladies’s crew within the competitors after beforehand declining invitations to the match, a situation not unusual for a number of nationwide crew packages. Mexico (7) and Argentina (6) have probably the most appearances within the competitors thus far.

The 2023 soccer competitors will characteristic two teams of 4 groups every with the highest two finishers in every group advancing to the semifinals. Group A options match hosts Chile, Jamaica, Mexico, and Paraguay. Workforce USA is in Group B and can face the senior nationwide groups of Venezuela, Costa Rica, and Argentina. 

U-19 USWYNT ROSTER  (Membership; Hometown)

All of the gamers on the U.S. roster are age-eligible for the crew that may compete within the 2024 FIFA Underneath-20 Ladies’s World Cup subsequent yr in Colombia. There are 15 gamers born in 2006 and 5 born in 2005. The age cut-off to play within the U-20 World Cup subsequent yr is gamers born on or after Jan. 1, 2004.

Check out the roster and alternates:

Goalkeepers (2): Sonoma Kasica (Florida Premier FC; St. Petersburg, Fla.), Kealey Titmuss (Nationals; Grand Blanc, Mich.)

Defenders (6): Aven Alvarez (North Carolina Braveness; New Hill, N.C.), Jordan Bugg (San Diego Surf SC; El Cajon, Calif.), Nicki Fraser (Actual Colorado; Highlands Ranch, Colo.), Reese Klein (Florida United SC; Cooper Metropolis, Fla.), Sam Smith (Boise Timbers Thorns FC; Boise, Idaho), Gisele Thompson (Whole Futbol Academy; Studio Metropolis, Calif.)

Midfielders (6): Kendall Bodak (New England FC; Monson, Mass.), Claire Hutton (World Class FC; Bethlehem, N.Y.), Eleanor Klinger (Internationals SC; Cleveland, Ohio), Charlotte Kohler (MVLA SC; Woodside, Calif.), Lauren Martinho (North Carolina Braveness; Cary, N.C.), Grace Restovich (St. Louis Scott Gallagher; St. Louis, Mo.)

Forwards (4): Emeri Adames (Photo voltaic SC; Crimson Oak, Texas), Katie Shea Collins (Tennessee SC; Gallatin, Tenn.), Ava McDonald (FC Dallas; Allen, Texas), Amalia Villarreal (Michigan Jaguars FC; Lansing, Mich.)

Alternates: M Izzy Engle (Minnesota Thunder; Edina, Minn.), F Miri O’Donnell (FC Bay Space Surf; San Ramon, Calif.), D Carla Small (IMG Academy; Waipahu, Hawaii), F Bella Winn (World Class FC; Ridgewood, N.J.)