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Saint Louis Athletica of Women’s Professional Soccer, WPS, announced today the start of the Athletica Twitter Contest. The winner of this contest will become Athletica’s official “Twitter Captain” for the 2010 season. Responsibilities of the “Twitter Captain” will include being the Athletica Game Day Twitter Captain on Saint Louis Athletica’s Twitter account, “TheJoanies.”

Fans wishing to participate in the contest just need one tweet to enter between the dates of November 15, and ending on Nov… Continue

ST. LOUIS (November 11, 2009) Saint Louis Athletica will soon have a joint tenant at The Anheuser-Busch Soccer Park. St. Louis Soccer United, the parent company of St. Louis Athletica, announced that they have formed a new professional soccer league to play in the United States and Canada beginning in April 2010.

The yet to be named St. Louis franchise will be joined in the new league by the following teams, all formerly of the USL-1; Atlanta Silverbacks, Carolina Railhawks, Miami FC, Minnesota… Continue

ST. LOUIS, MO (November 10, 2009) – Elise Weber found herself in a situation that many rookie players in the WPS went through in 2009. Weber realized that the WPS is one tough league, and a league not particularly easy for first year professionals.

“During my first professional season, I realized that I needed work in several areas of my game,” said Weber. “I know I can improve in these areas through repetitive individual work.”

Weber didn’t get to do a lot of this type of training at this tim… Continue