WPS Draft officially takes off...

The WPS Draft was held yesterday in St. Louis and I kept a close watch through twitter as most of the fans did. I did not work from the WPS offices most of this past week because the staff took off to good ole St.Louis for the NSCAA Convention and even more excitedly, our draft! 

I was lucky enough to attend the WPS West Coast Combine in San Diego in December, so I saw many of the Draft Picks play on the Combine fields. It was wild. I was glad to see many of them were drafted, like Christina DiMartino of UCLA. Let me tell you she is a treat to watch on the field. I have played and watched soccer for many years and watching DiMartino tap the ball around was stunning. I was not familiar with her game much, until I saw her play at the WPS Combine, and she instantly became the star on the field, it was hard to not watch her swift feet. Anyway, enough with the DiMartino talk, just see her with your own eyes and I am sure you will agree. So, many of those stand out players at the West Coast Combine made the cut like Abdullah, Abegg, Falk, Igwe, etc. 

Check out the full list I was able to post up at the WPS Fan Corner.  Oh and there are pictures too!

Anyway, now the teams have developed their rosters and the only thing standing between today and a complete roster is the open try out set to take place by each team in Feb. Open Try Outs always seem exciting to me, because you never know what will shock and what unknown player can become a pro over night. 

Oh I thought I would share with you all how the WPS Offices in San Francisco are doing.  Not only are the rosters and the league expanding dramatically, so is the WPS headquarters. Tuesday,  a few of us who were left in the office got the experience the wall coming down, literally. The back wall of the WPS offices were torn down in order to expand the office. Mighty exciting. After the layer of dust settled and the wall was gone, it was a pretty site. What do you think?

Oh ya. 

Cheers, 

Sue

Tis the Season.

I have been working with Women's Professional Soccer the past 4 months which has been awesome. I moved my life, or how ever much of my life fit in my toyota corolla, to the city of San Francisco. What a city. It's so much fun. Ever been? Not only did i get to move to a hott new city but I spent my days at the WPS offices. Legit. 

I am in Los Angeles for the Holidays. And great it is. You could mistake the weather for a warm day in July and the holiday spirit it still afloat. Being home is more than fun, much due to the Nerf Guns that were bought for Christmas. If you want to see your parents run around like mad, as if for a second they were five years old again, buy them Nerf Guns. They transform adults into kids and a house into a makeshift fort. 

Don't get me wrong, I am not an advocate of guns but I am a fan of little styrofoam darts that do no harm other than turning furniture into protection and a family portrait into a dart board....

1 point for the kids and 2 for the parents. My brother Giancarlo won. 

We were being attacked.

Then came the sneak attack...sucker. 

Christmas proved to be quite the fiesta. My grandma got into the spirit by "getting low" 

Oh man, so good...

New Years will be spent at my house in LA tomorrow. It will be great. Check in to see how it goes. 

Let's Share...

So I thought as 2009 begins, so should begin a blog. Blogs are pretty fun and a way to share some thought and info with everyone. So this is my chance to keep you all on par with the adventures I undertake and more importantly for you to share your life with me. I think we can call it sharing a cup of coffee? No? I think it works. Casual, cool and in comfy chairs. 

Legit. And so it begins...