Stronger Together

why we rollin in that dough?

idk but here’s a table of the top 25 best attended D1 College Women’s Soccer teams over the past 7 years (the life of the NWSL, and coincidentally, the length of time the NCAA has been reliably recording this statistic).

I slapped NWSL attendance on there with it for scale. “Close” was defined as within an hour’s transit, whether by car or public transportation.

Answer: those wild sons of guns sure do love women’s soccer

What would Utah’s total woso attendance (NWSL and D1 NCAA) look like compared to a handful of actual leagues?

Here’s a comparison across a few leagues during recent seasons. To make it fair while still using complete data sets, this table will show pre-wwc seasons, since the world cup bump seasons for some leagues are still underway.

holy shit!!!

Re-entry Wire Players: Kyra Carusa (Forward) Cali Farquharson  (Forward) Arielle Ship  (Forward)

How do they stack up! Here’s a modified report I made on a few big 2019 Royals/NWSL names a little while ago, compared to some data on Farquharson and Ship. They were both out on injury for 2017.

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Sky Blue never played Kyra Carusa the one season they had her, but before she joins the royals she’ll probably finish out the season with La Havre, the D2 French team she’s playing for this offseason. Not a ton of data there, but so far she’s played four games and scored four goals (nice). 

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This chart compares NCAA career data for all three players. For reference, the next chart down shows career data for some current top forwards at the best college for soccer close by the Royals (heads up, there’s still a few more games for them this season that aren’t counted).

Carusa redshirted at Stanford a year and then played three seasons with them. As a technical graduate student, she played one season at Georgetown. 

Redshirting/Playing at Stanford, she worked with: Lo'Eau LaBonta (Utah Royals) Alana Cook (PSG, recent USWNT call up) Tierna Davidson (CRS, USWNT) Andi Sullivan (Spirit, recently called back up to USWNT) Jane Campbell (Dash, 3 USWNT caps) Chioma Ubogagu (Pride, recent England call up)