ATLANTA, Ga. — Ellie Fife of the University of Michigan women’s soccer team has been named to the 42-player roster for the first-ever Women’s College Talent ID Camp, U.S. Soccer announced on Monday afternoon (June 16).

The camp is the first step in building the U.S. Youth National Teams’ scouting strategy of increasing programming opportunities for high-potential college players. The Talent ID Camp, hosted at McCurry Park in Atlanta from June 18-22, has the goal of expanding the Under-18, U19, and U20 Women’s National Team player pools.

An Ann Arbor native, Fife has picked up three previous invites to U.S. Talent ID Camps, most recently in 2022. She transferred from Vanderbilt for the upcoming 2025 season, appearing in seven contests for the Commodores and was named to the 2024 SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll.

She was ranked as the 32nd best player in the United States by Prep Soccer in 2024 while playing club soccer for the Michigan Hawks.

ATLANTA – Mississippi State junior Zoe Main and freshman Adia Symmonds are among the 42 players called up to U.S. Soccer’s Women’s College Talent ID Camp set to begin on Wednesday.
 
The first-of-its-kind camp will be held June 18-22 in Atlanta, Georgia, and is part of the growing U.S. Youth National Teams’ scouting strategy with the objective of increasing programming opportunities for college-specific players with high potential. Mississippi State is one of 11 colleges with multiple players represented, and only two schools had three.
 
Main, a Second Team All-SEC selection last season, ranked third on the team in goals in 2024 and fourth in points. Three of her goals were game-winners and two came in the NCAA Tournament. Main was among the player pool for the provisional roster for the U.S. U-23 Women’s National Team squad that played friendlies in Germany earlier this month. Most recently, she played in The Soccer Tournament with Austin Rise FC, scoring the target-score-time goal in the squad’s 5-0 win over Angel City FC.
 
Symmonds, who has previously trained with English side Arsenal’s U-21 squad, enrolled early for the spring semester in Starkville. She played at Sunlake High School in Florida where she tallied 45 goals and 37 assists in three seasons. On the club circuit, she was and ECNL First Team All-Southeast Conference selection in 2023 with Florida Premier FC which went on to win the ECNL Championship in 2024. In 2022, she was tabbed to the U.S. Soccer Olympic Development Program National Training Camp.
 
The camp will take place at McCurry Park in Atlanta with 41 players selected from the 2005, 2006 and 2007 birth years, and one having been born in 2008. The five-day camp will consist of three training sessions and two intrasquad matches. The overall pool of 42 players will be divided into two teams for camp.
 
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Former Boise State and Washington Huskies head coach Chris Petersen had some interesting takes on the current state of college football. NIL and the transfer portal. While Peterson is no longer the head coach, he still holds an advisory role with the Washington Huskies, which requires him to address NIL and transfer portal issues within the program. Petersen seemed to understand that NIL is suitable for the players and acknowledged that coaches are on board with it. His main problems lie in the transfer portal and tampering issues that appear to be rampant in college football.

” But there’s no question, you know, the NIL, I think most people in the game-the coaches, the players, the admin-they get the NIL. I think everybody’s on board with that. There’s no question it’s the transfer portal, and the tampering, and a player going to five schools in five years, and all of that, and you’re right. It’s not better for the kids in the long run. There’s just no real structure to it. And I will tell you, not on the sidelines, my whole heart and soul are into the greater good of college football. And it’s just like I worry.  I talk to many fans, like you, who are getting increasingly fed up with the college game.”Former college coach Chris Petersen

South Carolina quarterback LaNorris Sellers is expected to be one of the top signal-callers in the nation in 2025, and he had a lucrative offer to take his talents elsewhere.

Sellers’ father, Norris, told The Athletic’s Bruce Feldman that the redshirt sophomore once received an NIL contract offer worth $8 million over two years to transfer to another school, but he turned it down.

“He was offered all kinds of crazy numbers,” Norris said. “I told him he could say, I’m gonna stay or I’m gonna go. By my two cents: It was to get into college on a scholarship, play ball, get our degree and go on about our business. This NIL deal came later. We didn’t come here to make money. We came here to get our education, play ball, and with schools calling, we’re not gonna jump ship because they’re offering more than what we’re getting. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

In his first season as a full-time starter in 2024, Sellers threw for 2,534 yards, 18 touchdowns and seven interceptions while adding 674 rushing yards and seven more scores. He won SEC Freshman of the Year honors, and B/R’s Brent Sobleski projected him to be selected No. 1 overall in the 2026 NFL draft.

Sellers’ father acknowledged that the NIL offers can be tough to turn down, but there was never an indication that he would leave the Gamecocks.

“You’re 19,” Norris added. “You don’t need ($8 million). You’re in a great spot. There were several talks, but it never really crossed his mind (to leave). It’s a challenge with colleges offering younger guys that kind of money. Who’s gonna say no to $8 million for two years? They’re gonna be swayed if you don’t have the right people in your corner.”