Tampa Twins Named to '93 Girls National Pool

July 21, 2007

Fourteen year old twins, Shelby and Sydney Payne received word late last night that they have both been named to the ’93 Girls US Soccer Youth National Pool. Shelby and Sydney just returned home from the Olympic Development Program (ODP) Regional III Camp in Alabama when they received word that they would be packing up and heading to California for an exciting week of competition and training.

Shelby and Sydney are members of RSL Florida’s U-17 Girls team coached by Jason Streets and Ben Strawbridge. They relocated to Florida from Colorado eighteen months ago and became immediate impact players for RSL Florida. The last few weeks and months of soccer have been both rewarding and exciting as the Payne sisters have played for the FYSA state championship, were appointed to Florida’s Olympic Development Program, made it to ODP regional camp and now, the ’93 National Pool. The Youth National Team will be chosen from the Youth National Pool during November camps.

Also attending ODP Regional Camp was RSL Florida boys U-16 team member T.J. Roehn. According to Adrian Bush, General Manager of RSL Florida, T.J. performed very well at Region III camp and benefited tremendously from the experience.