CT United Wins National 3-on-3 Soccer Tournament

MANCHESTER, CT — The U-11 CT United girls soccer team captured the ESPN Wide World of Sports 3v3 National Championship on Monday in Orlando, FL.

CT United went undefeated throughout the three-day tournament, winning eight games and outscoring its opponents 70-12.

After emerging from pool play to qualify for the Gold Division, CT United advanced to the Finals with a 8-1 win in the semifinals against a team representing Complete Game Soccer club from Maryland.

The final game was against North Texas (S.W.A.T) and CT United was a 5-1 winner.

The team competed against teams from Texas, North Carolina, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, and Maryland. The event is the culmination of 3v3 tournaments around the country.

Local girls on the team consisted of Se-Hanna Alyson Mars (a fifth-grader at Odyssey Community School in Manchester), Maggie Bryn Rollins (a fifth-grader at Stafford Elementary School), Swathi Ganesh (a fifth-grader at Gov. William Pitkin Elementary School in East Hartford), Isabella Deronsle (a fifth-grader at Lake Street School in Vernon), Cali-Dean Craft (a fourth-grader at Center Road School in Vernon), and Emma Gregorski (a fourth-grader at Nayaug Elementary School in Glastonbury).

All six players are members of the Oakwood Soccer Club in Glastonbury.

Coaching CT United for the tourney were Corey Craft (Oakwood Assistant Coach, Vernon Soccer Coach, and a Connecticut State Trooper) and C.J. Craft (seventh-grader at Vernon Center Middle School who played on the 2004 Oakwood team).

Photo Courtesy of CT United