Moultrie

Citizens were penning letters to the editor to defend their library during last week’s National Library – from Moultrie, Georgia to East Aurora, New York.

Parsons had it at Portland, where he won three trophies in his final season with a team that had 38-year-old Christine Sinclair and 36-year-old Becky Sauerbrunn play alongside 16-year-old Olivia Moultrie.

But perhaps his biggest success there was in developing teenage players such as Olivia Moultrie, Ellie Carpenter and Sophia Smith at a time when teens were rare in the NWSL.

That was news to Olivia Moultrie and her family.

At 13, the same age Whitham is now, Moultrie, now 18, signed with the Wasserman Media Group, U.S. soccer’s most powerful agency, then accepted a multiyear endorsement deal with Nike and an offer to train with the NWSL’s Portland Thorns, moving with her parents and two younger sisters to Oregon for what she thought would be the start of a professional career.