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College Scholarships For
Team Chicago Soccer Girls:
It pays…
to continue playing...
By Phyllis Ellam
Wheatland Athletic
Association
Public Relations
Director
Most
kids get their first
exposure to team sports
through park districts and
local leagues but rarely do
they stay with a program for
13 years. That is not
the case with Oakhurst
residents
Amanda Boe and
Molly Borchardt.
Both are 2005 graduates of
Waubonsie Valley High School
and both started playing
soccer with the Wheatland
Athletic Association’s (WAA)
Kindergarten program in
the fall of 1991 and they
recently just wrapped up the
U18 Panthers season with
Team Chicago Soccer Club
the traveling soccer program
of the WAA.
Molly will continue her
soccer career at DePaul
University where she will be
a freshmen defender and
Amanda will be attending
Washington University in St.
Louis and will play goal
keeper for the school.
“The WAA and Team Chicago
has given me an opportunity
to play the game that I
love” said Amanda.
“I’ve played T-Ball,
softball, summer basketball,
and traveling basketball
besides soccer and I’ve been
able to earn money by
refereeing, working soccer
camps and hall monitoring
for the WAA and I know Molly
has done the same."
Members of the Team Chicago
U18 Panthers soccer team,
most with college
scholarships, at the 2005
Banquet. Not pictured
are Meredith Novak and Lynn
Bovard.
The list of young women who
have received scholarships
for college does not end
with Amanda and Molly.
Other athletes from Team
Chicago Soccer Club that
have also received
scholarships include:
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Meredith Novak-
University of
Wisconsin-Parkside
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Lynn Bovard – US
Naval Academy
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Sarah Teegarden –
University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Bailey Briggs -
University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Ariel Fortune –
Azusa Pacific University
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Hannah Nussbaum –
Northern Illinois
University
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Colleen Hillgard
– Grand Valley State
University
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Vida Mohagheghpour
- Grand Valley State
University
Check
our website waasports.org
for more information on our
programs.
You may also email us if
you a success story you
would like to share.
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