Woods and Stone Named to USA Field Hockey U-21 Team

The University of Louisville's Taylor Stone and Nicole Woods have been selected to USA Field Hockey's Under 21 team roster as announced by the organization on Friday.

This will mark the second season on the U-21 USWNT team for Woods who was also selected in 2016. The midfielder/forward from Beverly, Mass., was a member of the World Cup team which finished eighth in the 2016 competition in Santiago, Chile. Prior that, she helped the team to a silver medal in the 2016 Junior Pan American Championship. Woods finished her junior season at Louisville with five goals and 10 assists while earning all-ACC honors for the second straight season.

Stone, a back from Herndon, Va., made the move to the U-21USWNT team after being selected to the U-19 team in 2016 and was named to the Germany Tour roster last spring. She is a two-year starter for the Cardinals and scored four goals while helping Louisville's defense to an ACC-best seven shutouts in 2016.

The U.S. U-21 Women's National Team has two training camps scheduled for 2017. The first will happen February 11-15, 2017 at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif. Here the U-21 USWNT will practice as well as scrimmage the U.S. Women's National Team. The second training camp weekend will take place March 17-19, 2017 at Duke University in Durham, N.C.

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