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WAGS Tournament: From New England to Northern Virginia, AIC’s Isa aims to persuade recruits

WAGS Tournament: JMU’s Lombardo eyes top talent

Soccer Wire caught up with JMU women's soccer coach David Lombardo, one of many college coaches scouting at the WAGS Rael Vodicka Memorial Tournament in Fairfax, Va. over the weekend

WAGS Rael Vodica Memorial Tournament – Coverage Central

ECNL National Event: Phoenix offers first taste of season’s challenges, lessons

They came, they saw, and merely by outlasting the hot weather and relentlessly demanding competition, they conquered. Around 2,000 of the nation’s top girls soccer players ranging from the Under-14 to U-18 age groups gathered in Phoenix over the weekend for the Elite Clubs National League’s first National Event of the 2012-13 season, with more than 150 of the league’s teams playing three games each from Saturday through Monday.

ECNL U-17 Championship: CASL Chelsea Ladies win second consecutive national title

Two of the most heralded players on the field played major roles for their respective teams, but it was Joanna Boyles’ CASL Chelsea Ladies, rather than Summer Green’s Michigan Hawks, who prevailed with a championship in Saturday’s Under-17 ECNL national final at Waukegan SportsPark.

Gutsy comeback powers Slammers FC to ECNL U-16 national championship

Slammers, Mich. Hawks survive dramatic semis to battle for ECNL U-18 national championship

As is so often the case in high-stakes knockout matches at this stage of tournaments, the pressure was enormous and goals were scarce in the ECNL Under-18 Flight A national semifinals on Friday morning. What added a more unusual wrinkle to the proceedings was the sequence of daunting thunderheads that zoomed over the Waukegan SportsPark for several hours at midday.

ECNL 2012 National Finals – Coverage Central

An exciting Elite Clubs National League regular season has come to a close and now teams are converging in the Chicago suburbs for the 2012 ECNL National Championship event, taking place June 24-30 at the Waukegan Sports Park.