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	EMAIL WOMENSOC@aol.com
WHO WE ARE

My name is Roger Le Grove Rogers. I was the manager and head of delegation of the U.S.Women's Team from its beginning in international competition in 1985, up to and including winning the first FIFA Women's World Championship in China in 1991.

I am just finishing writing a book about my six years with the team, and work as a writer, lecturer and consultant with particular emphasis on the role of women in sport. Recent presentations include Mental Training of Athletes: Are Differences Seen When Training Male and Female Athletes? given at the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Education at the World Sports Coach Summit IV held in Tokyo and Nagano, Japan; and Understanding Gender Differences When Coaching Athletes given as part of a symposium Knowledge About Gender Differences: Consequences For Coaching given at the 8th. World Congress of Sport Psychology in Lisbon, Portugal. A medical biochemist by training, my languages are English, German, French and Chinese and I have been a club, state and college coach of both men and women

Your input about women's soccer is requested. Please send us current news and information about players, staff, teams and the game.

Lauren Gregg, who has been an Assistant Coach of the U.S. Women's National Team since 1989, and was the Head Women's Coach at the University of Virginia until last year will answer questions ranging from training tips, to looking for the right college, to teaching dribbling skills, to keeping non-elite players properly motivated (just some of the requests received by us in the last few months) as well as keeping us updated about the U.S. National Team.

Sports Medicine Corner

LeRoi B. Gardner, Jr., M.D. of the Arthroscopy & Sports Medicine Clinic in San Jose, California will answer questions received about women's soccer injuries, treatments, and problems, as well as keeping us properly informed about aspects of fitness, training and injury prevention.
He has been head physician for the U.S. Women's National Team since 1987 (including the World Championship game in 1991) and is known throughout the women's soccer world as "Dr. Barney Gardner." Other Women's National Teams have often come to him for help and advice( and sometimes a stitching up!) both in Asia and Europe while on tour with the U.S. Women's Team.
A Diplomate of the American board of Orthopedic Surgery, and Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery he has been an Orthopedic Consultant to the U.S. Ski Team since 1984, and Team Physician and Orthopedic Consultant at West Valley College since 1968, Attending Physician, U.S. Men's National Soccer Team since 1988, Chief Sports Medicine Officer, U.S. Soccer World Cup, Stanford Venue, and Attending Physician, Under-16 Men's National Team at Montique, France in 1995.