SANTA CLARA, Calif.  (February 11, 2009)- FC Gold Pride, Bay Area franchise of Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS) has extended invitations to 10 players to join the Pride’s pre-season training camp, which opens on March 1.

FC Gold Pride saw a large turnout for its open tryouts held this past weekend in Cupertino, CA. Hopefuls from across the country traveled to the Bay Area in pursuit of the ultimate dream, becoming a WPS player. At the completion of the two-day tryout, FC Gold Pride Head Coach Albertin Montoya and his staff opted to extend invitations for training camp to ten players who are not currently on the Pride roster. Eight of the ten players invited to training camp were selected from the team tryout. Among those receiving an invitation is one of US Soccer’s greatest goal scorers, Tiffeny Milbrett.

From the WPS Allocation, WPS International Draft, WPS General Draft and WPS Draft, FC Gold Pride currently holds the rights to 23 players. WPS teams are allowed to call 28 players into training camp. The absence of four Pride players from the start of training camp will allow Montoya to bring in additional prospective players for pre-season training. Pride goalkeeper Nicole Barnhart, defender Rachel Buehler and midfielder Tina DiMartino will be in Portugal with the US Women’s National Team as they aim to capture the country’s fifth consecutive Algarve Cup championship. Striker, Christine Sinclair will lead her native country to Rome, where Canada will defend its title at the Cyprus Cup. All players are expected to return to camp by March 14.

Montoya and the FC Gold Pride coaching staff are now tasked with the difficult job of whittling down the roster from 28 to 18 before the start of the Inaugural WPS Season.

Players invited to FC Gold Pride Pre-Season Training Camp:

PLAYER	POSITION	HOMETOWN	COLLEGE	CLUB
Kristen Graczyk	F/M	Albuquerque, NM	University of Connecticut	SoccerPlus CT
Katie Hultin	GK	Denver, CO	Washington State	Seattle Sounders
Lindsay Massengale	M/D	Pocatello, ID	Clemson	California Storm
Dulce Meza	M/D	Watsonville, CA	Cabrillo College	Monterey Blues
Meagan McCray	GK	Novato, CA	Santa Clara University	Sonoma Sol
Tiffeny Milbrett	F	Portland, OR	University of Portland	Whitecaps FC
Elizabeth Remy	F/M	Norman, OK	Wake Forest
Joslyn Slovek	GK	Playa del Rey, CA	Loyola Marymount
Leah Tapscott	M/D	Atherton, CA	Stanford
Kimberly Yokers	M	Oakland, CA	California	California Storm

FC Gold Pride will kick off the 2009 WPS season on April 5th at home against the Boston Breakers at Buck Shaw Stadium on the campus of Santa Clara University.  Season tickets, starting at only $100 for 10 regular season games are on sale now.  Call (408) 541-3511 or log on to fcgoldpride.com to reserve your seats.