Cloee Colohan of West Point, Utah was an integral member of the 20-player roster that just won the 2008 CONCACAF U-17 Women's Championship in Trinidad & Tobago. It was the first CONCACAF tournament staged at the Under-17 women's level with three teams from the region qualifying for the inaugural FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup to be held later this year in New Zealand.

The U.S. U-17 Women were drawn into Group A along with Costa Rica, El Salvador and hosts Trinidad & Tobago. "I'm really excited about this group," said Tambi, who has evaluated players over the last two years. "We've been fortunate to have a lot of training camps under our belt over the last several months and we've gotten better with each camp. It's a very high motivated group, a very talented group and they're dream is the same as mine, which is try to get to a world cup, first and foremost, and then to try to win it, also."

"Given that it's the first ever [championship] at this age bracket, we have a group of players who haven't had this kind of experience," said Tambi. "To some degree, this is kind of like a first-time experiment and we'll be learning on the job when we get there. Our plan is to take each game at a time and treat it like it's the biggest game and try to prevail in each game and then move on to the next."

The 2008 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup will take place in four New Zealand cities from Oct. 28 until Nov. 16. The draw for the event took place June 1, where the winner of the CONCACAF qualifying tournament was drawn into Group C as the seeded team along with Japan, France and Paraguay. Host New Zealand, Germany and Brazil garnered the other three seeds.

Post-Tournament Quotes from U.S. U-17 WNT Captain Cloee Colohan:

On her experience in the team's first-ever qualifying tournament: "It's been a really good experience. Being here in Trinidad is so much different that in the U.S. and just playing with the audience and everything is so different. I think it will help us if we get to New Zealand. It will calm us down and now we're used to the fans and everything."

On playing on the artificial turf: "We've been to a few training camps back at home and we've played on the artificial turf for a few months now so we're pretty used to the turf and how quickly it moves. It's good. We like it."

On how much she is looking forward to playing against the host country on Tuesday: "I think we are ecstatic. We can't wait. We want to win this whole thing. We want to take home the victory so I think we're really excited to play and see what the competition is like."

On trying to follow the footsteps of the U.S. Women's National Team: "It's been awesome. Being here (at this qualifying tournament) you get used to what the older girls do. Some girls don't understand that it's really tough. I look up to every girl here and every girl that's on the Olympic team. It's a great experience and hopefully we just keep working for the best. We have to just try our hardest to get (to the full National Team) and, if we don't, just keep working hard."

On being named captain for the match vs. El Salvador: "It felt really great. It was really exciting but also really nervous, being the team captain and trying to take care of everybody. But it was a great experience and I'm glad I was able to be the captain."