She works hard on cone drills and it's paying off. She's making the defenders look like cones out there. Not only is she exciting, skilled and aggressive, she's very fast.

She works hard on cone drills and it's paying off,

[? Sprint from cone to cone. Place three to five cones around the field, 10 yards apart. In mid-sprint Kennedy calls out which cone to run toward.] Change of direction is important, ... If you can't separate from defensive backs, you're not going to make it.

Then the coach said to me, 'Is this one of your national team goalies?' and I said, 'No,' ... The stereotype that [college coaches] usually want is the bigger, taller goalie, and she wasn't that at all.

Erin definitely kept us in the game. There was a point in the first 10 minutes that I thought it could be really ugly, but she had some big saves. Erin and the defense did enough to keep us competitive.

He?s a presence. He?s been working real hard and it?s been paying off.