While this looks like a good addition for the team, I bet the announcers around the BIG are cringing. . . .
PSU Women's Soccer 2019 thread
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Legendary program, great coaches turning out World Cup team quality players, beautiful campus, great facilities, rabid fans, plus a world class education. I just felt comfortable there the first time I saw the campus.
I don't speak Icelandic, but I do speak pictures pretty well.
I am sure that Soccer and Education, the broker that Fjolnisdottir‘s family paid, knows the NCAA eligibility rules or else they would be out of business. Judging by names, it appears the S&E has placed a lot of players from Iceland and/or other Nordic countries with NCAA programs. Florida State had two Icelanders on their 2014 NCAA championship team, including Dagný Brynjarsdóttir, who was a Hermann trophy finalist and player in the NWSL for a few years.
Penn State has minimum English language proficiency standards for all international students whose native language is not English.
Why? Because she announced her commitment to her fellow Icelanders in her native tongue?
Well, guess we can scratch "Ava Gonzalez" and say hello to Eva Alonso! Her full name is Eva Alonso-Gonzalez. But she uses just Eva Alonso for media purposes.
https://gopsusports.com/sports/womens-soccer/roster/2020
Looks like Alonso plays for Spains U-17 national team. Is only 17 y.o. Has earned 14 caps with the U-17 team. Her club team is Rayo Vallecano of Madrid.
The 2020 class is close to being as talented as the 2019 #1 class. Especially when you factor in that Leah Scapelli a former 4 star recruit with the 2019 recruiting class has transferred out. Class has three 4 star recruits, four 3 star recruits and now the addition of both Eva Alonso and Maria Bjorg Fjolnisdottir; both of whom are at least 4 star talents and its looking like Alonso could actually be a 5 star talent...the more I find out about her soccer exploits.
The 2019 PSU WSOC recruiting class of 8 players, averages out to a 3.875 star rating. The 2020 recruiting class of 9 players, averages out to a 3.555 star rating. So very close. I based that on Alonso being a 4 star, but she could receive a 5 star rating. Eva was named Captain of the U-17 Spanish national team in May of 2019.
Why did that one girl mentioned transfer out?
that would be a nice pick-up. I saw the U-17 match between the USA and Spain, and Queiroz Costa was quite a player.
Lol ! I remember!!That reminds me of the character on Green Acres Hank Kimball (played by Alvy Moore)...he would start off saying something like: "My thoughts exactly! Well, it's not exactly my thoughts, it's mostly my thoughts. Maybe not mostly my thoughts. It's some of my thoughts. Come to think of it...it's not my thoughts at all!"
I'm pretty close to starting a 2020 thread. I've been holding off because 1) there haven't really been many (or any) articles about the team, and 2) to some extent it remains to be seen if they will have a season.
It's only July. The aforementioned issues will hopefully resolve themselves, and when they do I'll start a 2020 thread.
Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya! {On your way out}
Bye!!
The team has a great collection of forwards and middies, as well as a strong group of GKs. My biggest concern with with the team is with the D.
Wiesner started at the beginning of last season as a true freshman, and has extensive USWNT experience at the U-15, U-17, and U-19 level. Alas, her freshman season ended after 8 matches, as she suffered an injury that kept her out the rest of the season. As long as she's fully rehabbed, she should be a strength on the back line.
Fjolnisdottir has a lot of experience from playing in Iceland. I hope she's up for the challenge, but I always worry about true freshman on the back line.
Haislip took a step forward last year as a true soph, when she started the last 15 games of the season.
Craft was a true freshman last year, when she appeared in 9 games. She did seem to get better as the season progressed, and I think she made the B1G Tournament team.
Besides the relative youth of the aforementioned defenders, there isn't a lot behind them. Olive is a true soph, and did play most of the NCAA match against Arizona, but I don't recall a lot more about her freshman season. Carson is a true freshman, and I've already indicated my concerns with true fresh on the back line. Besides them, the only ones that seem to have any D experience are true fresh Eva Alonso (who has played middle and D during her career in Spain) and Kerry Abello, who has experience played F, M, and D, though you have Abello starting on attack, and Alonso as a back-up middle.
Assuming (yeah I know what they say) there even IS a 2020 NCAA college soccer season AND assuming there is an NCAA Tournament; I am going to make a bold prediction: The NCAA champion will finish with a perfect record. No losses and no ties.
Now that we know that much
One of the above teams will win it all in 2020. Write it down. Putting my thinking cap on, and calculating all the possible outcomes for all the teams games, factoring in bad officiating, bad bounces, lousy weather, tsunamis, earthquakes, injured players and so on, I have decided that I have no idea who will win the 2020 NCAA Women's College Cup!
OK, I will give my odds on the above teams winning the title:
1) Stanford - 2 to 1
2) North Carolina - 5 to 2
3) Florida State - 3 to 1
4) UCLA - 4 to 1
5) Penn State - 5 to 1
6) USC - 6 to 1
7) Virginia - 8 to 1
8) South Carolina 10-1
Something like that.
Where's WVU??
Always tough on our girls!!
College sports just need to be delayed until 2021 to get past the election in November. I hope the SEC and ACC play this fall!
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