Racing sign No. 4 Overall Pick Sav DeMelo

Courtesy Connor Cunningham

For the 3rd week in a row, Racing has announced the signing of a player. Today Savannah DeMelo signed her first professional contact. It is a 2-year deal. DeMelo was taken with the 4th overall pick by Racing in its natural position in the 2022 NWSL College Draft (Howell being taken by the pick from Angel City). In her career at USC, DeMelo scored 17 goals and provided 28 assists from the midfield. With another midfielder signed, Racing has significantly upgraded their midfield roster for 2022. While you can almost certainly pencil in Jae Howell as a starter, it will be interesting to see how much “New Sav” (coining it!) will be on the pitch this year. She suffered an Achilles tendon injury that made her miss her entire junior year at USC. Her senior season at the Trojans saw her recover most of her form. She had been first-team All-PAC-12 in her freshman and sophomore year and was second team in her senior year. I believe that she will be allowed to ease into the team and get minutes as a sub throughout the season with a target of earning a starting role as the season progresses.

In other news, Racing’s USL W-League announced its schedule yesterday. Home matches will be Lynn Family Sports Vision & Training Center, where admission is free and open to the public. There is an 11 day stretch from May 15th to May 25th where Racing will play 4 matches at home. If you can’t ever get enough soccer, that may be a dream week for you. I would like to get out to all of those matches, but that might be a difficult goal to achieve for me. If anyone knows that they will be attending all of those matches and would like to give match reports on this site, let me know. The easiest and most reliable way is to hit me up on Twitter, but you can also get my email address in the About section of this site. Even if anyone wants to do a single match, let me know.