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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-20 WYNT: Midfielder Sam Courtwright Is Out Due to Knee Injury, Will Be Replaced By Addison Halpern

On Thursday, August 15th, U.S. Soccer announced, through their @USYNT x.com account that midfielder Sam Courtwright, who had 8 youth international caps with the United States Under-20 Women’s Youth National Team will not be representing the USA at the upcoming FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup in Colombia due to an ACL injury.

Halpern’s replacement will be midfielder Addison Halpern from New Jersey. Halpern, who plays for PDA, was one of the alternates named in last week’s roster announcement.

That announcement came a couple hours after Courtwright’s collegiate team, Texas Tech, posted on social media that Courtwright had suffered a season-ending knee injury (post on team’s X.com account). Courtwright’s injury came during a Texas Tech training session.

2024 Concacaf W Champions Cup: Group Stage Schedule for NWSL Teams with TV and Streaming Details

The inaugural edition of the Concacaf W Champions Cup, the confederation’s first international tournament for professional women’s soccer teams (mostly), gets underway tonight with a play-in match between the Vancouver Whitecaps FC Elite of Canada and Alianza of El Salvador.

With less than four hours to go before the kick-off of the play-in match, CBS Sports released its television and streaming schedule for the group phase on the website formerly known as Twitter.

Three NWSL teams are in the competition: The 2023 champions, Gotham FC; 2023 Shield winners, San Diego Wave; and the Shield runners-up, Portland Thorns. Gotham is in Group A, while the Wave and the Thorns are in Group B.

NCAA: Former USWNT Head Coach Anson Dorrance Announces Retirement from UNC Women’s Soccer

On Sunday, August 11th, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s athletics department announced that Anson Dorrance, long-time head coach of the women’s soccer program at UNC and a former head coach of the United States Women’s National Team, has retired, effective immediately.

Dorrance, as most fans of women’s soccer should be well aware, is the most successful coach in NCAA Division I women’s soccer, winning 21 national titles.

While not the first head coach of the USWNT, in many ways, Dorrance was the team’s founding father. He helped to establish the team’s identity and brought in young players such as Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy, and Kristine Lilly. As head coach, Dorrance lead the USWNT to its first FIFA Women’s World Cup title, though at the time, the tournament did not use the “World Cup” moniker.

The press release (goheels.com) stated that Dorrance informed UNC’s Director of Athletics on Friday (August 9th) and notified the women’s soccer team on Sunday.

Assistant head coach Damon Nahas, who is the brother of North Carolina Courage head coach, Sean Nahas, will be the interim head coach.

Olympics 2024: The USWNT’s Gold Medal Ceremony

The USWNT receives their gold medals (Telemundo Deportes)

The playing of the national anthem (Telemundo Deportes)

Olympics 2024: The USWNT Wins 5th Gold, Defeating Brazil 1-Nil

“Three times is a pattern”, as the (not entirely on point) saying goes. For the third time, the United States Women’s National Team faced Brazil in the gold medal match at the Summer Olympics (2004, 2008, and 2024). And, for the third time, the USA claimed gold, while Brazil and Marta had to settle for silver, with Germany securing a bronze medal as consolation. Also, for the third time in as many matches, The USWNT won by the slimmest of margins, 1-nil, on a goal scored by one of the starting front three. Additionally, this is the third time since the introduction of the women’s soccer tournament (1996) that the Summer Olympics was hosted by a European country, and once again, the USA won gold on European soil (2004 in Greece, 2012 in the United Kingdom, and 2024 in France).

2024 Olympics: Germany Claims Bronze, Defeating Spain 1-0

In the third-place match of the women’s soccer tournament at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Spain, after its disastrous semifinals performance against Brazil, had a second chance to secure its first Olympic medal. However, for the third time in a row, Spain had a poor offensive showing. And, for the second time in a row, Cata Coll committed a costly goalkeeping error. And, thus, for the first time since 2008, Germany had an Olympic bronze medal, their fourth.

The two defining moments of the match both revolved around penalty kicks: In the 65th minute, Giulia Gwinn converted from the spot for Germany after Spain’s goalkeeper, Cata Coll, crashed into Gwinn at the top of the penalty area as both were going for a lofted long pass. And, in the final moments of the match, Gotham FC’s Ann-Katrin Berger, who save two kicks in Germany’s quarterfinal penalty shootout against Canada, was once again the heroine for Germany, as she saved Alexia Putellas’s penalty kick in the 9th minute of second-half stoppage time.

2024 Olympics: The USWNT’s Gold Medal Match Against Brazil Will Air Live on NBC

The United States Women’s National Team should have their biggest television audience of 2024 on Saturday, August 10th, when they play Brazil for the third time in an Olympic gold medal match.

The match, which was originally scheduled for the USA network, has been moved to NBC. The kick-off is scheduled for 11:00 a.m. EDT (8:00 a.m. PDT).

For those who prefer Spanish-language coverage, the gold medal match will air live on Telemundo.

The match can also be streamed via Peacock (subscription required) as well as the NBC Sports app and NBCOlympics.com (both require logging in using a multichannel service provider).

The schedule change was also confirmed in an NBC Sports press release.

2024 Olympics: Updated TV and Streaming Details for the Bronze Medal Match between Germany and Spain

In the United States, the only way to watch Friday’s bronze medal match between Germany and Spain with English-language commentary will be through streaming.

For those without Peacock subscriptions, if you have a multichannel service provider (e.g. for cable, satellite, etc.), in most cases, you should be able to watch the match live using the NBC Sports app or NBCOlympics.com after linking your multichannel service account.

The match, which was originally planned to air on the USA network, is still scheduled to air live on Telemundo, with Spanish-language commentary.