Cavaliers Called To Overlapping Youth National Team Training Camps

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Four members of the Virginia women’s soccer program have been called to training camp with the U.S. U-20 and U-19/U18 Youth National Teams it was announced by U.S. Soccer with the release of the rosters for the latest camp.

Forward Maggie Cagle, midfielders Jill Flammia and Yuna McCormack, and goalkeeper Victoria Safradin were all selected for the training camp. Cagle and Flammia are rising sophomores with the Cavaliers, while McCormack is an early enrollee after signing with the program last fall. Safradin also signed with the Cavaliers in November and will join the program for the upcoming academic year.

The U.S. U-20 Women’s Youth National Team will hold a training camp from April 15-22 and there will be a combined U-18/U-19 Women’s Youth National Team training camp running from April 12-19. The teams will train at the WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, N.C., at the University of North Carolina and at Duke University over the course of the camps.

During the four-day overlap between the camps, the teams will scrimmage against each other while U.S. U-20 Women’s Youth National Team head coach Tracey Kevins will evaluate all 46 players in preparation for choosing a 21-player roster that will compete in the 2023 Concacaf Women’s Under-20 Championship which will be held from May 25-June 4 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Carrie Kveton will be the head coach for the U-19/U-18 camp while Kevins will run the U-20 camp.

All the players in both camps are age-eligible for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup, the host of which has yet to be determined, which will feature players born on or after Jan. 1, 2004.