Some might think that being a highly ranked national collegiate women’s soccer powerhouse would mean you could defeat a high school boys’ team.
They would be wrong.
The University of Washington Lady Huskies, a team that won a Big 10 tournament game and qualified for the Elite Eight last year, took on a team of teenage boys. Except, these weren’t even 18-year-old high school boys’ players; it was a U-14 team.
On April 30, the Lady Huskies faced a team called CROSSFIRE, composed of 14-year-olds.
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The final score was 2-1, according to Brandi Kruse.
Not a crushing defeat by any means, but man, that is a rough look for a college-level team, of any gender.
The loss brings back memories of the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) losing to a U-15 boys’ team 5-2 in 2017.
In fact, the U.S. women had just won the World
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