USWNT and University of North Carolina player Cat Reddick is scheduled to be the first guest of the New Year on America's #1 Soccer Radio Show "Inside Soccer." Cat is expected to be on today's show sometime after 4:05 PM PT (7:05 PM ET) and you can call 858-560-1130 if you want to ask Cat a question on the air. While you are waiting on hold you will be able to listen to the show live. You can also call the station and leave your number if you don't want to wait on hold and they will call you back and put you on the air. As usual today's program will be on San Diego radio station KSDO 1130 AM from 4 - 6 PM PT (7 - 9 PM ET). Here's the information about how you can listen to today's program using your computer: KSDO Listen Live Since Cat has a lot of fans who post in the Courage Forum and because messages from Hege Riise and Oddball#34 are also going to be read on the air today, I thought it would be appropriate to mention today's show here in the Courage Forum. If someone wants to post this information anywhere else, please feel free to do so.
Cat is on the air right now! She was just asked if she would consider coming out early to play in the WUSA next season and she responded by saying that she definitely had thought about coming out early, but plans on staying to play her senior year at UNC. BTW - it sounds like she prefers to be called Catherine.
I was just on the air with Catherine and had a chance to ask her who the toughest foreign striker is that she has played against and her reply was Charmaine Hooper. I also found out that she scored her first international goal against Norway on St. Patrick's Day.
I did a quick check on the internet and sure enough the two Irish co-hosts, Brian Quinn and Brian Halliday were correct. Here's what I found: USA - Norway 3-4 (1-1) Friendly in Quarteira, Portugal, 17.03.2001 (for 5th place in Algarve Cup) 0-1 Ragnhild Gulbrandsen (20) 1-1 own goal (24) 2-1 Laura Scott (46) 3-1 Kathryn Reddich (56) 3-2 Ragnhild Gulbrandsen (75) 3-3 Ragnhild Gulbrandsen (84) 3-4 Anne Tønnessen (87) Norway: Bente Nordby - Bente Kvitland, Gøril Kringen, Anne Tønnessen, Henriette Viker (Brit Sandaune from 46) - Unni Lehn (Anita Rapp from 88), Solveig Gulbrandsen, Margunn Haugenes (Hege Riise from 65) - Dagny Mellgren, Ragnhild Gulbrandsen, Linda Ørmen (Christine Bøe Jensen from 80). 2001 Norwegian Women's National Team
i couldnt get the damn thing to work. what did she talk about? did they ask her about SCU or being a friend/foe of aly wagner?
Oddball's Message Read On the Air Right before the interview with Kathryn Reddick, co-host Brian Halliday made the following comments: "When I arrived back home last week I received an e-mail from a woman who lives in Raleigh, North Carolina and volunteers for the Carolina Courage. She is the craziest Courage fan and she has a very strange nickname "Oddball." She heard about last week's interview with Brad Friedel and said that she would like to have an autographed picture of Brad and those of us on "Inside Soccer" are of course going to be able to do this for her." Congratulations Oddball#34!!
Sorry to hear that you had problems listening to the interview. I'll go back and review my tape of the interview and give you some excerpts from Kathryn's comments about the College Cup.
Here's an excerpt from the first part of today's interview: Brian Quinn: Tell us about your experience this year in college playing for the University of North Carolina. You lost in the semi-finals to .... was it to Portland? Kathryn Reddick: It was to Santa Clara. BQ: How was that? KR: How was it? It was heartbreaking. You always want to win, but it was a fun to play - you had two great teams with 11 or more great players on both sides......it was fun to play in such a great game with a great crowd. The atmosphere was incredible. Texas did a great job hosting.
