Women’s World Cup Rally

USWNTYou know this is big because L.A. Live offers free parking tomorrow in Lot W and Lot C North. The U.S. Women’s World Cup winners hold a championship rally at 11 a.m. at L.A. Live. Details and RSVP are here. I will be at the England women’s rally at Leicester Square.

29 thoughts on “Women’s World Cup Rally

  1. Never went to a Lakers’ parade when they were winning all those championships, and won’t be going to the soccer parade tomorrow. I am a fan but not a fanatic, I guess.

    Now, if they had had a parade for the 2003 and 2004 Trojans’ football national champions, I just might have shown up. Then I am a fanatic

    • Sorry, they don’t hold parades for paper titles or stripped nattys!!

      They are holding a Parade of the Three Stars, but they charge parking for that.

    • I thought they did have a mini parade for that Matt Leinart SC team from City Hall to the SC campus?

      Maybe some one can confirm that.

      • Don’t expect Bucket to rely on facts. He is here solely to provoke.

      • They had one for the 2003 AP champs…Trojans Celebrate USC Day In L.A.!

        All three USC national championship teams were honored at City Hall then at an on-campus celebration.

        Jan. 21, 2004

        Click here for more photos from USC’s national championship celebration!

        By: Meaghan Agnew, USC News Service

        Amid raucous cheers and flashing Trojan victory signs, a triumvirate of USC champions — the 2003 football, women’s volleyball and men’s water polo teams — were honored Jan. 21 by the city of Los Angeles.

        Dubbed “USC Trojans Day in L.A.” by the Los Angeles City Council, the day’s festivities kicked off at 10 a.m., with a ceremony on the steps of City Hall in downtown Los Angeles. Family members and fans gathered in front of the building’s First Street steps to honor the first three teams in the USC history to win championships in the same fall season.

        Associate band director Tony Fox led members of the Trojan Marching Band in renditions of “Tribute to Troy” and “Fight On” as USC President Steven B. Sample, Athletic Director Mike Garrett, the three head coaches and several city council members — many flashing victory signs — made their way out of City Hall and onto a stage already packed with student athletes.

        City council member Bernard Parks, sporting a cardinal and gold scarf, opened the proceedings.

        “USC Trojans are the cornerstone of our community, and what we are here to do today is to show America that you win championships in the pool, on the court or on the field, not in the computer,” Parks said, making a good-natured swipe at football’s BSC rankings controversy.

        Los Angeles deputy mayor for economic development Renata Simril, a USC alumna, then presented the mayor’s proclamation to Sample.

        “As the highest-ranking Trojan in the mayor’s office, it gives me the distinct honor and privilege of honoring the University of Southern California and proclaiming today, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2004, as USC Trojans Day,” she said.

        Garrett paid homage to the coaching staff that brought USC championship glory.

        “I think we have the best coaching staff in the country,” Garrett said. “Not only do they coach those that excel in their sports, but they are educators. I think we produce the best student-athletes in the country.”

        Sample closed the ceremony by giving special praise to Garrett for building USC’s athletic program.

        “Mike is the guy who recruited and appointed the best coaching staff overall in the United States, Mike’s athletes academically have done wonderfully well, and Mike and his staff have raised more private funding for intercollegiate athletics at USC than all other ADs and coaches in our history combined,” Sample said.

        A procession through the streets of Los Angeles launched the second half of the day’s program. Following the City Hall ceremony, the three USC teams piled onto four open-air double-decker buses and began the 2 1/2-mile drive back to campus.

        USC supporters and curious bystanders alike cheered the convoy as it headed down Figueroa Street before turning onto the University Park campus to kick off a noontime pep rally at Cromwell Field.

        A crowd of nearly 3,000 Trojan parents, students, faculty and staff and neighborhood residents erupted into sustained cheers as the three championship teams bounded onto the stage, which also displayed the three national championship trophies.

