Marsha Lycan (@mlycan12) / X

Marsha Lycan

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Marsha Lycan

@mlycan12

Proud Alum/Assoc Head Coach @WMTribeWSoc⚽️ Mom to ABC. Mentor & Coach to many. W&M || West Point || Maine❤️. GO TRIBE. GO ARMY. GO PATS. Opinions are my OWN!

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Joined July 2009

Marsha Lycan
@mlycan12
Mar 26, 2025
Now that the NCAA has basically blown up college sports without any planned roll out or vision of an end game….it would be a GREAT time to examine the prospect of total conference realignment for Olympic Sports (where there is NO revenue). I get so tired of hearing that everyone
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Marsha Lycan
@mlycan12
Jul 27, 2025
Tomorrow, thousands of young women will report for the official start of their college soccer preseason, many for the first time. Here are my top pieces of advise for Freshmen: Make a big effort to get to know the upperclassmen. They are not as intimidating as it seems. Some
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Marsha Lycan
@mlycan12
Apr 5, 2025
Soccer is a game of decision making, perhaps more than any other sport. We have no plays to memorize, no timeouts…just 90 min of fluidity and no two moments ever alike. Young players MUST learn to think for themselves by making their own decisions (and mistakes). Sitting on
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Marsha Lycan
@mlycan12
Aug 27, 2024
Just spoke to a 2025 Power 4 commit who received a call this AM she is being “de-committed” based on the revenue sharing model and roster cap yada yada. These are children who have been committed for more than a year in some cases, turning down many other opportunities that
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Marsha Lycan
@mlycan12
Jun 28, 2025
Not so fun fact: nearly every youth player that comes to us has never had a female coach. Don’t get me wrong, there’s a ton of fantastic male coaches but we pride ourselves on developing and mentoring strong kick ##s women to go take on the world by setting an example of being
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Marsha Lycan
@mlycan12
Mar 4, 2025
Labels have taken over our recruiting world. I hear so many young soccer players saying they want to play “Power 4” when they probably can’t name a fraction of the schools that includes, or explain what it means. By the same token, there’s always been the “D1” label….thrown
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Marsha Lycan
@mlycan12
Nov 10, 2025
NCAA Women’s D1 Soccer Championships all wrapped up today. There’s nothing more exciting or heartbreaking. It is often said Sports are all a game of inches but perhaps none so much as Soccer, which of course can come down to the dreaded penalty kicks. There are 29 D1 women’s
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Marsha Lycan
@mlycan12
Nov 10, 2025
Hard to imagine the emotional trauma experienced by the Huskies players & staff. Puts our obsession with chasing a ball around in perspective. Gonna be hard to beat the drive & fortitude that comes from playing for one of their fallen teammates. 💜🙏
espnW
@espnW
Nov 10, 2025
Three days after losing goalkeeper Mia Hamant to kidney cancer, the Washington Huskies won the Big 10 championship in her honor 💜 🧡 ( 📷 @UW_WSoccer)
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Marsha Lycan
@mlycan12
Oct 27, 2025
We receive so many recruiting emails that tell the same story: I have very good grades, I am a hard worker, I am all this and all that on the soccer field. Very few of them describe their mentality. At the college level, our livelihood is dependent upon the performance of our
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Marsha Lycan
@mlycan12
Mar 30, 2015
Sounds about right...@SoccerGrlProbs @soccrcoachprobs
Marsha Lycan
@mlycan12
Nov 11, 2025
I’m seeing so many posts praising teams for their championships and success. Coaches and fan professing how inspired and proud they are, that their team battled while displaying grit and toughness. The confetti and trophies and hype are what we all live for. What it’s all about.
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Marsha Lycan
@mlycan12
Jul 22, 2025
I find all of the debate regarding the rise of ACL injuries in women’s soccer players interesting. Basic science, and the female anatomy explains the higher incidents in women over men pretty easily. But everyone is trying to commit money to research and figure out why we are at
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Marsha Lycan
@mlycan12
Sep 3, 2024
PSA for girls soccer recruits: A very important piece for evaluating programs is looking at the number of 1 year Graduate Transfers on recent rosters. There is a place for these for sure, but once you see 4, 5, 6 or nearly a whole starting lineup, it may suggest something about
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Marsha Lycan
@mlycan12
Jun 8, 2025
We are 1 week out from talking to the class of 2027 for the first time. Let’s remember to keep everything in perspective! Every year we end up committing players we didn’t even know on June 15. #MarathonNotASprint #ClassOf2027 #LetsGo
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