2001 WUSA Season

Originally written by GCEDW

Following the success of the 1999 Women's World Cup, the USWNT players and Discovery Channel founder John Hendricks came together to form a professional women's soccer league. The new 8 team league signed a four-year contract with Turner Sports to air a weekly game either on TNT or CNNSI.

The following teams played in the inaugural season:

Atlanta Beat

Boston Breakers

Carolina Courage

New York Power

Philadelphia Charge

San Diego Spirit

San Jose CyberRays

Washington Freedom

Regular Season

APRIL

Saturday 4/14:

Freedom-CyberRays, 2:00, TNT, JP Dellacamera, Wendy Gebauer, Craig Sager

Delayed to 2:00 PT on the west coast

Saturday 4/21:

Beat-Power, 12:00, TNT, JP Dellacamera, Wendy Gebauer

Saturday 4/28:

Courage-Freedom, 12:00, TNT, JP Dellacamera, Wendy Gebauer

MAY

Saturday 5/12:

Beat-Spirit, 12:00, TNT, PBP unknown, Wendy Gebauer

Saturday 5/19:

Courage-Freedom, 12:00, TNT, JP Dellacamera, Wendy Gebauer

Saturday 5/26:

Courage-Spirit, 12:00, TNT

Sunday 5/27:

Breakers-Charge, 6:00, CNNSI

JUNE

Sunday 6/3:

Breakers-Power, 6:00, CNNSI

Sunday 6/10:

Power-CyberRays, 6:00, CNNSI

Sunday 6/17:

Power-Charge, 6:00, CNNSI, JP Dellacamera, Wendy Gebauer

Sunday 6/24:

Spirit-CyberRays, 6:00, CNNSI

JULY

Sunday 7/1:

Charge-Beat, 6:00, CNNSI

Sunday 7/8:

CyberRays-Power, 6:00, CNNSI

Sunday 7/15:

Breakers-CyberRays, 6:00, CNNSI

Sunday 7/22:

CyberRays-Freedom, 6:00, CNNSI

Sunday 7/29:

Spirit-Beat, 6:00, CNNSI

AUGUST

Saturday 8/4:

Freedom-Beat, 12:00, TNT, JP Dellacamera, analyst unknown

Sunday 8/5:

Breakers-Spirit, 6:00, CNNSI, JP Dellacamera, Wendy Gebauer

Saturday 8/11:

Freedom-Power (at Annapolis, MD), 12:00, TNT, JP Dellacamera, Wendy Gebauer

Playoffs

Saturday 8/18:

Semifinal: CyberRays-Power, 4:30, TNT, Beth Mowins, Anson Dorrance

Semifinal: Beat-Charge, 6:45, TNT, JP Dellacamera, Wendy Gebauer

Saturday 8/25:

Founders Cup: Beat-CyberRays (at Foxborough, MA), 2:00, TNT, JP Dellacamera, Wendy Gebauer, Beth Mowins