March 3, 2026
Photo Cred: Cody Roper, 2025 WPSL Championship
OKLAHOMA CITY (February 27, 2026) — Reigning WPSL champions, Sporting CT, was named the Kendra Halterman Outstanding Women’s Amateur Team last month at U.S. Soccer’s Annual General Meeting in Atlanta.
Sporting was one of two WPSL clubs to take home awards named for WPSL and women’s soccer icons this year. Five-time WPSL champions California Storm was also recognized with the Jerry Zanelli Outstanding Women’s Amateur Club award.
Both awards were named after women’s soccer pioneers and WPSL icons.
We are so grateful to receive this award and be able to honor the amazing work that Kendra Halterman has done in this game
Sporting went an impressive 13-0-1, winning Northeastern Conference and East Region titles before toppling reigning WPSL champions California Storm in the WPSL Championships final. The award, announced at U.S. Soccer’s Annual General Meeting last month was named after women’s soccer pioneer and current WPSL commissioner, Kendra Halterman.
“We are so grateful to receive this award and be able to honor the amazing work that Kendra Halterman has done in this game,” Tiffany Weimer, Sporting CT player/coach, said. “It means so much to Sporting CT as a whole club to gain national recognition for the work the staff, players, and the parents are doing to create one of the best environments for girls and women in the Northeast and hopefully soon, the country.”
As an extension of its youth team founded in 2012, Sporting CT launched its women’s side in 2022 to provide a professional environment for older players to play and train during the months they are not playing with professional, college, or elite-level youth teams.
“We are also thankful to the WPSL for giving us the platform to maintain playing at a high level during the summer months,” Weimer said. “It helps to fill a huge void that still exists for women’s soccer in this country.
Also in the running for the year’s top women’s amateur club team was Edgewater Castle FC, Pan World Elite, and Utah United.
Halterman is a longtime advocate for women’s adult soccer whose involvement in the WPSL spans 25 of the league’s 29-year existence. In 2024 she became the league's first female commissioner. For more than a decade she served on the Utah Soccer Adult Board, helping merge her home state’s youth and adult soccer organizations, where she now serves as Vice President of adult programs for the Utah Soccer Federation. Along with her role as WPSL commissioner, Halterman has long served as an advocate for women’s soccer on the national level serving on the USASA Affiliate Board representing national leagues including the WPSL, the U.S. Open Cup Disciplinary Committee, as Executive Director of Deaf Soccer of USA. She was also player and manager of Pan World, a women’s amateur team based in Salt Lake City, winners of the 2024 USASA Women’s Amateur Cup, and semifinalists in the inaugural Brandi Chastain Cup in 2025.
