U.S. Women’s CP National Team Opens 2025 Intercontinental Cup with 12-1 Win against Nepal
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LOUGHBOROUGH, England (Aug. 19, 2025) – The U.S. Women’s Cerebral Palsy (CP) National Team utilized goals from seven different players, including a second-half hat trick from Joey Martin and braces from Kaia Spencer, Jesslyn Kuhnel and Echo Yale, to earn a 12-1 win against Nepal in the team’s opening match of the 2025 IFCPF Intercontinental Cup at Loughborough University.
Idle on the first day of the five-team competition on Monday, the USA wasted little time on Matchday Two, bagging three goals in the first four minutes. Spencer tallied a first-half brace just four minutes in, sandwiched around captain Cassidy Leake’s second minute goal. Kuhnel found the back of the net in the fifth and ninth minutes, before Michelle Cross got on the score sheet in the 18th to make it 6-0 heading into halftime.
Echo Yale earned their debut by starting the match between the sticks, while Janie Richardson collected her first cap when she replaced Kuhnel just before halftime. At the start of the second half, Gabby Scotto replaced Yale in goal to become the third debutant on the day, with Yale re-entering the match as a field player later in the second frame.
It took the USA a little time to get going in the second half, and Nepal actually tallied their first goal of the tournament as Matilda Stacey pulled one back to make 6-1 in the 34th minute.
That lone strike was the interval between another onslaught of U.S. goals, as Richardson tallied on her U.S. debut to make it 7-1 in the 38th minute. Yale followed suit with her first goal in a U.S. shirt three minutes later. Second half substitute Martin scored her first off a feed from Richardson in the 44th, before setting up Yale for their second in the 47th minute.
Yale then returned the favor twice more to Martin, feeding her second goal in the 48th, before helping her complete her hat trick with the last kick of the game in the 50th minute.
-U.S. WOMEN’S CP NATIONAL TEAM MATCH REPORT-
Match: United States Women’s CP National Team vs. Nepal
Date: Aug. 19, 2025
Substitutes not used: 9-Leah Glaser
Head coach: Tricia Taliaferro
Head coach: Sadiksha Malia
Stats Summary: USA / NEP
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