{"id":326231,"date":"2025-12-02T15:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/326231\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T15:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:13:07","slug":"fresh-faces-familiar-winning-ways-as-the-uswnt-closes-out-a-year-of-progress-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/326231\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh faces, familiar winning ways as the USWNT closes out a year of progress in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hayes brings back competitive nature<\/p>\n<p>One of the most important parts of Hayes\u2019 tenure thus far is the way she has brought a level of competitiveness back to the squad. Places are no longer guaranteed based on notoriety; they have to be earned on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Among her first moves as USWNT boss was excluding someone like Alex Morgan from the Olympic roster for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/olympic-games\/paris-2024\" data-tracking-payload=\"{&quot;implementation_provider&quot;:&quot;sed&quot;,&quot;content_geography&quot;:&quot;AF,AX,AL,DZ,AS,AD,AO,AI,AQ,AG,AR,AM,AW,AU,AT,AZ,BS,BH,BD,BB,BY,BE,BZ,BJ,BM,BT,BO,BQ,BA,BW,BV,BR,IO,UM,VG,VI,BN,BG,BF,BI,KH,CM,CA,CV,KY,CF,TD,CL,CN,CX,CC,CO,KM,CG,CD,CK,CR,HR,CU,CW,CY,CZ,DK,DJ,DM,DO,EC,EG,SV,GQ,ER,EE,ET,FK,FO,FJ,FI,FR,GF,PF,TF,GA,GM,GE,DE,GH,GI,GR,GL,GD,GP,GU,GT,GG,GN,GW,GY,HT,HM,VA,HN,HK,HU,IS,IN,ID,CI,IR,IQ,IE,IM,IL,IT,JM,JP,JE,JO,KZ,KE,KI,KW,KG,LA,LV,LB,LS,LR,LY,LI,LT,LU,MO,MK,MG,MW,MY,MV,ML,MT,MH,MQ,MR,MU,YT,MX,FM,MD,MC,MN,ME,MS,MA,MZ,MM,NA,NR,NP,NL,NC,NZ,NI,NE,NG,NU,NF,KP,MP,NO,OM,PK,PW,PS,PA,PG,PY,PE,PH,PN,PL,PT,PR,QA,RE,RO,RU,RW,BL,SH,KN,LC,MF,PM,VC,WS,SM,ST,SA,SN,RS,SC,SL,SG,SX,SK,SI,SB,SO,ZA,GS,KR,SS,ES,LK,SD,SR,SJ,SZ,SE,CH,SY,TW,TJ,TZ,TH,TL,TG,TK,TO,TT,TN,TR,TM,TC,TV,UG,UA,AE,GB,US,UY,UZ,VU,VE,VN,WF,EH,YE,ZM,ZW,XK&quot;,&quot;content_id&quot;:&quot;8c07b372-365e-46bd-b7ba-128c024b872a&quot;,&quot;content_release_date_local_utc&quot;:&quot;2025-12-02T15:05:43.238Z&quot;,&quot;content_title&quot;:&quot;Football: Fresh faces, familiar winning ways as the USWNT closes out a year of progress in 2025&quot;,&quot;tag&quot;:&quot;[\\&quot;discipline-football\\&quot;,\\&quot;gender-female\\&quot;,\\&quot;apple-news-all\\&quot;,\\&quot;seo-article\\&quot;,\\&quot;newsclip\\&quot;,\\&quot;noc-us\\&quot;]&quot;,&quot;module_type&quot;:&quot;TextBlock&quot;,&quot;module_title&quot;:&quot;Football: Fresh faces, familiar winning ways as the USWNT closes out a year of progress in 2025&quot;,&quot;section_level_1&quot;:&quot;news&quot;,&quot;section_level_2&quot;:&quot;fresh-faces-familiar-winning-ways-uswnt-2025&quot;,&quot;discipline&quot;:&quot;discipline-football&quot;,&quot;odf_id&quot;:&quot;FBL&quot;,&quot;module_instance&quot;:&quot;Inline&quot;,&quot;module_id&quot;:null}\" data-tracking=\"click\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paris 2024<\/a>. It took guts but it sent a very clear message.