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U-15 USWYNT: Third camp of 2025 announced, just nine players previously attended a camp this cycle

The third training camp of the 2024-25 cycle for the United States Under-15 Women’s Youth National Team camp will have just five players who attended both of the prior camps this cycle, which were in September 2024 and November 2024. Four additional players were called into the first camp.

Of the remaining fifteen players called in for this current camp, which runs from Tuesday, April 22, to Tuesday, April 29, most previously attended two Under-14 national identification camps in the first half of 2024 (March and June).

Four players are apparently attending their first national U.S. Soccer camp.

Leading this camp is the just-announced new head coach of the U-15 USWYNT, Vanessa Mann, who was briefly an assistant coach with the Utah Royals of the National Women’s Soccer League in 2024. The former coach, Ciara Crinion, is now the full-time head coach of the U-16 USWYNT, and will transition with the current U-16 players to the U-17 USWYNT later this year.

USWYNTs: Vanessa Mann hired as U-15 head coach; U-18, U-20, and U-23 positions expected to be “filled in the coming weeks”

On Monday, U.S. Soccer announced that former Utah Royals assistant coach Vanessa Mann is the new full-time head coach of the Under-15 Women’s Youth National Team.

In the same press release, U.S. Soccer also provided details about other women’s youth national team head coaching positions.

Most notably, the federation will switch to alternating head-coaching cycles for the Under-17 WYNT. After this year’s FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup, Katie Schoepfer, who is the current head coach of the U-17s, will switch to the Under-16 WYNT and stay with that age group (2010 birth year) through the 2027 FIFA U-17 WWC. Meanwhile, Ciara Crinion, who is now the head coach for the U-16s, will move up with the 2009 birth years in the second half of this year to the Under-17 WYNT.

U.S. Soccer also announced that “full-time head coaching positions for the U.S. U-18 WNT, U.S. U-20 WNT and U.S. U-23 WNT [will] likely being filled in the coming weeks”. The other current youth head coach is Carrie Kveton, who is in charge of the Under-19 WYNT. The U-19s are preparing to qualify for the 2026 FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup.

U-14 Talent ID: Third and final regional mini-camp for 2025 to be held over Easter weekend

After conducting regional mini-camps in February and March, U.S. Soccer’s Under-14 Girls’ Talent Identification Program will hold a mini-camp for the Central Region, starting Thursday, April 17, in the Austin, Texas, area.

As with the previous camps, U.S. Soccer Director of Talent ID Nicole Lukic will lead the camp. Her primary assistants for this camp will be Central Talent ID Manager Lindsay Basalyga and South Talent ID Manager Illeana Moschos. Basalyga is a former head coach of the women’s soccer programs at Bowling Green State University and Eastern Kentucky University (LinkedIn profile). Moschos has significant experience as an assistant NCAA coach and competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics as a member of the Greece Women’s National Team (FSU profile).

One of the players called up, midfielder Alaia Harrington, is the daughter of a retired NBA player: Al Harrington (Wikipedia bio), who was drafted out of high school by the Indiana Pacers and played in over a 1,000 games from 1998 to 2014. He was named the national player of the year in his last high school season by both Gatorade and USA Today. (Instagram)

Defender Cambria Williams is the younger sister of Anaiah Williams (x.com), who is with the U.S. U-16 WYNT this week in Spain.

U-16 USWYNT: 24 Players called up for a pair of friendlies against Spain

For its third camp of the current cycle, the Under-16 United States Women’s Youth National Team will play two friendlies in Spain against its Spanish counterpart.

From the last U-16 camp, which was held in late January and early February, 15 players return. Among the returning players is Utah Royals forward KK Ream, who is the only professional named to the roster.

Two players who attended the first camp of the cycle return after not being named to the last camp: Forward Deus Stanislaus and defender Anaiah Williams. In late January, Stanislaus verbally committed to play collegiate soccer for the University of North Carolina (Instagram). A few months earlier, she changed her expected high school graduation year to 2026 (Instagram).

Five of the 24 players are apparently attending their first proper youth national team camp. Among those five is defender Marin Kotschau, whose younger sister, Reagan Kotschau, was called into the recent “overage” U-20 USWYNT camp”. Their father, Ritchie Kotschau (Wikipedia bio), is a retired Major League Soccer player who had one cap for the senior United States Men’s National Team (2024 USMNT Media Guide, page 122).

Carolina Reyna, who is also the daughter of both a former USMNT player, Claudio Reyna, as well as a former United States Women’s National Team player, Danielle Reyna (née Egan), has attended both of the previous camps this cycle. For this camp, Reyna is listed as a midfielder, which is a change from all previous youth national team rosters, where she was solely listed as a forward.

U-17 USWYNT: The USA should be in Pot 1 for the draw of the 2025 FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup

Last weekend, the United States, along with Mexico, Canada, and Costa Rica, all qualified for this year’s FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup. Those four Concacaf teams joined seven other teams that have already qualified, including the host of this year’s FIFA U-17 WWC, Morocco. Thirteen more slots remain to be filled from three confederations: CAF (Africa), CONMEBOL (South America), and UEFA (Europe).

