Four WVU Alums Selected to Canadian National Team Camp
January 25, 2021 02:58 PM | Women's Soccer
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Four former members of the West Virginia University women's soccer team have been selected to participate at the Canadian Women's National Team training camp leading up to the 2021 SheBelieves Cup.
Defenders Kadeisha Buchanan, Ashley Lawrence and Bianca St. Georges and goalkeeper Rylee Foster will participate in the two-week preparation camp. Canada's final 23-player roster for the event, which takes place from Feb. 18-24, at Exploria Stadium, in Orlando, Florida, will be released in the days leading up to the opening match.
Canada is scheduled to face the United States, Japan and Brazil at the sixth edition of the international tournament. All four nations reached the knockout phase of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup and have qualified for the Tokyo 2021 Women's Olympic Football Tournament.
Buchanan (2020) and Lawrence (2019) have been awarded the two most recent Canadian Women's Player of the Year awards and played for the Canadian National Team at the 2015 and 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, as well as the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. Buchanan, the 2016 MAC Hermann Trophy winner and most decorated player in WVU program history, earned All-America honors in all four seasons in Morgantown from 2013-16. She also was a four-time winner of the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year award. For Lawrence, she earned All-America honors in 2015 and 2016, and graduated from WVU ranked No. 3 in career assists (29) and tied for No. 7 in matches started (87) in program history.
Buchanan currently plays professional for French club Olympique Lyonnais and has helped the club to multiple domestic and international championships since arriving in 2017. Lawrence also plays professionally in France for Paris Saint-Germain, earning her 100th career appearance with the club last weekend. Both players were recently named to The Guardian's "100 Best Female Footballers in the World 2020" list.
Foster and St. Georges are looking for their first international "A" appearance for the Canadian Women's National Team. St. Georges, a member of the Chicago Red Stars in the NWSL, was named to the Senior CLASS First Team and United Soccer Coaches All-America Second Team as a senior in 2018. She also was named the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year that season and was a three-time CoSIDA Academic All-American, including the 2018 Google Cloud Academic All-America of the Year for Division I women's soccer. Foster, who now plays at Liverpool FC in England, was a third-team All-America selection in 2018, and ranks No. 2 in Mountaineer history for shutouts (39) and goalkeeper minutes (7,671).
All four players selected to the National Team camp were on WVU's National Runner-Up roster in 2016, helping West Virginia to its first-ever trip to the Women's College Cup.
For more information on the Mountaineers, follow @WVUWomensSoccer on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Defenders Kadeisha Buchanan, Ashley Lawrence and Bianca St. Georges and goalkeeper Rylee Foster will participate in the two-week preparation camp. Canada's final 23-player roster for the event, which takes place from Feb. 18-24, at Exploria Stadium, in Orlando, Florida, will be released in the days leading up to the opening match.
Canada is scheduled to face the United States, Japan and Brazil at the sixth edition of the international tournament. All four nations reached the knockout phase of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup and have qualified for the Tokyo 2021 Women's Olympic Football Tournament.
Buchanan (2020) and Lawrence (2019) have been awarded the two most recent Canadian Women's Player of the Year awards and played for the Canadian National Team at the 2015 and 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, as well as the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. Buchanan, the 2016 MAC Hermann Trophy winner and most decorated player in WVU program history, earned All-America honors in all four seasons in Morgantown from 2013-16. She also was a four-time winner of the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year award. For Lawrence, she earned All-America honors in 2015 and 2016, and graduated from WVU ranked No. 3 in career assists (29) and tied for No. 7 in matches started (87) in program history.
Buchanan currently plays professional for French club Olympique Lyonnais and has helped the club to multiple domestic and international championships since arriving in 2017. Lawrence also plays professionally in France for Paris Saint-Germain, earning her 100th career appearance with the club last weekend. Both players were recently named to The Guardian's "100 Best Female Footballers in the World 2020" list.
Foster and St. Georges are looking for their first international "A" appearance for the Canadian Women's National Team. St. Georges, a member of the Chicago Red Stars in the NWSL, was named to the Senior CLASS First Team and United Soccer Coaches All-America Second Team as a senior in 2018. She also was named the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year that season and was a three-time CoSIDA Academic All-American, including the 2018 Google Cloud Academic All-America of the Year for Division I women's soccer. Foster, who now plays at Liverpool FC in England, was a third-team All-America selection in 2018, and ranks No. 2 in Mountaineer history for shutouts (39) and goalkeeper minutes (7,671).
All four players selected to the National Team camp were on WVU's National Runner-Up roster in 2016, helping West Virginia to its first-ever trip to the Women's College Cup.
For more information on the Mountaineers, follow @WVUWomensSoccer on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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