Boston Breakers, Featured, United States, WPS
12 March 2010 | 1 Comment
The Boston Breakers have made their first round of roster cuts of the 2010 preseason. Wednesday, the team released defender Casey Brown, its seventh-round draft pick (61st) overall of the 2010 WPS Draft. Brown played her college soccer at Boston University and came on as a sub in Boston’s scrimmage Wednesday against Boston College. Releasing [...]
Boston Breakers, Featured, WPS
11 March 2010 | 1 Comment
To say that the end of the 2009 Womens Professional Soccer season was a disappointment for the Boston Breakers would be a huge understatement. A couple of unfortunate breaks and bad bounces held the team just one point away from securing the fourth and final playoff spot.
The missing element last year [...]
Tagged in Alex Scott, Amy LePeilbet, Boston Breakers, Kelly Smith, Kristine Lilly, Lauren Cheney, Leslie Osborne, Taryn Hemmings, Tiffany Weimer, Tony DiCicco, WPS
Boston Breakers, Featured, USMNT, WPS
8 February 2010 | 1 Comment
When Women’s Professional Soccer officially announced that the Los Angeles Sol would discontinue operations, it left the league, players, and coaches in shock. It also left several Sol players with no place to play and forced WPS to hold a Dispersal Draft for the rest of the teams in the league to pick players from [...]
Tagged in Boston Breakers, LA Sol, Stephanie Cox, USWNT, WPS
Boston Breakers, Featured, United States, WPS
29 January 2010 | 2 Comments
Hours before the Los Angeles Sol made the official announcement, news of the team’s disbandment spread like wildfire. It also drew speculation that Womens Professional Soccer was in dire straits. How could one of the most recognized teams in the league that had the best player in the world in Brazilian international Marta all the [...]
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United States
19 January 2010 | 0 Comments
When Kristen and Samantha Mewis played last year in the U-17 World Cup, they became the first sibling duo to play for a U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team. The sisters enjoyed tremendous success with the U-17 squad, which finished second at the 2008 World Cup in New Zealand.
One year later, the dynamic duo returns, hoping [...]
Tagged in Christine Nairn, Jillian Ellis, Kristie Mewis, Samantha Mewis, Sydney Leroux, Tony DiCicco, WPS
Boston Breakers, Featured, WPS
15 January 2010 | 0 Comments
Just minutes after the Boston Breakers selected Lauren Cheney Friday morning with the No. 2 overall pick in the WPS Draft, the former UCLA forward said she doesn’t feel any pressure at all to perform at next level.
“I’m really excited. It’s definitely a little overwhelming right now, but I’m so excited,” Cheney said via cell [...]
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Boston Breakers, WPS
8 January 2010 | 3 Comments
To say that Jennifer Nobis is excited about the upcoming Womens Professional Soccer season is a huge understatement.
The Boston Breakers forward was the first member of the team to arrive in Boston to prepare for the upcoming campaign. And it actually seems as if Nobis’ 2009 season never ended. Not long after Boston’s WPS season [...]
Tagged in Amy Rodriguez, Angela Hucles, Atlanta Beat, Boston Breakers, Casey Noguiera, Christine Latham, Fabiana, Heather Mitts, Jennifer Nobis, Kelley O'Hara, Kelly Smith, Kristine Lilly, Lauren Cheney, Leslie Osborne, Philadelphia Independence, Tiffany Weimer, Tony DiCicco, USWNT
WPS
23 October 2009 | 0 Comments
Leslie Osborne had just returned to her Germany apartment, fresh off a practice in near freezing temperatures. After a three-hour practice and despite the fact that it was nearing 11 p.m., Osborne was still full of energy, knowing that one day prior she had signed a contract to play for the Boston Breakers in 2010. [...]
Tagged in Boston Breakers, FC Gold Pride, Kelly Smith, Leslie Osborne, Tony DiCicco, USWNT, WPS
WPS
5 October 2009 | 1 Comment
Tony DiCicco hasn’t had too much of a vacation since the end of the 2009 Womens Professional Soccer season. The Boston Breakers head coach went to Finland days after the WPS regular season ended in August for the Women’s Euro 2009, which ran through Sept. 10. Five days later, the WPS held its expansion draft [...]
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WPS
15 September 2009 | 0 Comments
The Boston Breakers lost two players in today’s Women’s Professional Soccer Expansion Draft. The Atlanta Beat chose six players, while the Philadelphia Independence took seven. The Breakers lost forward Kelly Schmedes and defender Sue Weber both to the Philadelphia Independence. The two new teams were allowed to draft players that were left unprotected by all seven teams in [...]
Tagged in Atlanta Beat, Boston Breakers, Philadelphia Independence, WPS Expansion Draft