Gamecocks Sign Maddy Elston From Manchester City’s Academy

COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina girls’s soccer head coach Shelley Smith has introduced the addition of defender Maddy Elston (Manchester, England/Manchester Metropolis WSL Academy) to the category that can be a part of the Gamecocks within the fall for the 2022 season.

Elston turns into the Gamecock’s third English defender to affix this system in recent times, following within the footsteps of present FA Girls’s Tremendous League gamers Anna Patten and Grace Fisk. She has performed for the Manchester Metropolis Girls’s RTC Academy since 2014, the place she is presently a member of its Improvement Squad (WSL Academy). She has began and performed in 21 matches, greater than anybody else on the squad. She additionally tallied a objective for Metropolis.

She was a group captain for Man Metropolis’s U14, 16, and 21 groups. Elston helped the Sky Blues seize the Academy League Cup through the 2019-20 season. She additionally was part of the squad that received the Southampton Cup as a member of the U16 squad in 2016. Off the pitch, she was additionally concerned in a number of different sports activities together with badminton, handball, netball, and monitor & subject.

South Carolina opens its season at residence on August 18 towards defending Nationwide Champion Florida State at 7 p.m. Season tickets are on sale now for less than $25 for adults and $10 for youth (17 and underneath). Followers may also improve their season tickets to incorporate this yr’s limited-edition Gamecock Soccer Scarf for a further $10. To buy season tickets, go to: https://fevo.me/soccer22.

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