she is phenomenal from our sister school Portland. After the way they lost to the US in London in 2012 when Christine had a hat trick, they deserved this. When they talked about Sweden beating Canada in the 2003 semis (BTW in Portland) people forget that Christine was on that team. She led that team and I am so glad they won. ND has had some great Canadians play on that national team most noteably Tancredi who was on the last two bronze medal team.
if memory serves, correctly.
Sinclair, Melissa Tancredi, Candace Chapman all initally come to mind.
Couldn't resist the Leon connection, given how it gave ND Women's Soccer that last NCAA championship, which was a surprise to many ND soccer followers.
Kudos to Sinclair, always a class act. Saw Abby Wambach's message to her, which was a class and heartfelt act.
He left ND in the lurch (in the middle of the night on January 1 (4 weeks before signing day)) to pursue the Houston dash job thinking that would propel him to the top job with with the USWNT. Didn't quite work out that way (link below). Then in an on brand move while still the Pitt head coach (and without telling the Pitt administration) he took the Nigerian head coaching job without informing the Nigerian federation that he had no intention to give up the Pitt job despite the fact that the Nigerian job was a full time job. He did, however, successfully land his reprobate son (ND had canned him as an assistant years before Randy left) a job at Pitt in the process. I've seen enough of him to know what you get there. He's got some coaching chops but all the other drama isn't worth it
then that's quite the roll on Randy's part. And not in a good way.
Waldrum's quite a handle...stories coming from then Alumni Field were pretty, umm, interesting. But he set up some solid recruiting links with certain clubs to get consistent talent and he did something with it.
You can tell he started losing interest after the last championship, but he still had had a boatload of talent there when he left (Roccaro, Naughton are still pros). But it looked like that run had taken it's course....