ADDITIONAL NOTES:
- This is the first time since 2007 that U.S. Soccer has sent a women’s team to the Pan American Games, a continental multi-sport event in the Americas featuring Olympic summer sports.
- While the USA is facing teams consisting mostly of senior National Team players, the USA has brought a U-19 team featuring the younger part of the USA’s Under-20 Women’s National Team player pool. The entire roster has yet to enter college as the collegiate players in the U-20 pool are all currently embroiled in their college campaigns.
- Seven players on the roster played for the USA at the 2022 FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup, in which the USA dominated Nigeria before falling in penalty kicks in the quarterfinal, so they have some experience at a major world event.
- The U.S. players who played in the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup are defenders Nicki Fraser and Jordyn Bugg, midfielders Charlotte Kohler and Lauren Martinho, forwards Samantha Smith (who is a defender on this roster), Emeri Adames and Amalia Villarreal.
- All the players on the U.S. roster are age-eligible for the team that will compete in the 2024 FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup about a year from now in Colombia. U.S. Under-19 WYNT head coach Carrie Kveton named a Pan Am roster with 15 players born in 2006 and five born in 2005. The age cut-off to play in the U-20 World Cup next year is players born on or after Jan. 1, 2004.
- U.S. Soccer has competed in two Pan American Games for women’s soccer, the first in 1999 in Canada when U.S. Under-18 Women’s National Team, coached by Jay Hoffman, won the gold medal with a 1-0 victory over an older Mexico squad.
- U.S. Soccer sent an Under-20 women’s team to the 2007 Pan American Games in Brazil and advanced to the gold medal game by beating the senior Canada Women’s National Team, 2-1, in the semifinal, but then ran into a buzzsaw host side at the famed Maracanã Stadium and lost 5-0 to earn a silver medal. That U.S. team, coached by future two-time Women’s World Cup champion Jill Ellis, featured several future USWNT stars, including Alyssa Naeher, Lauren Cheney, Kelley O’Hara and Tobin Heath.
-U.S. UNDER-19 WOMEN’S YOUTH NATIONAL TEAM MATCH REPORT-
Match: United States U-19 Women's National Team vs. Costa Rica Women’s National Team
Date: October 25, 2023
Competition: Pan American Games – Group B
Venue: Estadio Elias Figueroa; Valparaíso, Chile
Attendance: 300
Weather: 58 degrees, sunny
Scoring Summary: 1 2 F
USA 1 2 3
CRC 1 0 0
USA – Katie Collins (Eleanor Klinger) 11th minute
CRC – Tanisha Fonseca 35
USA – Claire Hutton (Eleanor Klinger) 73
USA – Emeri Adames (Amalia Villarreal) 77
Lineups:
USA: 1-Sonoma Kasica; 2-Gisele Thompson (13-Sammy Smith, 77), 18-Jordyn Bugg, 5-Nicki Fraser, 3-Aven Alvarez; 17-Eleanor Klinger (6-Grace Restovich, 70), 14-Claire Hutton (Capt.), 10-Lauren Martinho; 7-Ava McDonald (16-Emeri Adames, 46), 9-Amalia Villarreal, 11-Katie Collins (15-Kendall Bodak, 64)
Subs not used: 2-Kealey Titmuss, 4-Lizzie Boamah, 8-Charlotte Kohler
Head Coach: Carrie Kveton
CRC: 1-Genesis Perez; 2-Gabriela Guillen, 4-Mariana Benavides (Capt.), 7-Alexa Herrera (15-Mariela Campos, 75), 8-Mariela Campos, 9-Tanisha Fonseca (16-Dayona Villanueva, 59), 11-Alexandra Pinell (3-Maria Porras, 83), 12-Maria Elizondo, 13-Emilie Valenciano, 14-Fabiola Villalobos, 17-Sheika Scott (10-Carolina Venegas, 75)
Subs not used: 18-Priscilla Tapia, 5-Stephannie Blanco, 6-Emily Flores, 18-Priscilla Tapia
Head Coach: Jose Rubido
Stats Summary: USA / CRC
Shots: 20 / 2
Shots on Goal: 8 / 2
Saves: 1 / 5
Corner Kicks: 3 / 1
Fouls: 6 / 8
Offside: 0 / 0
Misconduct Summary:
USA – Ava McDonald (Caution) 30th minute
CRC – Sheika Scott (Caution) 37
Officials:
Referee: M. Belen Lupera (ECU)
Assistant Referee 1: Stefania Paguay (ECU)
Assistant Referee 2: Joselyn Romero (ECU)
Fourth Official: Joselyn Romero (VEN)