        “It’s a great day to be a Trojan,” said Sample. “We are so proud of our student athletes. Their accomplishments will inspire generations of Trojans for many years to come. You’ve brought great honor to yourselves, to your families and to USC.”

        Sample also thanked the supporters on hand.

        “You continue to play a major role in the success of the greatest athletic legacy in the history of any intercollegiate athletics. And for that, we are truly grateful,” he said.

        Each of the teams’ three coaches then paid tribute to the players, singling out their All-American first-team members. Football coach Pete Carrollalso was presented with two more national championship trophies from the Football Writers Association of America (the Grantland Rice Trophy) and The Sporting News.

        A performance by the Trojan Marching Band and a celebratory lap by Traveler, the football team’s equine mascot, brought the rally to a close.

        The football, water polo and women’s volleyball teams made USC athletic history when they brought home three national championships in the span of 30 days.

        After the Trojan football team (12-1) beat Michigan in the Rose Bowl, 28-14, it earned 48 of 65 first-place votes to finish No. 1 in the Associated Press poll. The team was led by All-American first-teamers Mike Williams, Kenechi Udeze, Jacob Rogers, Matt Leinart and Tom Malone.

        The Women of Troy volleyball team capped an undefeated (35-0) season when it beat Florida to capture its second consecutive NCAA crown, an unparalleled feat in the history of USC women’s volleyball. The team also became the first repeat champion to go undefeated, as it extended its NCAA-record 47-match winning streak. The team featured All-American first-team picks April Ross, Emily Adams and Bibiana Candelas.

        The USC men’s water polo team (24-3), behind All-American first teamers Bozidar Damjanovic, Predrag Damjanov and Juraj Zatovic, beat Stanford to win its second-ever NCAA title.

        All three squads also featured coaches who were National Coach of the Year honorees.

  2. Scott Wolf celebrating with the 3rd place team. …..what a shocker. …he’s a frustrated Brit trapped in an Americans body…..

  3. Why don’t they ever hold these celebrations in Westwood, land of the little gutties?

    Oh, that’s right. Being in Westwood is like being transported back to the ’70’s, except there’s a lot more vacated shop spaces for rent nowadays and more room for another men’s shoe store that sells Florsheims. Yah!

    • Why don’t they host it in South Central LA? And Please don’t tell me that usc isn’t in South Central and that it’s in “SOLA” or (laughs) “Downtown LA.”

      • What’s wrong with South Central, you a racist!

        Besides, have you been in West Los Angeles lately?– It is nothing but a parking lot these days.

        • Come Walnut, when you escape to WLA and park your Pinto, you have a 100% chance it will be there when you return.

        • Um…barrister Wolcott, you really need to work on your reading comprehension skills.

          You can call me a geographist if you wish, because there is only one LA master map, but usc is and (because the old fogey alumni will it) will always be in the mighty, mighty South Central LA area.

          Deal with it.

          I got love for SC.

    • We’ve won so many NC’s that Bruins don’t need to March up and down Figueroa screaming we’re chumps, just ask us. .

      Bruins: Been there, done that many times.

      socal: Sand Volleyball champs.

      • They would probably have about as many that showed up for the UCLA Spring game lol

      • Hey ugly rents the rose bowl, tell me how many championships has Thug U aka ugly won by not cheating? I can tell you at least 11 or more. LMAO. Thug U = ugly = Cheater’s U. they are all the same.

  4. Wolf, USA wins the World and you go with the 3rd place team. Fits perfectly.

  5. Leicester Square… be sure to pick up some half price theatre tickets, Scott. That’s where the best tickets can be had for the price.

    • Scott Wolf? …Going to the theatre?….. surely, you jest…….

  6. I can just see SW in England where he’s just a wants be thugg wearing a cheerleader costume drinking warm beer.

    • Scott Wolf was born to be a hooligan……….Wembley Stadium, here he comes!

  7. Amy Rodriguez is a USC alum. I need to get down there today to check that cutie out.

  8. You go girls! I hope Amy gets to speak and show off her speaking skills. Fight On!

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