Reddick On Leaving College Early BQ: Kathryn, you are a junior now at UNC. Have you considered coming out early to put yourself in the draft for the WUSA or are you going to play your senior year and then come out for the draft? KR: I have definitely thought about coming out early. A lot of people have been telling me that I could and that it would be a good idea, but to me college only lasts four years. You can always go back, but I can't play another year of soccer. Looking at my senior season and my friends there and the coach I don't think I could miss it. It will be too much fun and I think I want to stay. BQ: Kathryn I don't know if I subscribe to what you say about college taking only four years because I think that my son is going to take 6 or 7 years. (laughter from Quinn, Halliday, and Reddick)
First Caller Brian Halliday: Kathryn we have a caller, one of our regular callers who calls us from all around the place.....last time that she called us she was in South Dakota....we've got Celina on the line....where are you calling from today? Celina: Athens, Georgia. BH: Athens, Georgia! KR: Alright!! Go Dawgs!! Celina: How did it feel to play in the College Cup? KR: It was awesome!! Playing in the College Cup is incredible...it is so much fun because you are playing against teammates from the National Team like Aly Wagner, but you are playing for your school. And that to me is one of the most fun experiences ever. I need to stop now if I want to avoid getting Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, but if there is interest I will post a few more excerpts over the next several days.
thanks. im upset with Reddicks "go dawgs" as i am the biggest FSU fan. but we'll kick some major butt next year....
Thank you!, Nordby1 for the GREAT transcripts. Please do post more when you are able. I tried to connect, but KSDO said that they were not allowing it or something to that extent when I tried. Reading the transcripts so far has certainly alleviated some of that Thank you Nordby1!
Re: Thank you!, Thanks again for the positive feedback. That is really too bad that everyone was having so much trouble listening to today's program using their computers. I have never even attempted to listen to KSDO using my computer so I'm not sure what sort of problems you are having. In any event I will pass this information along to Brian Halliday.
I too, would like to add my thanks. I live in a rural area, and unfortunately, when the time changed I lost the radio signal. I also have a Macintosh computer, which rules out online listening. Thank you for all the recaps nordby1! I have been dropping by the Courage forum more often because of your recaps, and have seen some other threads that interested me.
Re: Re: Thank you!, When you pass along the info to Halliday, please let him know that this San Diego-born-now-a Bay State resident REALLY appreciates all of the info and quality of "Inside Soccer." It really brings SD back to the heart, and the heart connection is there.... so it's soooo great to hear "Inside Soccer" irregardless of who is the guest or the topic. I offer Halliday and Quinn my utmost respect and apprecation. Nordby1, please feel free to quote that directly. Thank you so much! PoetSong- who is THRILLED her Stillers won! Cleveland sucks!
Sorry to hear that you no longer receive the KSDO signal where you live. I was going to suggest that you, me, and Tsunami divide up the task of providing transcripts, but it looks like it will now be up to just Tsunami and I unless someone else can give us some help. BTW - does this mean that the only time you get to listen to the show these days is when you are one of the in-studio guests?
Re: Thank you!, I'll be sure to forward your comments along to the two Irish Brians. This is the sort of feedback that I know they will appreciate.
What is the current WUSA rule wrt "coming out early." Can you make yourself available for the draft as long as you are 21 years old, even if you aren't a senior in college during the year of the draft?
Reddick's Nickname? Here's a question for some of the UNC fans out there. Did Reddick get tagged with the nickname "Cat" while she has been at UNC or did she already have this nickname when she first arrived at Chapel Hill?
I'm not sure if there's an age restriction. Juniors, even sophs now, declare for the NFL. But then again, we're talking about million-dollar packages in the NFL. As a collegian, what has Reddick accomplished? Won an NCAA championship. Won a place in the WNT. What's left? Another championship perhaps? I don't think Anson will miss her. They didn't suffer badly when she was with the nats. And he could use her scholarship. Sure she'll earn some dough playing pro. OTOH, college is a special environment, she's with a special group of people, & she gets a free ride. Those, among other things, you trade off to turn pro.
Catherine Reddick Her actual name is Catherine, not Kathryn. http://tarheelblue.ocsn.com/sports/w-soccer/unc-w-soccer-body.html As for her nickname... will check the media guide for her Freshman year. Unlike "Train" for Alyssa Ramsey, "Cat" was not generated by that rowdy bunch of UNC fans known as the Heeligans.
Re: Catherine Reddick Thanks for that letting me know this so I won't continue to spell her name incorrectly. If you notice, at the beginning of this thread I spelled her name Catherine and then switched to Kathryn when I saw it spelled that way on the Norwegian Women's Soccer site.
WUSA Age Requirement Under the CBA of the previous two seasons there was some minimum age requirement for players who wanted to be eligible for the draft before they actually graduated. I went looking for some of the old posts about this, but I believe that they were casualties of all of the BS crashes and system restorations that took place last year.