WKU Soccer: Deven Jackson Invited To Train With New Zealand U-20 Side
I’m going to level with you — we do a crap job at covering teams like the soccer team. They’re good people (especially head coach Jason Neidell and the rest of his coaching staff) and they more than deserve our coverage.
I can sit and make excuses all day as to why they don’t get more of it, but this is part of changing that, and it’s some international news, which is always a fun deal when a Topper can go to the international stage.
Deven Jackson, a rising sophomore midfielder, has been invited to New Zealand’s U-20 Women’s World Cup training this week.
Training will run from April 17–20 before the team is selected later this summer. NZ’s U-20 World Cup will open on August 5 vs. the Netherlands in France.
NZ will compete in the Group A, along with also France and Ghana.
Jackson is no stranger to the international stage — she was a member of NZ’s U-17 squad and even played in three friendlies stateside against the US, China and Japan before being named for the U-17 World Cup, but she was unable to compete due to an injury before the event.
The Auckland, NZ native played in 15 matches for the Lady Tops, logging two assists (9/3 vs. Evansville in a 4–1 Lady Tops win and on 10/19 at UTSA in a 3–1 Lady Tops victory) and registering 11 shots, but was unable to score.
