January 24, 2004

Utahns Called to National Team Duty

Stephanie Ebner of Taylorsville, Utah and Marco Angelo of Draper, Utah have been called back to National Team duty with the U.S Women's National Under-21 team and the U.S. Men's National Under-15 team respectively. Ebner and Angelo are products of the Utah Youth Soccer Association's Olympic Development Program and club teams affiliated with UYSA. Ebner was previously a member of the U-19 World Cup Championship team, becoming the first Utahn to win a World Cup at any level.

U.S. Under-21 Women's National Team Head Coach Chris Petrucelli will begin his second year at the helm of the USA's oldest youth national team with a 25-player training camp at U.S. Soccer's National Training Center in Carson, Calif., from Jan. 23-Feb. 1. The U-21s are working towards the 2004 Nordic Cup, the top competition in the world for U-21 women, to be held this summer in Iceland. The roster also includes five players from the USA's 2002 Under-19 World Championship team in Keeley Dowling, Stephanie Ebner, Sarah Huffman, Jill Oakes and Manya Makoski, as well as the only player in the current U.S. Women's National Team pools from Hawaii, Natasha Kai from the University of Hawaii, who scored 29 goals for the Rainbow Wahines last season.

The U.S. Under-15 Men's National Team arrived in Guadalajara, Mexico, this weekend as it gets set for a 7-day tour where the 34-player roster will be divided into two teams that each play three games. Each team will play Chivas and Tecos, plus a team still to be determined. Head coaches Manfred Schellschiedt and Ken Lolla have brought a roster filled with players mainly born in 1989.

Below are the full rosters for the U.S. U-21 WNT and the U.S. U-15 MNT:

U.S. U-21 WNT Roster

GOALKEEPERS (2): Nicole Barnhart (Stanford), Amanda Brown (Penn State); DEFENDERS (9): Jenna Cooper (Nebraska), Imani Dorsey (Portland), Keeley Dowling (Tennessee); Stefanie Ebner (Arizona State), Hayley Hunt (Stanford); Nandi Pryce (UCLA); Christie Shaner (Notre Dame), Carmen Watley (UNC), Lauren Zealer (Santa Clara); MIDFIELDERS (8): Sarah Huffman (Virginia), Lindsey Huie (Portland), Carly Lloyd (Rutgers), Joanna Lohman (Penn State), Manya Makoski (Arizona State), Jill Oakes (UCLA), Rosa Anna Tantillo (Southern California), Kacey White (UNC); FORWARDS (6): Tina Frimpong (Washington), Kelly Hammond (Virginia), Natasha Kai (Hawaii), Juliane Sitch (DePaul), Amy Warner (Notre Dame), Tiffany Weimer (Penn State).

U.S. U-15 MNT Roster

GOALKEEPERS (4): Matthew Brutto (Warrington, Pa.), Jonathan Harris (Arlington Heights, Ill.), Drew Kotler (Wynwood, Pa.), Brian Perk (R.S. Margarita, Calif.); DEFENDERS (7): Kemo Djedovic (San Jose, Calif.), Douglas Ferner (Bloomfield, Mich.), Cameron Lamming (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), Raphael Martinez (Portage, Ind.), Steven Morales (Farmingdale, N.Y.), Lucas Swertloff (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Darryl Tom (Los Altos, Calif.); MIDFIELDERS (16): Marco Angelo (Sandy, Utah), Bryan Arguez (Miami, Fla.), Edgar Barajas (San Fernando, Calif.), Cameron Brown (Garland, Texas), Guiseppe Carotenuto (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Victor Cortez (El Sobrante, Calif.), Christen Dominguez (Houston, Texas), Andrew Duran (Mokena, Ill.), Matthew Kassel (Bridgewater, N.J.), Jonathan Kluz (Etiwanda, Calif.), Perica Marosevic (Rockford, Ill.), Armando Rocha (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Tucker Sindlinger (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Miguel Tanton (Cupertino, Calif.), Carlos Uribe (Miami, Fla.), Anthony Wallace (St. Petersburg, Fla.); FORWARDS (7): Andrew Giallombardo (Manalpan, N.J.), Kareem Lacayo (San Francisco, Calif.), Demitrius Omphroy (Alameda, Calif.), Joseph Sorrentino (Trenton, N.J.), John Tardy (Staton Island, N.Y.), Justin True (Lee's Summit, Mo.), Jeffrey Zimering (Basking Ridge, N.J.).