Youth Girls - ECNL

Proud PDA rolls out welcome mat for nation’s top teams, college coaches at ECNL Showcase

With its packed slate of big games, high-octane atmosphere, massed ranks of college coaches and attention to the details, the ECNL National Showcase: Zarephath is one of the biggest dates on the elite youth soccer calendar, and it's not hard to see why.

Proud PDA rolls out welcome mat for nation’s top teams, college coaches at ECNL Showcase

Challenges prompt problem-solving at ECNL National Showcase: Zarephath

The ECNL National Showcase: Zarephath offered participating teams many useful learning experiences as their players worked to overcome injuries, fatigue, long journeys, unfamiliar conditions, talented opposition and sometimes, their own eccentricities.

ECNL – Zarephath (PDA) 2012 Coverage Central

Keep up with all the action at the Elite Club National League’s final national showcase event of the 2011/12 regular season, where all things lead to Waukegan, Illinois for the 3rd ECNL National Championship week in history. This time, 110 teams in just three age groups (U15/16/17) match up on the immaculate Player Development Academy complex in cozy Zaraphath, NJ to battle it out for berths into the championship groups, avoid the relegation groups, or to fight for their overall club position and pride.

Challenges prompt problem-solving at ECNL National Showcase: Zarephath

TSW Q&A: Northwestern women’s soccer coach Michael Moynihan at ECNL Zarephath Showcase

TSW talked recruiting, player development and much more with Michael Moynihan, the head women's soccer coach at Northwestern University, at the ECNL National Showcase Event: Zarephath over the weekend.

Momentum, rhythm in focus as PDA Showcase marks final stretch of ECNL season

Some ECNL teams have nearly completed their slate of 2011-12 matches, while others have a large chunk of games still to play. Yet no matter where they stand in that regard, the arrival of the National Showcase event in Zarephath, N.J. over Memorial Day weekend is an inescapable reminder that the season’s home stretch is at hand – the time when places in next month’s ECNL National Championships are secured.

TSW Q&A: Northwestern women’s soccer coach Michael Moynihan talks recruiting, soccer IQ