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3 unusual facts about United States women's national rugby union team


Kathy Flores

Kathy Flores is a former rugby union player from the United States and was the Head Coach of the U.S. Women's National Team until Jan. 2011 and currently Head Coach of the Brown Women's Rugby Team.

The U.S. Women's National Team made its first official international appearance at the Can-Am Rugby Tournament in 1987.

In 1991 the USA Rugby sanctioned Women's National Team would compile a 7-1 record at the first Women's Rugby World Cup championship with Flores on the pitch as a No. 8.


2004 Women's Baseball World Cup

Competing teams were Australia, Canada, Chinese Taipei (Taiwan), Japan, USA.

2012 CONCACAF Women's Pre-Olympic Tournament qualification

There will be a qualification held to determine the three qualifiers from the Caribbean and two from Central America who will join Canada, Mexico and the United States at the final tournament.

Amy Garnett

On each occasion, England reached the final, only to lose to New Zealand; Garnett was a member of the starting fifteen in each final.

Brett Lawrie

Lawrie became engaged to UCLA and United States women's national under-20 soccer team forward Sydney Leroux, a childhood friend against whom he played in youth baseball leagues in Metro Vancouver, in October 2010.

Carolina–Duke rivalry

UNC was led by future Team USA legends Kristine Lilly and Mia Hamm.

Cheryl Bailey

In 2007 Bailey was appointed as the General Manager of the United States women's national soccer team.

Clare Daniels

Her international debut was on 2 July 2005, when she refereed the Canada Cup match between Canada and Scotland.

Claudio Reyna

Reyna married Danielle Egan, then a member of the United States women's national soccer team, in July 1997, one week after attending the FIFA All-Star Game in Hong Kong and two weeks after the U.S. team's World Cup qualifier at El Salvador.

Congressional Country Club

The course has hosted two USGA amateur golf tournaments: the U.S. Junior Amateur of 1949, won by Gay Brewer, and the U.S. Women's Amateur of 1959, won by Barbara McIntire.

Corner kick

Megan Rapinoe of the United States Women's National Soccer Team scored an Olympic goal direct from a corner kick in the semifinal match between the United States and Canada in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Elisabetta Vignotto

Vignotto held the goal scoring record for women's international matches until May 1999, when she was surpassed by Mia Hamm, who scored her 108th goal for the United States.

Geri Donnelly

She scored both goals in a 2–1 win over the United States on 9 July 1986 at the National Sports Center, Blaine, Minnesota.

Heather Aldama

Heather Marie Aldama (born 1 December 1978, in Redlands, California) is a retired American soccer midfielder who was a member of the United States women's national soccer team.

Hungary women's national rugby union team

On 5 April 2010 they won the ENTC (Emerging Nations Training Camp) Test European Championship 7's which was held in the village of Zánka, Hungary.

Jayne McHugh

She played for the United States national team at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Jillian Ellis

Ellis was hired by United States Soccer Federation as the interim coach of United States women's national soccer team, following an early departure of Pia Sundhage, in October 2012, for the head coach position of Sweden women's national football team.

Josephine Pucci

Josephine Pucci (born December 27, 1990) is a women's ice hockey player for the Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey program who made her debut for the United States women's national ice hockey team at the 2011 IIHF Women's World Championship.

JP Dellacamera

His most famous assignments include the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final and 1999 Women's World Cup final between the United States, and China.

Katherine Washington

Katherine Washington is a former American women's basketball player, who played on the first two U.S. women's national teams, earning world championships in 1953 and 1957.

Kelly Schmedes

Kelly Schmedes (born Kelly Wilson on 11 February 1983, in Odessa, Texas) is an American soccer forward who last played for Boston Breakers of Women's Professional Soccer, and was a member of the United States women's national soccer team.

KIF Örebro DFF

Among the club's stars in 2004 were USA internationals Kristine Lilly, Christie Welsh, and Kate Markgraf; they were coached by Pia Sundhage.

Laurel Kessel

She played for San Diego's Crawford High School, San Diego State, and the United States national team.

Lesle Gallimore

In May 2012, Gallimore traveled to Morocco with former United States women's national soccer team members Angela Hucles and Marian Dalmy on behalf of the United States State Department working for the sports envoy program, Empowering Women and Girls through Sports Initiative programs.

Melodie Robinson

Melodie Robinson (born 25 May 1973 in New Plymouth) is a New Zealand sports journalist and presenter, and former international rugby union player for the New Zealand women's national rugby union team.

Monica Walker

In adult competitions, she placed 4th at the U.S. National Championships in 2012 and again in 2013.

Monique Lamoureux-Kolls

She was named to the United States women's national ice hockey team for the 2010 Winter Olympics as was her twin sister Jocelyne, where they captured a silver medal with Team USA.

Nancy Tasman Brower

After playing on the U.S. women's national lacrosse team, Karin Brower Corbett coached at Rutgers University, Villanova University, William & Mary College, and Drew University.

NCR Country Club

It also hosted the 2005 United States Senior Open won by Allen Doyle and the 1986 United States Women's Open Championship, which was won by Jane Geddes

Nicolò Melli

Melli is the son of the former professional volleyball player Julie Vollertsen, who won the silver medal with the Team USA women's national volleyball team at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games.

Patty Cardenas

She played for Bell Gardens High School, Golden West College, University of Southern California, and the United States national water polo team.

Ryan Phelan

Alongside Sports Tonight, Phelan reported for Network Ten on various other sports events including Clipsal 500, the 2003 US Women's Open, the final Melbourne Cup covered by Ten in 2001 and the 2005 City to Surf.

Saudia Roundtree

She competed with USA Basketball as a member of the 1995 Jones Cup Team that won the Bronze in Taipei.

Shannon Szabados

She was a member of the 2009–10 Hockey Canada national women's team which won the gold medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics and earned two shutouts, including the final game against the United States women's national ice hockey team.

Sharon Ellen Burtman

Her titles include National Master (1994); Woman International Master (1989); New England Women's Champion (1988); and United States Women's Champion (1995, shared with Anjelina Belakovskaia).

Softball at the 2011 Pan American Games

On October 23, the United States defeated Canada to win its seventh straight gold medal.

The United States are the defending champions from the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro.

The Merit Club

The Merit Club hosted the United States Women's Open in 2000, won by Karrie Webb.

Tracey DeKeyser

During the 2009-2010 season she was temporarily given the head coaching position while Mark Johnson took a leave of absence in order to coach the United States women's national ice hockey team in the 2010 Winter Olympics.

United States women's national under-17 soccer team

The current head coach B.J. Snow was hired in January 2013; the first time a full-time coach is in charge of this team.

University Hall Turf Field

The Turf Field features a blue surface similar to the one used at the Riverbank Arena in London and was used by the United States women's national field hockey team prior to the 2012 Olympics for this reason.

Vicki Goetze

In 1989 she was still only 16 years old when she defeated Brandie Burton to become the third youngest winner in the history of the U.S. Women's Amateur at the Pinehurst Country Club, in Pinehurst, North Carolina.

Water polo at the 2011 Pan American Games – Women's tournament

The defending champions are the United States.

The women's tournament of water polo at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico will take place from October 23 to October 28, when the United States defeated Canada 27–26 in a penalty shootout for the gold medal.

Women's Baseball World Cup

In the five times it has been held, the tournament has been won twice by United States and most recently three times by Japan in 2008, 2010 and 2012.


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