One year ago today – well, besides a certain team winning a world championship – the Washington Spirit Reserves and the Braddock Road Stars Elite (now the Washington Spirit Academy) faced each other close to full-strength. There were numerous players to watch on both rosters, so I made a record of the names and vowed to come back once a year to review where the players are now. So here’s the first entry:

Playing professionally in the NWSL: Caroline Casey (Sky Blue), Carson Pickett* (Seattle Reign).

Playing professionally overseas: Kara Wilson (Speranza FC Osaka Takatsuki, Japan), Sarah Zadrazil (Turbine Potsdam, Germany), Amber Stobbs (Reading FC, England).



Called to U-23 WNT: Meggie Dougherty Howard, Midge Purce, Andi Sullivan*, Ashley Herndon.

Called to U-20 WNT: Rose Chandler, Kaleigh Riehl, Carlyn Baldwin*.

Others of note:

Imani Dorsey – Started fifteen of twenty-one matches for Duke, scored game-winning goal against North Carolina.

Maddie Huster – Played in every game for Wake Forest and started all but the senior day game, named to ACC All-Academic Team.

Leci Irvin – Played in every game for William & Mary, starting twenty out of twenty-two, named to All-CAA Third Team.

Katelyn Jensen – Played most of the second half at goalkeeper for the Reserves, went on to Kentucky where despite being a freshman she started nineteen of twenty games with seven shutouts and a GAA of 1.06. Soccer News Net named her their Player of the Week for making thirteen saves against Florida to preserve a tie.

Elysse Branton – Played in 21 matches for William & Mary, named to CAA All-Tournament Team.

Nat Larkin – Played in 19 games for Princeton, helped them into NCAA tournament. Second-team All-Ivy League.

*Did not actually play in this game but were on team roster.

I’ll be back next year with an update on both these players and the notable players from the 2016 rosters.