Known to her University of Portland Pilot team-mates as simply "Sinc", she led her team to their second NCAA Division I Ladies championship in four years. Of course, as most of you must know, she is from Burnaby. That is the bad news because she will now be playing for the Canadian National team, not the US team. It seems like all the best teams in this years playoffs had at least one Canadian National player on the roster.
I have been following the Santa Clara ladies team for years so I am very familiar with the Pilots. These two are by far the two best teams in the West despite UCLA's appearance in the final game today, won by Portland 4-0, with Sinc scoring 2 goals and there-by setting an all-time scoring record for Div I players. In one of the other 4 years my SC girls won the title.
Depending on what you read and whom you choose to believe, she may be the best player in the world, or possibly the best ladies soccer player of all time. And, her future is all ahead of her.
One of the more amazing things about this team's accomplishment is the enrollment at UCLA is 10X that of Portland, and much larger than SC enrollment also.
With her graduation this year maybe my girls will re-emerge as the top team in the West, but one of the Portland goals was scored by a freshman, so you never know.
I never intended to write about this here, but upon logging-on now I saw a thread on curling, so I figured, why not?
I have been following the Santa Clara ladies team for years so I am very familiar with the Pilots. These two are by far the two best teams in the West despite UCLA's appearance in the final game today, won by Portland 4-0, with Sinc scoring 2 goals and there-by setting an all-time scoring record for Div I players. In one of the other 4 years my SC girls won the title.
Depending on what you read and whom you choose to believe, she may be the best player in the world, or possibly the best ladies soccer player of all time. And, her future is all ahead of her.
One of the more amazing things about this team's accomplishment is the enrollment at UCLA is 10X that of Portland, and much larger than SC enrollment also.
With her graduation this year maybe my girls will re-emerge as the top team in the West, but one of the Portland goals was scored by a freshman, so you never know.
I never intended to write about this here, but upon logging-on now I saw a thread on curling, so I figured, why not?
