The league is built based on the down-to-earth nature and approachability of its athletes. “Getting Silly with the Breakers” is a fun-filled way to create a comfortable bond between the fans and the professional athletes who are the Boston Breakers.
A special thanks to Erica Hunt, the communications director for the team, as well as the players themselves for making this approach possible.
Though perhaps not as well known a name as some of her rookie peers entering Women’s Professional Soccer this season, Boston Breakers goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher, holds the distinction of being the first keeper taken in the 2010 WPS College Draft.
Truth be told, Naeher carries the honors of being the highest drafted shot stopper in WPS history to date, as the first back stop wasn’t selected until the third round of the 2009 WPS draft (Karen Bardsley, Sky Blue with the 18th overall pick).
So while names like Tobin Heath, Lauren Cheney, Kelley O’Hara and Whitney Engen may be likely to battle for Rookie of the Year honors, the pride of Seymour, Connecticut can go about her business knowing that she holds a unique place in WPS history. Read the rest of this entry →
The league is built based on the down-to-earth nature and approachability of its athletes. “Getting Silly with the Breakers” is a fun-filled way to create a comfortable bond between the fans and the professional athletes who are the Boston Breakers.
A special thanks to Erica Hunt, the communications director for the team, as well as the players themselves for making this approach possible.
Together with fellow WPS rookie, Tobin Heath, and rookie emeritus, Amy Rodriguez, they’ve been affectionately referred to as the New Kids of the Women’s National Team.
After you watch the following Youtube video featuring the affable trio, you may be tempted to rename them Curly, Larry and Moe. The Three Stooges of the WPS represent the new face of Women’s Professional Soccer and each promise to not only make an immediate impact to their respective teams this season, but also share the light-hearted and approachable personality that Women’s Professional Soccer is trying to project.
The following is part of a weekly series in which writer Todd Civin presents the lighter side of the Boston Breakers of Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS).
The league is built based on the down-to-earth nature and approachability of its athletes. “Getting Silly with the Breakers” is a fun-filled way to create a comfortable bond between the fans and the professional athletes who are the Boston Breakers.
A special thanks to Erica Hunt, the communications director for the team, as well as the players themselves for making this approach possible.
For those who have followed the ongoing series entitled, Getting Silly…I assume you have noticed my frequent attempts at humor as a vehicle to break down the professional athletes from the Boston Breakers.
In each episode I’ve tried to use my relatively dry sense of humor to get playful with the ladies from the WPS who make Harvard Stadium their home. My goal has been to pick on a character trait of each player and poke a little fun, strike a nerve, pick a scab. So, when I wrote about Alex Scott who hails from Britain, I, of course, used the Monty Python motif, and when sharing an interview with Kasey Moore who went to school in Texas, I predictably went with the cowgirl spoof.
In each case, the athlete being featured played back with me but ultimately became victim to be sense of sarcasm and buckled under the pressure of my Gitmo-like interview techniques.
And then I met Alli Lipsher, goal keeper for the Breakers. Born and raised in Honolulu, Lipsher needed to wade through an array of hula girl, Don Ho, Hawaii-5-0 and more. Since this is a family show I did stop short of any jokes containing the word lei. Read the rest of this entry →
The league is built based on the down-to-earth nature and approachability of its athletes. “Getting Silly with the Breakers” is a fun-filled way to create a comfortable bond between the fans and the professional athletes who are the Boston Breakers.
A special thanks to Erica Hunt, the communications director for the team, as well as the players themselves for making this approach possible.
Born in Riverside, CA and raised in Mission Viejo, Kasey Moore has probably spent more than her share of time in one of three places—the beach, the mall, or a traffic jam.
What would motivate a girl from the valley to decide to pack her beach-ball and surfboard and take her game to the University of Texas to play for the Longhorns?
Cowboys? Chewing tobacco? Tumbleweed? Spurs? Mechanical bull riding? Only her hairdresser knows for sure.
They say you can take the girl out of the country but you can’t take the country out of the girl and if the same holds true for a valley girl, one can assume that Kasey Moore looked like a fish out of water walking down Main Street in Austin, Texas. Read the rest of this entry →
The league prides itself in the down-to-earth nature and approachability of its athletes, and Civin believes that “Getting Silly with the Breakers” is an fun-filled way to create a comfortable bond between the fans and the professional athletes who are the Boston Breakers.
A special thanks to Erica Hunt, the communications director for the team, as well as the players themselves for making this approach possible.
On the field, Boston Breakers’ defender extraordinaire, Amy Lepeilbet (pronounced Lee-pell-bet) is all business, as she takes on the top offensive stars of the Women’s Professional Soccer League. The reigning Secretary of Defense spent much of the first season of WPS play successfully disrupting the offensive game of the league’s top players.
Her stalwart defensive efforts made the Breakers the third stingiest defense in the league and led to her being named the MedImmune Defender of the Year. Her shut-down defense also earned the respect of her peers as she gained the most All-star votes as selected by the players. Read the rest of this entry →
The league prides itself in the down-to-earth nature and approachability of its athletes, and Civin believes that “Getting Silly with the Breakers” is an fun-filled way to create a comfortable bond between the fans and the professional athletes who are the Boston Breakers.
A special thanks to Erica Hunt, the communications director for the team, as well as the players themselves for making this approach possible.
In last season’s series called “Meet The Breakers”, I described Jennifer Nobis as “a person who marches to the beat of a different drummer.”
Though I hadn’t met her at that point, it was clear from Nobis’ Boston Breaker bio, that she tends to walk slightly out of step. A free spirit. A non-conformist.
This season’s series “Getting Silly,” has allowed me to get up close and personal with the Breakers and has afforded me the opportunity to see these professional athletes with their hair down and slightly tangled. After getting to know Nobis a bit better through this Question and Answer format, I now describe her a wee bit differently than I did before. Read the rest of this entry →
We honor Dwight Evans as the Boston Sports Then and Now Athlete of the Month. With the opening of the baseball season around the corner, the choice of “Dewey” Evans is fitting. He was a player who gave his all, all the time to the Boston Red Sox where he played from 1972 to 1990. He is one of the best players not in the Baseball Hall Of Fame.
Dwight Michael Evans made an immediate impact in his professional baseball career by winning the International League’s MVP in 1972. With AAA Louisville, Evans had 17 hrs, 95 RBI and hit .300.
Dewey was called up to the tail end of the ’72 season. On September 16th, he pinch ran and was 0-1 at the plate. He played 18 games and decent numbers during his call up. In 57 plate appearances, Evans had 1 hr, 6 RBI and batted .263.
Dwight Evans called right field in Fenway Park his home. He was a defensive standout and offensively could hold his own.
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