WPS is proud to announce that FC Gold Pride's Kristen Graczyk will be making a player appearance in Denver, Colorado. Graczyk goes into her second season with the Pride with the only member to have played in all 20 games of the Pride's inaugural season. This year she has started and played midfield regularly for the team. Before the Pride, Graczyk was the assistant coach for the University of New Mexico's Soccer Team, and previous to that, had a successful college soccer career at the University of Connecticut, leading the Huskies as top goal scorer for all four years.

Colorado Fusion Soccer Club is one of sixteen exclusive clubs across the nation selected to host a WPS Camp this summer. From July 5th to 9th, the camp will be held in Crestmoor Park in Denver, Colorado, and is open to all other clubs and players in the area.

“Colorado Fusion is excited to partner with WPS for the second straight year. The League has been a welcome addition to the national soccer community,” said Executive Director Jeff Park. “Our 2009 camp was a tremendous success, and we know we’ll have another great result this summer.”

The Colorado Fusion was founded in 2006 after a merger between Denver Soccer Club and Aurora Soccer Club and play in the Colorado Youth Soccer League. They have a total of 3500 players (of which 1800 are girls U4 – U18). Colorado Fusion was the first host partner club in the USA to schedule a WPS Camp in 2009, with 55 players attending and an appearance from Lakewood, Colorado native Miram Dalmy of the Chicago Red Stars.

Three words define the Colorado Fusion Soccer Club: passion, commitment, and excellence. To accomplish this motto, the club feels that it must make available superior resources and deliver cutting edge programming that provides players and staff the challenge and the opportunity to reach their potential. Partnering to host a WPS Camp helps in meeting this goal, providing a dynamic and challenging highlighted by world class training methods and exercises for the female player at any age.

Registration is now open for the WPS Camp, hosted by Colorado Fusion from July 5 to July 9. Visit www.WPSCamps.com, or contact Jeff Park at Jeff.Park@coloradofusion.org 


About Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS)
Headquartered in San Francisco, Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS) is the world’s premier soccer league for women with eight teams across the United States featuring the best players from around the world. WPS completed its inaugural season in August 2009 as Sky Blue FC of New Jersey became the first-ever WPS Champions. In 2010, eight teams will each play 24-game schedules from April 10-September 12 including six original WPS teams – Boston Breakers, Chicago Red Stars, FC Gold Pride (Bay Area), Saint Louis Athletica, Sky Blue FC (NJ/NY) and Washington Freedom – and two expansion teams Atlanta Beat and Philadelphia Independence. For more information, visit the WPS official website at www.womensprosoccer.com or follow all the news at www.twitter.com/womensprosoccer.

About Colorado Fusion Soccer Club
The mission of Colorado Fusion Soccer Club is to provide the youth of their community the benefits of a team sport that develops character and sportsmanship, fosters enjoyment and encourages each individual soccer player to achieve his/her highest level on and off the soccer field. The club will host the Kelvin Norman Memorial Soccer Tournament from June 4-6 at Aurora Sports Park. For more information, visit www.coloradofusion.org or email brenda.house@coloradofusion.org