<\/p>\n<p>The result? One of the most competitive camp environments in recent memory, according to captain Lindsey Heaps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the most competitive environment that I\u2019ve ever been a part of, and that\u2019s been through years and years and years,\u201d she told reporters recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/soccer\/news\/uswnt-italy-preview-2025-evaluations\/\" data-tracking-payload=\"{&quot;implementation_provider&quot;:&quot;sed&quot;,&quot;content_geography&quot;:&quot;AF,AX,AL,DZ,AS,AD,AO,AI,AQ,AG,AR,AM,AW,AU,AT,AZ,BS,BH,BD,BB,BY,BE,BZ,BJ,BM,BT,BO,BQ,BA,BW,BV,BR,IO,UM,VG,VI,BN,BG,BF,BI,KH,CM,CA,CV,KY,CF,TD,CL,CN,CX,CC,CO,KM,CG,CD,CK,CR,HR,CU,CW,CY,CZ,DK,DJ,DM,DO,EC,EG,SV,GQ,ER,EE,ET,FK,FO,FJ,FI,FR,GF,PF,TF,GA,GM,GE,DE,GH,GI,GR,GL,GD,GP,GU,GT,GG,GN,GW,GY,HT,HM,VA,HN,HK,HU,IS,IN,ID,CI,IR,IQ,IE,IM,IL,IT,JM,JP,JE,JO,KZ,KE,KI,KW,KG,LA,LV,LB,LS,LR,LY,LI,LT,LU,MO,MK,MG,MW,MY,MV,ML,MT,MH,MQ,MR,MU,YT,MX,FM,MD,MC,MN,ME,MS,MA,MZ,MM,NA,NR,NP,NL,NC,NZ,NI,NE,NG,NU,NF,KP,MP,NO,OM,PK,PW,PS,PA,PG,PY,PE,PH,PN,PL,PT,PR,QA,RE,RO,RU,RW,BL,SH,KN,LC,MF,PM,VC,WS,SM,ST,SA,SN,RS,SC,SL,SG,SX,SK,SI,SB,SO,ZA,GS,KR,SS,ES,LK,SD,SR,SJ,SZ,SE,CH,SY,TW,TJ,TZ,TH,TL,TG,TK,TO,TT,TN,TR,TM,TC,TV,UG,UA,AE,GB,US,UY,UZ,VU,VE,VN,WF,EH,YE,ZM,ZW,XK&quot;,&quot;content_id&quot;:&quot;8c07b372-365e-46bd-b7ba-128c024b872a&quot;,&quot;content_release_date_local_utc&quot;:&quot;2025-12-02T15:05:43.238Z&quot;,&quot;content_title&quot;:&quot;Football: Fresh faces, familiar winning ways as the USWNT closes out a year of progress in 2025&quot;,&quot;tag&quot;:&quot;[\\&quot;discipline-football\\&quot;,\\&quot;gender-female\\&quot;,\\&quot;apple-news-all\\&quot;,\\&quot;seo-article\\&quot;,\\&quot;newsclip\\&quot;,\\&quot;noc-us\\&quot;]&quot;,&quot;module_type&quot;:&quot;TextBlock&quot;,&quot;module_title&quot;:&quot;Football: Fresh faces, familiar winning ways as the USWNT closes out a year of progress in 2025&quot;,&quot;section_level_1&quot;:&quot;news&quot;,&quot;section_level_2&quot;:&quot;fresh-faces-familiar-winning-ways-uswnt-2025&quot;,&quot;discipline&quot;:&quot;discipline-football&quot;,&quot;odf_id&quot;:&quot;FBL&quot;,&quot;module_instance&quot;:&quot;Inline&quot;,&quot;module_id&quot;:null}\" data-tracking=\"click\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as cited by CBS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what makes it one of the best teams in the world for so long \u2014 to have that depth, to have these new young players coming through and absolutely killing it\u2026 the balance of experienced and new players is really important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking specifically on Hayes\u2019s impact, Heaps added: \u201cI think she has been absolutely awesome in that [creating a competitive squad] but also giving confidence to everyone to go and do their thing and know that they\u2019re here for a reason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen debuts alone in 2025 only reaffirms this, it is the most in a single calendar year since the start of the U.S. soccer program.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing is ever certain \u2013 everyone will be afforded a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hayes brings back competitive nature One of the most important parts of Hayes\u2019 tenure thus far is the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-326231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}