Feb 22, 2008 LATE RALLY
Mexico tops USC 3-1 in final minutes
Leticia Villalplano and Iris Mora scored consecutive goals within a three-minute span late in the game to propel the Mexico women’s national soccer team to a 3-1 victory over defending NCAA champion USC in an exhibition match before 3,217 fans in the Coliseum on Friday.
Feb. 21, 2008 MEXICO WITH A TWIST
Women’s National team facing USC Friday
Seeing Mexican teams playing in Southern California is not unusual. Neither is seeing them in the Los Angeles Coliseum. But most often, it’s men’s teams playing major international opponents. Not so on Friday, when the Mexican Women’s National Team will face the USC Women of Troy at 7pm.
Feb. 11, 2008 EXHIBITION SET
Mexico to face USC at Coliseum
The defending NCAA champion USC women will host the Mexican women’s national team in an exhibition game in the LA Coliseum on Friday, Feb. 22, at 7 p.m.
Feb. 9, 2008 TAKING ON MEXICO
Women of Troy to host game at Coliseum
The 2007 NCAA Champion USC Trojans will face the Mexican Women’s Nation Team in an exhibition match at the LA Coliseum on February 22 at 7:30.
Jan. 14, 2008 WOMEN’S NATIONAL PLAYER OF THE YEAR
USC’s Rodriguez wins UMBRO Award
USC’s Amy Rodriguez has been named the UMBRO/Soccer News Net Women’s College Player of the Year.
Jan 7, 2008 UMBRO WOMEN'S PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Rodriguez wins LASoccerNews.com award
USC’s Amy Rodriguez has been named the UMBRO/LASoccerNews.com Women’s College Player of the Year.
No.6---USC Wins NCAA THE YEAR’S TOP STORIES
USC breezes past Florida State for title
LASoccerNews.com is counting down the top 10 stories of the year. Today we look at USC capturing their first ever NCAA Women's Soccer Championship
Dec. 18, 2007 HONDA FINALISTS
USC’s Olsen, UCLA’s Cheney on list of four
USC goalkeeper Kristin Olsen and UCLA forward Lauren Cheney have been named finalists for the 2007-08 Honda Sports Award, the Collegiate Women Sports Awards announced today. One of the highest honors for a female athlete, the Honda Award is presented to the top woman collegiate athlete in each sport every year.
Dec. 15, 2007 GETTING THEIR PROPS
Trojans honored by NSCAA
CARY, NC---USC’s history-making season has yet to come to a close. Coming off the Trojans’ first NCAA Championship and a record-breaking 20-3-2 season, the Women of Troy have landed two players on National Soccer Coaches Association of America All-America teams for the first time in program history.
Dec. 9, 2007 LAST LAUGH
USC's Khosroshahin wins title in first year
COLLEGE STATION, TX---Ali Khosroshahin laughed like he had been at USC for years. But Sunday, he led his team to a national championship in his first season with the Trojans.
Khosroshahin’s honeymoon period with his new team never ended, even when they realized he wasn’t kidding about taking nothing less than a national title. He wouldn’t even let the team celebrate their wins.
Dec. 9, 2007 CHAMPS!
USC breezes past Florida State for title
COLLEGE STATION, TX---It was hot enough to be summer in College Station, even on Dec. 9. But it was the even hotter USC Trojans that melted the Florida State Seminoles 2-0 to win the NCAA Division I championship. It was the first-ever women’s soccer championship for USC.
Dec. 7, 2007 MARCHING ON
Trojans top UCLA 2-1
COLLEGE STATION, TX--Despite taking a beating in the first half, physically and on the scoreboard, USC’s Trojans showed they would not let an early setback keep them from a championship game appointment on December 9. USC rebounded from a first-half 1-0 deficit to throttle the skillful Bruins 2-1 Friday. Amy Rodriguez scored both USC goals.
Dec. 6, 2007 SHUTDOWN STREET
Trojans good at keeping ball out of net
Sophomore goalkeeper Kristin Olsen had a hand in two of USC’s program-record 14 shutouts last season, but as the starting keeper for all of the Trojans’ games this year Olsen has now notched 11 solo shutouts and three shared after Friday’s shutout inWest Virginia — which tied that program record of 14 for the Trojans.
Dec. 6, 2007 TEXAS SHOWDOWN
Trojans, Bruins face off in NCAA semifinal
The USC women have never gone this far in the NCAA soccer tournament, making it to the quarterfinals for the first time. And yet, the opponent will look very familiar on Friday (4:00pm PT), when they face the UCLA Bruins, a team they have already lost to once this season.
