NWSL Awards: Snubs and Surprises, plus a preview going into the NWSL semifinal round

The Late Sub with Claire Watkins

Just Women’s Sports

Sports

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

On todays episode, Claire takes a deep dive into the NWSL end of season awards, comparing her ballot with the announced finalists and giving her final picks in a very deep year with many impressive performances. Then, she previews the blockbuster semifinal matchups between the NWSL’s top four, and gives her picks for who will be battling it out in Kansas City for a championship.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I really thought both Rose Lavelle and Hina Sagita were fantastic this year.
0:04.0	This is another one where you say feels kind of notable that there's no Gotham player here.
0:09.0	I think that the Gotham midfield, and this was reflected in my best 11, front to back was very good.
0:14.0	And that is interesting because it hasn't really been a great year for defenses.
0:18.0	It hasn't really been a great year for defensive midfields. And I felt like Gotham was one of the most balanced possible options. And I actually, I had Neely Martin
0:26.6	on my best 11 for that reason because I wanted to put a defensive midfielder in there.
0:34.6	Hello everybody and welcome to today's edition of the Late Sub. I am your host Claire Watkins.
0:39.3	We're on the end of USL train and it is still going. We're going to talk through all of the end of season award nominations.
0:45.3	We're going to compare my ballot to what the consensus came to. I'm going to give you my final list and who I am voting for for all of the major end of season awards because it was an incredible year for individual performances. And then we're going to do a quick preview
0:57.9	of each individual NWSL semi-final. I'm going to give my predictions as poor as they might be.
1:02.4	So tune in for that. And then yeah, we're just going to get ready for a crazy week next week at
1:06.6	NWSL Championship. There's a lot to jump into. Let's dig in. All right. So today seemed like the day.
1:12.5	We're taking kind of a deep breath in between the quarterfinal and the semi-final round of the
1:16.1	NWSL postseason. It's going to be all eyes towards championship next weekend. So what we're
1:21.1	going to do now is we're actually going to break down the individual NWSL award finalists.
1:26.6	I think this is something that other people have done as well,
1:28.3	but I always think this is really fun. It's also nice for me because I did actually have a media
1:32.9	vote. I do actually have had that for a number of years as a member of the NWSL Media Association.
1:38.2	Quickly to kind of talk about the context of which these individual awards, we get to this
1:42.0	finalist group and also what this means for the
1:44.5	percentages for the final tally. Some leagues and people who have familiarity with other
1:50.1	American sports leagues or sports league in general know that sometimes there's a media award
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Just Women’s Sports, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Just Women’s Sports and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.