April 12, 2011
CHICAGO, Ill. - Penn State women's soccer standout Christine Nairn (Arnold, Md.) was just one of three collegiate players to be tapped by U.S. National Coach Pia Sundhage for a training camp beginning April 18. Nairn is one of 29 players named to the camp and will report to camp starting on April 25. Penn State alum Ali Krieger, who has been a U.S. National Team mainstay for the past 18 months, will also take part.
Along with Sydney Leroux of UCLA and Kristie Mewis of Boston College, Nairn is one of three college players attending the camp. The three collegiate athletes will be training for partial periods of the whole training camp as Nairn will play April 25-29, while Leroux and Mewis will train April 18-22. Out of the three, Nairn is the only one to score a goal and has the most caps of each of the youngsters with two at the senior level. Leroux has one cap and Mewis has yet to see action on the full national team.
Krieger has been participating with the U.S. team in friendlies and the 2010 World Cup qualifying, which the Americans secured with a two-legged victory over Italy. Krieger has been a an outside fullback for Sundhage's side for quite a while and is expected to crack the starting rotation for the World Cup in July.
The full training camp runs from April 18-May 6 in West Palm Beach, Fla. with Sundhage working on the final 21-player roster for the 2011 FIFA World Cup in Germany this summer. The camp will lead up to a pair of friendlies against Japan on May 14 in Columbus, Ohio and May 18 in Cary, N.C.
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