The 2018 NC Courage began preseason training in the bluster of winter. Their first match of the year was played four days after the start of spring. While other teams rested, the Courage spent a mid-summer break in their league schedule to play a tournament in balmy Miami. And last Saturday, the first day fall, the Courage capped a record-setting season by winning the NWSL Championship, vanquishing Portland and exorcising the demons of a year ago on the Thorns’ home ground. …read more

Source:: WRAL