Phoenix 91 Spring 2005 season:

    After a successful and exciting trip to England the U13 Phoenix 91 captured the outright VCCL title yesterday with a convincing 4-0 win against Beach FC. The season started with a dramatic come from behind victory over the defending Champs FC Richmond Mystics, this was also only their second loss ever in league play. The next day the girls beat SOCA in Charlottesville 2-1. The girls next faced Roanoke and drew 1-1 at home. The next four matches saw the Phoenix outscore their 4 remaining opponents by a total of 13 goals for and zero against to wrap up sole possession of the U13 girls title (Richmond Stickers 3-0, Reston 3-0, Richmond Kickers 3-0 and Beach FC 4-0). In the final game against Beach FC four different players scored goals Elizabeth Palmer started the scoring off, Jordan Baldasare slotted the second goal home and we were up 2-0 and the half. In the second half Nicole Segala scored from a great angled pass through by Marina Kolioupolus and Gabrielle (Gib) Zagursky finished the game off with a fine free kick.

  The U13 Phoenix has 18 players committed to excellence 12 out of the 18 current roster started their careers in WSC’s developmental programs. Also, the Phoenix has 8 of the original 12 players who started at the U10 age group. The original 8 members are as followed (Tori Cooke, Ann Gerhardt, Gabrielle Zagursky, Abbey McIninch, Jessica Napoleon, Elizabeth Palmer, Erika Tarley, and Jesse Thompson). Their were 4 players added between the U10-11 years from the developmental teams ( Mimi Laycock, Lauren Mills, Nicole Segala, and Maddy Duke) and we also added 6 players from outside of the club ( Jordan Baldasare, Marina Koliopoulos, Nalani Newton, Karina Nigro, Marisa Rongstad, and Jordan Snider). All 18 have contributed to the team’s success.The U13 Phoenix finished in fourth place this past fall, however, most of their matches during that season were very close.