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New York Post
21-06-2025
- Sport
- New York Post
Lilly Reale's quick emergence as Gotham FC star has her in the USWNT mix
Sometimes, when an impressive opening act at the professional level and strong performances at the U23 camp string together, a first United States women's national team call-up becomes inevitable. So Margueritte Aozasa knew it was 'on the horizon' for Lilly Reale, she told The Post. Everything had been trending in that direction. The UCLA coach spoke with friends who worked with the Gotham FC and former Bruins defender at the U23 sessions earlier this year, gathered plenty of positive reviews and then watched as Gotham coach Juan Carlos Amorós surprised Reale with the news in a team meeting earlier this week. Advertisement 4 Lilly Reale has impressed with Gotham, FC this season. Noah K. Murray-NY Post Reale, one of three Gotham players (defender Emily Sonnett, midfielder Rose Lavelle) named to the training camp roster ahead of three upcoming friendlies, has already carved out a role as Gotham's left back, starting 11 of their first 12 matches and blending her defensive roots with offensive potential. She logged a goal and an assist in her first seven matches. She made a seamless position switch after college, too. Advertisement And on a Gotham side filled with veterans, Reale has provided a jolt of youth to a lineup still searching for a rhythm as the NWSL season nears its five-week international break, with the USWNT chance just the latest tangible sign of her continued emergence. 'We're trying to help her in the adaptation,' Amorós said Friday ahead of their Saturday match against Bay FC at Sports Illustrated Stadium, 'but she's helping herself.' Reale's route to Gotham veered away from the traditional one for college players, with the NWSL abolishing its draft last August in the new CBA. Advertisement That, Aozasa said, is ideal for someone such as Reale, who 'should have the choice to go where she wants to go.' 4 Lilly Reale played collegiately at UCLA. Getty Images She trained with Gotham briefly last summer — something that's common around the league for college players during the offseason — and relied upon those experiences, as well as the chance to continue working with veterans such as Sonnett, when inking a deal in January that runs through 2027, Aozasa said. By the time the season started, though, she'd already made a position switch. Advertisement After arriving at UCLA ahead of Reale's sophomore season, Aozasa plugged her into the center back spot and watched her serve as the Bruins' defensive anchor. 4 UCLA women's soccer coach Margueritte Aozasa. NCAA Photos via Getty Images When they won the national championship in 2022, Reale earned Most Outstanding Defensive Player at the College Cup. Then, as a senior, Reale helped them lead the country in goals against average and shutouts. But during that final season in 2024, Aozasa sensed that Reale was ready to attack more. She knew that Reale would never say she was bored, but sometimes Aozasa would think, 'Oh man, she wants to make it interesting. She's gonna go try to dribble 50 yards.' And most times, Aozasa added, 'she was successful, so couldn't really blame her.' 'I think the pro teams started to see some of her great attacking qualities,' Aozasa said, 'and that's why she's made the transition to outside back at Gotham and has done so well with it.' 4 Lilly Reale dribbles during the Gotham FC-Orlando Pride match on March 23, 2025. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect Advertisement When Gotham faced Angel City FC on April 18, Aozasa brought the UCLA team, and from BMO Stadium she sensed that Reale's transition to the NWSL — and the new position — was already working. Reale was 'inviting pressure' against Angel City, and that, Aozasa said, doesn't happen without being comfortable. She used deception, and that requires comfort, too. The speed wasn't a roadblock. Physicality didn't prompt any obstacles, either. Then, eight days later, Reale flashed her ability to create. To streak up the left sideline. Advertisement To send an aggressive cross from just outside the 18-yard box that found the foot of Sarah Schupansky and then the back of the Washington Spirit's net. The offensive side of her skill set that couldn't always materialize at center back, but it became a necessary layer of her adjustment. And when all of that combined together, a national team call-up followed.
Irish Independent
19-06-2025
- Politics
- Irish Independent
Fiery backlash as Limerick Bonfire Festival plan goes up in smoke
The proposal, brought forward by Cllr Sarah Beasley, aims to organise a 'well-managed bonfire event where the community can come together in a safe and controlled environment, with participation from local small businesses, food trucks, and family-friendly activities.' According to the Rhebogue councillor, the current unregulated bonfires 'involve an accumulation of a wide range of materials, often including furniture with metal frames, hazardous gases, and glass, all of which pose serious safety and pollution risks,' said Cllr Beasley. She also pointed to the large costs related to wild bonfires. 'Recent figures estimate the cost at €33,000 this year, and that does not include the repair of the greens,' she stated. The motion was seconded by Labour's Pádraigh Reale, who supported the idea of developing a "mini-festival" to preserve the Bealtaine traditions. 'I don't see any reason why a conversation can't be opened around this and how we can look as a local authority to support this motion and to try and bring something forward,' Cllr Reale added. However, the motion drew strong criticism from other councillors. Cllr Olivia O'Sullivan was particularly vocal in her opposition: 'We're asking for so much trouble. I can't understand why we want to encourage more people to get involved in what is a dangerous activity. We're talking about behaviour that is already illegal.' Cllr Sarah Kiley echoed her concerns: 'In Kennedy Park, people were trapped in their homes because of black plumes of smoke. Fire brigades were 'absolutely battered' when responding,' she added, 'it beggars belief.' 'I understand, Councillor Beasley, you're coming from a place of nostalgia and wanting to fix the issue but this certainly isn't the way.' Anne Rizzo, acting senior executive officer of Community Development at Limerick City and County Council responded, yet the motion itself was not passed. 'Having regard to climate and fire safety considerations, the Community Development section will explore the possibility of developing an annual community bumper event as an alternative to the current practice of multiple often unregulated fires during the May tradition,' Ms Rizzo stated. In addition, it was suggested by Cllr Reale that Limerick Council introduce a 'targeted hazardous litter collection initiative next year in the week leading up to the May Eve bonfire in identified areas to encourage families and households to dispose of their hazardous waste/materials in a safe manner.' This motion was supported by Cllr Kiely and Cllr O'Sullivan as 'very constructive.'
