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5. Holden- F or MF. She is listed as a MF in the services, but most of her tape is R/LF.  She looks to have decent speed and skill, but I wasn’t blown away. A lot of the video has high school tape which is hard to evaluate though; so I may be making a bad assessment here. She also likes to cut inside more then stay wide at forward. She won’t play much at MF, but options are open as a reserve forward.

Brooke Holden just earned the Women's Premiere Soccer League National Offensive Player of the Week Award (after scoring 6 goals in 3 games). She is the overall leading scorer in the WPSL So Cal Conference with 12 goals. #2 is Long Beach State's rising senior Cherrie Cox (a former Big West Offensive Player of the Year) with 10 goals. Prep Soccer has Holden as only the #25-ranked player in California and Top Drawer Soccer has her as only a 3 star. May be underrated.

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7. Y-Lan Nguyen - MF. A little small, but a better athlete than I expected. She has played for the USWNT youth teams at a couple of levels. Her skill level is just wow - and I was looking at 2 year old tape. Beautiful control, excellent passing and accurate shooting. If she can hold up physically at the NCAA level, MF is going to be a mess to sort out.

I was doing some research on Nguyen and saw she was selected as the United Soccer Coaches National Girls Player of the Year for 2024. Only 1 player earns that designation: 2024 Players of the Year Across All Levels  Nguyen also started for Team USA and played 85 minutes vs Spain in the U-17 World Cup last October. Can't wait to see what she does on the Farm.

It's probably been mentioned, but Jordyn Bugg was originally a member of this class but she signed with the Seattle Reign instead (and already has a couple caps with the US U-23 team). Crazy to think that, had they not turned pro, this year's team would have both Thompson sisters and Bugg.

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5. Holden- F or MF. She is listed as a MF in the services, but most of her tape is R/LF.  She looks to have decent speed and skill, but I wasn’t blown away. A lot of the video has high school tape which is hard to evaluate though; so I may be making a bad assessment here. She also likes to cut inside more then stay wide at forward. She won’t play much at MF, but options are open as a reserve forward.

Brooke Holden just earned the Women's Premiere Soccer League National Offensive Player of the Week Award (after scoring 6 goals in 3 games). She is the overall leading scorer in the WPSL So Cal Conference with 12 goals. #2 is Long Beach State's rising senior Cherrie Cox (a former Big West Offensive Player of the Year) with 10 goals. Prep Soccer has Holden as only the #25-ranked player in California and Top Drawer Soccer has her as only a 3 star. May be underrated.

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7. Y-Lan Nguyen - MF. A little small, but a better athlete than I expected. She has played for the USWNT youth teams at a couple of levels. Her skill level is just wow - and I was looking at 2 year old tape. Beautiful control, excellent passing and accurate shooting. If she can hold up physically at the NCAA level, MF is going to be a mess to sort out.

I was doing some research on Nguyen and saw she was selected as the United Soccer Coaches National Girls Player of the Year for 2024. Only 1 player earns that designation: 2024 Players of the Year Across All Levels  Nguyen also started for Team USA and played 85 minutes vs Spain in the U-17 World Cup last October. Can't wait to see what she does on the Farm.

It's probably been mentioned, but Jordyn Bugg was originally a member of this class but she signed with the Seattle Reign instead (and already has a couple caps with the US U-23 team). Crazy to think that, had they not turned pro, this year's team would have both Thompson sisters and Bugg.