Oregon freshman soccer player Chardonnay Curran has been called up to the Under-20 U.S. National Women’s Team World Cup training camp.

Curran, a 2017 Campbell High alumna, is one of eight forwards and 24 total players selected who traveled to France for an extended training camp (Feb. 23 to March 7) and two international matches against the Under-20 France Women’s National Team.

Both games will be played at venues hosting the Under-20 Women’s World Cup. The USA will play France on Saturday at Stade de la Rabine in Vannes and Tuesday at Stade Marville in Saint-Malo.

Curran is one of seven players called up who were not on the roster that helped the USA qualify for the World Cup in August during the 2018 CONCACAF Women’s U-20 Championship in Trinidad & Tobago last month.

Curran appeared in all 19 matches and made 14 starts with the Ducks as a freshman. She scored one goal and had two assists.

UW’s Kaupe finding her groove

Washington freshman Nawai Kaupe made the most of her two starts in the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic over the weekend, homering in both of the Huskies’ two wins on Sunday to remain undefeated this season at 18-0.

The No. 1-ranked Washington softball team won 13 of its first 15 games in fewer than seven innings because of the mercy-run rule. Its last three games of the weekend tournament in Palm Springs, Calif., were all decided by four runs or fewer.

Kaupe started at shortstop in a 4-1 win over Wisconsin and was hit by a pitch and scored on an error in the fourth inning. She added a solo homer in the top of the sixth inning to put UW ahead 4-0.

The Huskies turned right around and finished the tournament with a 4-0 shutout of Long Beach State, with Kaupe singling home a run in the first inning before blasting another homer out to right in the third inning for the final run.

The 2017 Maui High alumna, who also stole a base against LBSU, has made six starts this season and upped her average to .304 (7-for-23) with three homers, four RBIs and seven runs scored.

Washington will play its first home games of the season this weekend when it hosts Alabama, Northwestern, Brigham Young and Portland State.

UW junior catcher Rachel Ogasawara, a 2015 Kamehameha graduate, has started 10 games and has four hits, five RBIs and three runs scored. She had the first multi-RBI game of her career in the season opener against Saint Louis.

Kauahi named conference’s top swimmer

Pomona-Pitzer junior Madison Kauahi, a 2015 graduate of Kamehameha, was named the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference athlete of the year in women’s swimming on Saturday.

Kauahi had a hand in five meet records and three conference records set at the SCIAC Championships over the weekend.

Kauahi’s first-place finish in the 50 freestyle in 23.30 seconds was a conference record. She won the 100 freestyle in 50.82 seconds to set a meet record and finished third in the 200 free (1:51.98).

Kauahi also swam the anchor leg on four different Pomona-Pitzer relay teams that finished in first place, including the 200 medley (1:42.33) and 200 freestyle (1:33.79) teams that set conference records.

The 400 freestyle relay team set a meet record with a time of 3:27.29 and the Sagehens also won in the 400 medley (3:47.01).

“I’m really honored because there’s a lot of great swimmers out there,” Kauahi said in a press release. “I couldn’t have done it without my team behind me, helping me get to where I am and pushing me at every single practice.”

Pomona-Pitzer won its second conference title on the women’s side in three years, finishing 151 points ahead of second-place Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.

The Sagehens will compete in the NCAA Championships in Indianapolis, March 21-24.