The Spirit will host Penn State at 4 p.m. on March 17, North Carolina at 3 p.m. on March 30 and Virginia at 7:30 p.m. on April 6. Additional scrimmages will be announced in the coming days.
Welcome our fourth free agent signing, 23-year-old defender Kika Toulouse, who returns home to the Washington area after a season playing professionally in Sweden for the Ragsveds IF and played club college soccer in Virginia.
We open our first NWSL season on the road with a match against the Boston Breakers on April 14, then welcome Spirit fans to the intimate confines of the Maryland SoccerPlex for our home opener on April 20, against Olympic gold medalists Abby Wambach and Carli Lloyd and the Western New York Flash.
The Washington Spirit have signed 29 year old Candace Chapman who was born in Trinidad and Tobago and grew up in Ajax, Ontario. The experienced central defender has been part of the Canadian Women’s National team since 2002, earning 108 total caps (5 goals), and was most recently part of the 2012 Canadian Women’s Olympic bronze medal team and Pan American Games gold medal team.