Boston Globe
18-06-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Hingham's Lilly Reale named to national women's soccer team training camp roster
Reale, alongside Jordyn Bugg, Izzy Rodriguez, and Sam Meza, is one of four American players receiving their first call-up to the senior national team. In her rookie season with Gotham, Reale has one goal and one assist and has started 11 of New York's 12 league matches. She was named to the NWSL Best XI of the Month for April. Advertisement Reale played two years at Hingham High School before leaving the school team in favor of playing club for South Shore Select, where she played with Reale played four years at UCLA, where she won the 2022 NCAA title and was twice named a semifinalist for the Hermann Trophy, awarded to the nation's top player. At the conclusion of her college career, Reale signed a three-year contract with Gotham FC in January. Her younger sister, Sophie, played two seasons at UCLA before transferring to Boston College this offseason. Emma Healy can be reached at
Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Utah State Board of Education to consider resolution tying DEI programs to communist goals
The Utah State Board of Education building is pictured on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. (McKenzie Romero/Utah News Dispatch) Are diversity, equity and inclusion programs explicitly 'attempting to achieve the Soviet Communist goal of actual equality'? That will be part of a resolution the Utah State Board of Education is scheduled to discuss, and perhaps adopt, on Thursday. Five Republican board members signed on to back a proposed resolution to remove DEI from Utah schools — Christina Boggess of Taylorsville, Cole Kelley of Vineyard, Joann Brinton of St. George, Rod Hall of Syracuse, and Emily Green of Cedar City — supporting a draft containing Trump Administration orders and a lot of Soviet Union terminology. 'The Utah State Board of Education directs its employees and subsequent staff, instructional and administrative personnel to immediately disband any and all 'Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Practices;'' the proposal reads. 'Moreover, the agency shall immediately disband and rescind all associated documents, training, programs, curriculum and policies.' SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX The state school board still doesn't have an official statement on the resolution since the board hasn't discussed it yet, a communications person for the board said, and Boggess, who is coordinating the effort, didn't reply to a request for comment on Tuesday. The move stirred concerns from Utahns who oppose more DEI regulation in the state's education system. Especially, since there's already a Utah law in place that tightly restricts deploying DEI programs. When HB261 became law in the summer of 2024, all public institutions in Utah banned programs that 'promote differential treatment' and may exclude some based on their race, color, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, religion or gender identity. As anti-DEI law takes effect, students and staffers share 'great sense of loss' 'Of all of the anti-DEI things I've read in politics and in policy, this is the most far reaching and the most frightening,' Sarah Reale, one of two Democrats among the 15 state school board members, said on Tuesday. Citing the recent implementation of that anti-DEI policy, Reale questioned the necessity of such a resolution when Utah schools have spent the last year making substantial cuts to diversity programs and are already in compliance with new federal orders prohibiting DEI. 'We have tons of work to do — helping students' math scores improve, helping find ways to provide teachers with professional development opportunities, finding ways to support parents in the schools.' Reale said. 'So to spend time on something that, to me, is blatantly just inciting fear, and that doesn't help our teachers or students in their learning environment (…) is embarrassing. The resolution is embarrassing.' Utah State Board of Education resolutions aren't binding, they are just approved statements that express the opinion of the board's majority. However, the draft resolution cites a Utah Constitution provision that gives the board control and supervision powers over public schools and programs designated by the Legislature. However, Reale said, whether or not the resolution is enforceable isn't the main issue. 'It's the principle, it's the tone, it's the message that it sends that's hurtful and scary,' she said. Approving these kinds of resolutions, 'feels very Big Brother, very big government,' which, she added, isn't the role of the state school board. The resolution explains how a series of words and programs used in the Soviet Union may relate to DEI efforts — 'коренизация (korenizatsiya), which maps to 'inclusion,' and разнообразие (raznoobrazsiya), which means 'diversity,' in the sense meant by Lenin who described it as 'diversity in form to arrive at unity in content.' DEI at its core is 1920s Soviet Union policy for using ethnic minorities to advance the installation of Communism,' the five board members wrote in the resolution. The authors also criticized the terms 'identity politics' and 'inclusion,' which they define as 'programs, processes or implemented ideas that emphasize including, affirming and protecting counter-hegemonic perspectives at the expense of universal and objective truth.' Those correlations, Reale said, are false analogies. 'You cannot say that words in different languages mean the same thing and cross over with the same definition in English,' she said. 'It feels very McCarthyism. It screams Red Scare. It's frightening language.' The resolution also has DEI as a synonym of Critical Race Theory, an academic discipline examining racial disparities in the country, which has existed for decades but became a hot culture war debate during Trump's first term. 'DEI is not equal to CRT,' Reale said. 'CRT is not found in any of our schools. We have looked and reviewed for anything that could be even a glimmer of CRT taught in our schools in Utah. They don't exist. SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE
