Campbell to compete with U15 National Team next month

Darlington School sophomore Jane Campbell, a goalkeeper in the ’95 girls Georgia ODP program, has once again been called up to the U.S. Under-15 Girls' National Team training camp from Nov.19-25 in Sunrise, Fla.

U.S. head coach Mike Dickey will bring 24 players to the camp for a week of training that also will include three matches. Dickey has called up 24 players, 20 born in 1995 and four in 1996, for the final U-15 GNT camp of the year. The squad will play two U-16 ODP Regional Teams made up of players born in 1994, facing the Region I (East) team on Tuesday, Nov. 23, at 10 a.m. at Florida Atlantic University and the Region 3 (South) squad on Thursday, Nov. 25, at 8 a.m. at FAU. The U.S. U-15s will also scrimmage the Norwegian College of Elite Sport on Sunday, Nov. 21, at 7 p.m. at FAU.

These players are at the beginning of a cycle that has the end goal of qualifying for the 2012 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup. The roster features players from 18 different states.

Campbell is one of four female Darlington School Soccer Academy players currently competing at the national level, representing the U.S. on the U15, U16, U17 national teams. In August, she competed with the U17 team in Miami, playing Nigeria and South Korea.

“It has always been one of my dreams to play for the U.S. and I hope I will keep on getting called back in the future,” she said. “When I was little, I used to tell my dad that I wanted to play on the national team and to actually be doing it is just incredible."

Campbell, who has been playing at the national level over a year, also competes with the club team Concorde Fire South. Her early success in the sport has inspired her to set some very lofty goals for herself, and at the rate she is going anything is possible.

“I hope to get called into every national team camp there is, to be the starting keeper for the U17 World Cup in two years, play Division I soccer and start all four years, be the starting keeper for the full women’s national team during the Olympics, and eventually win a gold medal,” she said.