U-15 USGNT – Women's Soccer Express

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.

Washington Spirit owner Michele Kang pledges to give $30 million over five years to U.S. Soccer in support of women’s soccer development

On November 19th, in a joint press conference with U.S. Soccer, Michele Kang, majority owner of the NWSL’s Washington Spirit, announced that she has pledged to give a total of $30 million over the next five years to U.S. Soccer. Kang’s pledged gift has three stated purposes:

First, to double the number of youth women’s national team camps.
Second, to ramp up women’s youth talent identification by expanding U.S. Soccer’s digital talent identification platform.
Third, to double the number of licensed female coaches and female referees.

Beyond the stated purposes of the pledged gift, there were not much details about how the $30 million will be spent.

The first stated purpose of “doubl[ing] the number of” women’s youth “national team camps” from their current level is noteworthy because the number of WYNT camps held in 2024 is about half the number of camps compared to several years ago.

U-15 USWYNT: Roster for second camp of cycle released, 14 players return, 3 apparent first-timers

On Thursday, November 14th, the second camp of the 2024-25 cycle for the Under-15 United States Women’s Youth National Team got underway in Chula Vista, California. The camp, which is being held concurrently with a U-16 USWYNT camp, runs from the 14th to Wednesday, November 20th.

Head coach Ciara Crinion has called in 24 players, including 14 players from the previous camp as well as three players who are apparently attending their first U.S. youth WNT camp. One of the players from the September U-15 camp, midfielder Loradana Paletta, who was named to the roster for the concurrent U-16 USWYNT camp.

For this cycle, the primary birth year for the U-15 USWYNT is 2010. One notable player with a 2010 birth date not at this camp is NJ/NY Gotham FC forward Mak Whitham, who was also called up to the concurrent U-16 USWYNT camp.

One of the players attending this camp, forward Stella Spitzer, currently plays for the Carolina Ascent of the new USL Super League on an academy contract.

U-15 WYNT: 24 Players Called In for First Camp of New Cycle

On Friday, U.S. Soccer announced that the next cycle of the United States Under-15 Women’s Youth National Team will get underway with a domestic camp that starts on Sunday, September 8th, and runs through Friday, September 13th. The camp will be held in Fayetteville, Georgia.

Of the 24 players named by head coach Ciara Crinion, all but one have 2010 birth years. The lone exception is midfielder Loradana Paletta, who was born in 2011 and was a member of the USA’s squad that won last month’s Concacaf Girls’ Under-15 Championship.

One of the players, forward Stella Spitzer, is currently with a USL Super League team, Carolina Ascent FC. All of the remaining players are on youth club teams, with most (19, according to U.S. Soccer) associated with the ECNL.

U-15 WYNT: A Statistical Look at the USA’s Performance at the 2024 Concacaf Girls’ Under-15 Championship

The following is a brief look at individual and team statistics for the USA at the 2024 Concacaf Girls’ Under-15 Championship.

Tables showing each player’s offensive performance, minutes played, and starter/substitute status for each match are included and discussed.

Also included are tables comparing the USA’s overall offensive and defensive performances per match.

For summaries of the USA’s matches during the tournament, see these two earlier articles:

U-15 WYNT: The USA Defeats Jamaica 11-nil and Costa Rica 3-nil at the 2024 Concacaf Girls’ Under-15 Championship, which covers the USA’s first two group stages matches of the tournament, and
U-15 WYNT: The USA Wins the 2024 Concacaf Girls’ Under-15 Championship, which covers the final group stage match against Haiti as well as the semifinal against Canada and the final against Mexico.

U-15 WYNT: The USA Wins the 2024 Concacaf Girls’ Under-15 Championship

For the fourth time out of four tries, the USA are champions of the Concacaf Girls’ Under-15 Championship. In this year’s edition of the tournament, the U.S. Under-15 Women’s Youth National Team defeated Mexico 3-nil in the championship match after advancing from the semifinals by besting Canada 4:2 in a penalty shootout following a 1:1 draw in regulation.

USA midfielder Caroline Swann was named the Best Player of the tournament, while forward Carolina Reyna was the high scorer, with 6 goals.

Read on for recaps of the championship match, the USA’s semifinal against Canada, and the USA’s final group match, a 13-nil victory over Haiti. (The USA’s first two group stage matches, a 11-nill win over Jamaica and a 3-nil victory over the host Costa Rica, were recapped in an early post.)

U-15 WYNT: The USA Defeats Jamaica 11-nil and Costa Rica 3-nil at the 2024 Concacaf Girls’ Under-15 Championship

In its first group stage match at the 2024 Concacaf Girls’ Under-15 Championship, the United States Under-15 Women’s Youth National Team had a spectacular opening half, scoring 9 of their 11 goals against Jamaica, including a 4-goal hat-trick by forward Carolina Reyna.

The U-15 WYNT followed up that win by soundly defeating host Costa Rica 3-nil in both teams’ second group stage match. Carolina Reyna once again had the game-winning goal.

Thus, after two matches, the U-15 WYNT sit on 6 points and are guaranteed to advance to the semifinals of the tournament, as no more than one other team in Group A, either Costa Rica or Jamaica, can also reach 6 points since both play each other on the final match day of group play.

In the semifinals, the USA will face one of the top two teams in Group B: Canada or Mexico.

U-15 WYNT: Roster Announced for 2024 Concacaf Girls’ Under-15 Championship

On Friday, U.S. Soccer released their 18-player roster for the upcoming Concacaf Girls’ Under-15 Championship, which runs from August 5th to the 11th. Among the players named to the roster are Mak Whitham, who recently became the youngest player ever signed by an NWSL club, and Carolina Reyna, who is the daughter of two former U.S. internationals, Claudio Reyna and Danielle (Egan) Reyna, as well as the younger sister of current USMNT player Gio Reyna.

The United States will be in the top ‘league’ of the three-tiered competition and will face host Costa Rica, plus Haiti and Jamaica.

U-15 USGNT: 34 Players Called In For First Camp of 2020; Six ‘New’ Names

The Under-15 United States Girls’ National Team is currently holding its first camp of 2020. For the camp, which runs from Monday, March 2nd, to Sunday, March 8th, 34 players, all born in 2005, have been called up. All but six of those players previously attended last October’s talent identification camp.

Continue reading “U-15 USGNT: 34 Players Called In For First Camp of 2020; Six ‘New’ Names”