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Camping season 15 players from World Cup champs in training camp
Posted: Tuesday March 28, 2000 06:30 PM
CHICAGO (AP) -- Fifteen players who won the Women's World Cup last year were among 30 picked Tuesday for the Olympic training camp by April Heinrichs, the new coach of the U.S. women's soccer team. Twenty-six of the players will join the camp April 3, five days before an exhibition game against Iceland at Charlotte, N.C. The Americans will take a week off after the game, then start training at San Diego on April 17. Heinrichs must cut her roster to 18 for the Sydney Games in September. Four players will miss the Iceland game: Aleisha Cramer, Veronica Zepeda and Sara Randolph, who are all 17, and Michelle Akers, who has a dislocated shoulder and may need surgery. Nandi Pryce, a 17-year-old defender who made her international debut in January, also is on the roster. The five 1999 World Cup players not invited were midfielders Tisha Venturini and Tiffany Roberts, forward Danielle Fotopoulos, and goalies Tracy Ducar and Saskia Webber. The 30 invited to camp are: Goalkeepers: Jen Branam, Siri Mullinix, Briana Scurry, Hope Solo. Defenders: Brandi Chastain, Joy Fawcett, Michelle French, Carla Overbeck, Christie Pearce, Nandi Pryce, Danielle Slaton, Kate Sobrero. Midfielders: Michelle Akers, Aleisha Cramer, Lorrie Fair, Julie Foudy, Jena Kluegel, Christine Lilly, Shannon MacMillan, Sara Randolph, Nikki Serlenga, Aly Wagner, Sara Whalen, Veronica Zepeda. Forwards: Mia Hamm, Tiffeny Milbrett, Cindy Parlow, Alyssa Ramsey, Susan Rush, Christie Welsh.
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