Six Tar Heels Dot Roster For U.S. National Team Spring Premiere

SPARKS, Md. — The U.S. Women's National Team will open its 2019 playing schedule in the Spring Premiere at Stanford University from Jan. 25-27. University of North Carolina and U.S. senior team head coach Jenny Levy announced the 26-player roster that will represent the United States in the competition, a list that includes six current or former UNC players.

Tar Heels on the team include current sophomore Emma Trenchard as well as Kristen Carr (UNC '10), Molly Hendrick ('17), Marie McCool ('18), Emily Garrity Parros ('13) and Caylee Waters ('17). Carolina associate head coach Katrina Dowd also made the list.

The event will feature six teams, including both the U.S. senior and U19 teams, along with teams from England, Japan, Fresno State and Stanford. The complete schedule and ticket information will be announced soon.

The U.S. roster features 11 former World Cup champions, including three-time Tewaaraton winner Taylor Cummings and two-time Tewaaraton winner Katie Haus of Maryland, and eight current collegiate players, led by the 2018 Tewaaraton winner, Sam Apuzzo of Boston College.

Two players with strong California connections are competing for the senior team as well. Carr, a two-time World Cup champion, is currently an assistant coach at Stanford, whose head coach, Amy Bokker, helped the U.S. team win a pair of gold medals as an assistant coach. Kerrigan Miller, a junior at USC, was a member of the 2015 U.S. U19 team and will be playing in her first U.S. competition since helping the U.S. win the silver medal that summer.

Miller will be joined by Dowd, who helped Northwestern win three national championships, was the leading goal scorer for the 2013 U.S. senior team when she earned all-world honors. Dowd, an assistant coach for Canada at the 2017 World Cup, is back at Carolina as associate head coach after serving as head coach at Oregon the last two seasons.

U.S. Women's National Training Team
2019 Spring Premiere Roster
Name                               Position         College                            Professional Team (WPLL)
Sam Apuzzo                      A                    Boston College '19             —
Dempsey Arsenault            M Boston College '19             —
Becca Block                       D                    Syracuse '13                      New England
Mackenzie Burns                M/D Stony Brook '19                —
Kristen Carr                       D                    North Carolina '10              Upstate
Taylor Cummings              M                    Maryland '16                      New York
Molly Dougherty               G                    James Madison '21              —
Megan Douty                    D                    Maryland '15                      New England
Katrina Dowd                    A                    Northwestern '10               New York
Jen Giles                            M                    Maryland '19                      —
Katie Haus                         M                    Maryland '13                      Philadelphia
Molly Hendrick                  A                    North Carolina '17              Philadelphia (UWLX)
Liz Hogan                          G                    Syracuse '11                      Boston (UWLX)
Gussie Johns                      G                    USC '18                             Philadelphia
Ally Kennedy                     M                    Stony Brook '20                —
Marie McCool                    M                    North Carolina '18              Baltimore
Alice Mercer                      D                    Maryland '16                      New York
Kerrigan Miller                   M                    USC '20                             —
Katie O'Donnell                  M                    Penn State '18                    New England
Kylie Ohlmiller                    A                    Stony Brook '18                New York
Emily Garrity Parros           M                    North Carolina '13              Philadelphia (UWLX)
Kelsey Sheridan                 D                    Massachusetts '14               Baltimore
Kayla Treanor                    A                    Syracuse '16                      New York
Emma Trenchard               D                    North Carolina '21              —
Michelle Tumolo                 A                    Syracuse '13                      Philadelphia
Caylee Waters                   G                    North Carolina '17              Philadelphia

Six Tar Heels Dot Roster For U.S. National Team Spring Premiere

Players Mentioned

Molly Hendrick

Marie McCool

Emma Trenchard

Caylee Waters

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