Assuming that FIFA continues to use the same ranking methodology for this year’s tournament as it has for the past few U-17 WWCs, the USA should have either the fourth-highest or third-highest seeding coefficient, which would put the USA in the first pot of the draw that will determine the groups for this year’s FIFA U-17 WWC. Only one of the 26 teams that are still alive in qualifying, Spain, will have a higher seeding coefficient for the draw than the USA.

The primary advantage of being in Pot 1 is that the USA will not face any of the other Pot 1 teams, such as Korea DPR and Spain, until at least the Round of Sixteen, should the USA advance out of its group. However, the USA could still end up with a difficult group due to the nature of the ranking system and the distribution of teams from each confederation.

TV & Streaming: Saturday, April 5, 2025 — USWNT vs. Brazil, U-17 USWYNT vs. El Salvador

U-23 USWYNT: 24 Players called up for the second Under-23 camp of 2025

Update (31-Mar-2025): Outside-back Gisele Thompson has been called up to the full USWNT as a replacement for the withdrawn Tierna Davidson. Portland Thorns midfielder Olivia Moultrie will take Thompson’s spot in the U-23 camp. The rest of this post has not yet been updated.

For its second camp of 2025, the United States Under-23 Women’s Youth National Team will have a significantly different roster compared to the earlier “Futures Camp” that was held in January. From that camp, three players will be with the United States Women’s National Team for this current window: Midfielder Claire Hutton, forward Michelle Cooper, and defender/forward Avery Patterson. Meanwhile, thirteen players will be attending their first U-23 camp of the year, including five players who have apparently received their first proper call-up to a U.S. national team camp.

Three of the 24 players called-up have previous trained with the full USWNT:

Paris Saint-Germain center-back Eva Gaetino, who has one USWNT cap and attended a few camps in 2024,
Angel City outside-back Savy King, who was a training player during the 2025 SheBelieves Cup, and
Angel City outside-back Gisele Thompson, who was capped twice during the 2025 SheBelieves Cup.

U-20 USWYNT: 20 players with 2005 birth years and four born in 2006 called into “Over-Age” Under-20 camp

In the before times, youth national team players who were born a year too late for the next FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup would be included solely in the pool for the Under-23 Women’s (Youth) National Team. However, with U.S. Soccer now using annual school-year cycles for its youth national teams, the potential for an “Over-Age” Under-20 USWYNT team is now possible. That possibility was likely made into reality by Michele Kang’s cash infusion to the women’s and youth’s programs of U.S. Soccer.

So, for the first time since the advent of the FIFA U-20 WWC, there is an Under-20 United States Women’s Youth National Team that is not directly focused on qualifying for or playing in the next FIFA U-20 WWC.

For this camp, which will be lead by San Diego Wave assistant coach Becki Tweed, most of the players selected were born in 2005.

U-19 USWYNT: Three NWSL pros called up for the first domestic camp of 2025

With Concacaf qualifying for the 2026 FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup less than two months away, the Under-19 United States Women’s Youth National Team and its Under-18 counterpart, will hold what will probably be their last camps before head coach Carrie Kveton selects her squad for the 2025 Concacaf Women’s Under-20 Championship.

Unlike the February camp, which only had players who were born in 2006, this camp features three players with 2007 birth years. All three are midfielders who competed in the 2024 FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup squad and are current NWSL professionals: Melanie Barcenas of the San Diego Wave, Kennedy Fuller of Angel City, and Ainsley McCammon of the Seattle Reign.

Two other current NWSL pros who also competed at the 2024 FIFA U-17 WWC, forward Mary Long and outside-back Katie Scott, both of the Kansas City Current, were named to the concurrent U-18 USWYNT camp, along with five other members of the USA’s squad at the 2024 FIFA U-17 WWC.

Curiously absent from both camps is the only other current NWSL pro who was on the USA’s squad at last year’s FIFA U-17 WWC: San Diego Wave center-back Trinity Armstrong.

U-18 USWYNT: Three NWSL pros called up as the U-18s holds first full camp since 2020

For the first time since January 2020, the United States Under-18 Women’s Youth National Team is holding a full camp. Prior to this current camp, U.S. Soccer most recently held two “combined” U-18/U-19 camps in 2023 (January 2023 camp press release, April 2023 camp press release). Those camps only had a total of 34 and 23 players, respectively.

Here, a full complement of 24 players, all born in 2007, have been called up for a U-18 USWYNT camp that will run concurrently with a U-19 USWYNT camp that is also being held at the same facility in Fayetteville, Georgia.

The players in this U-18 camp have an outside shot of making the USA’s roster for the upcoming Concacaf Women’s Under-20 Championship, which kicks off in late May. Meanwhile, the 24 players selected for this week’s concurrent U-19 camp likely have the inside track to the 21 spots for the qualifying roster.

Three players called into this camp are current NWSL professionals: Forward Mary Long of the Kansas City Current, defender Zoe Matthews of the Houston Dash, outside-back Katie Scott of the Kansas City Current. The Washington Spirit’s Chloe Ricketts was originally named to the roster, but was withdrawn on Sunday, March 30, due to an injury (USYNT x.com post).

Just six players are currently on NCAA teams, while the remaining 15 non-professionals are still in high school. One of those players, defender Emma Johnson plays for Lexington SC of the USL Super League via an amateur contract. All 15 non-pros have known NCAA commits.

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