2011 Western New York Flash season

Western New York Flash
2011 season
Owner	Joe Sahlen
Head coach	Aaran Lines
Stadium	Sahlen's Stadium ; Rochester, New York ; (Capacity: 13,768)
Women's Professional Soccer	1st
WPS Playoffs	Champions
Top goalscorer	Marta, Christine Sinclair (10)
Highest home attendance	15,404; (July 20 vs. magicJack)
Lowest home attendance	1,372; (May 13 vs. Boston)
Average home league attendance	4,881
Biggest win	4-1; (July 30 vs. Sky Blue FC)
Biggest defeat	0-2; (July 17 at Sky Blue FC, Aug. 6 at Atlanta)
Home colors	Away colors
	← 2010 2012 →
	All statistics correct as of June 13, 2017.

Last updated March 05, 2025

The 2011 Western New York Flash season was the team's inaugural and only season in the Women's Professional Soccer league, after competing as the Buffalo Flash in the USL W-League. The Western New York Flash won the league, then went on to win the 2011 WPS championship over the Philadelphia Independence.

Review

The Flash joined the Women's Professional Soccer league as an expansion team in 2011, following its undefeated championship season in the USL W-League in 2010 as the Buffalo Flash. The team retained Aaran Lines, who coached the Flash the prior two seasons in the W-League, as its head coach, and remained under the ownership of Joe Sahlen.^[1]

Squad

First-team squad

As of August 16, 2011^[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
0	GK	USA	Brittany Cameron
2	DF	USA	Alexandra Sahlen
3	DF	NZL	Ali Riley
4	MF	POR	Kim Brandão
5	DF	CAN	Candace Chapman
6	DF	USA	Gina Lewandowski
7	MF	USA	McCall Zerboni
8	DF	USA	Kandace Wilson
9	MF	SWE	Caroline Seger (captain)
10	FW	BRA	Marta
12	FW	CAN	Christine Sinclair
13	FW	USA	Alex Morgan


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
14	MF	USA	Becky Edwards
16	FW	ENG	Gemma Davison
17	DF	USA	Kaley Fountain
18	MF	USA	Yael Averbuch
19	MF	USA	Beverly Goebel
20	FW	BRA	Maurine
21	DF	USA	Brittany Bock
23	DF	USA	Whitney Engen
24	GK	USA	Ashlyn Harris
30	GK	USA	Ashleigh Bowers
38	FW	USA	Rebecca Moros

Transfers

In

Out

Squad statistics

Source: WPS

Squad statistics are of the regular season only.

N	Pos	Player	GP	GS	Min	G	A	PK	Shot	SOG	SOG%	Foul	FS	YC
18	M	Yael Averbuch	13	8	734	0	2	0	11	1	9%	4	5	0
21	M	Brittany Bock	18	17	1456	1	1	0	11	9	82%	21	16	2
4	D	Kimberly Brandao	2	2	180	0	1	0	0	0	—	0	1	0
5	D	Candace Chapman	12	12	1026	0	1	0	0	0	—	1	6	0
16	F	Gemma Davison	12	5	507	1	2	0	10	6	60%	6	9	0
14	D	Becky Edwards	18	18	1445	3	1	0	18	7	39%	15	13	2
23	D	Whitney Engen	17	17	1530	0	0	0	5	2	40%	3	5	1
17	F	Kaley Fountain	5	2	160	0	0	0	3	0	0%	0	0	1
19	M	Beverly Goebel	14	3	428	1	1	0	5	2	40%	2	3	0
6	D	Gina Lewandowski	8	6	594	0	0	0	0	0	—	5	4	1
10	F	Marta	14	13	1192	10	5	1	41	27	66%	17	16	0
20	F	Maurine	1	1	59	0	0	0	0	0	—	0	0	0
13	F	Alex Morgan	13	6	689	4	3	0	26	17	65%	8	8	0
38	F	Rebecca Moros	17	11	1098	0	0	0	3	2	67%	12	5	1
3	D	Ali Riley	15	15	1305	0	1	0	7	5	71%	6	4	0
2	D	Alexandra Sahlen	2	1	79	0	0	0	0	0	—	2	0	0
9	M	Caroline Seger	12	10	938	5	1	1	19	14	74%	7	9	1
12	F	Christine Sinclair	15	14	1191	10	8	1	44	25	57%	5	5	0
8	F	Kandace Wilson	13	9	875	0	0	0	4	2	50%	4	6	1
7	M	McCall Zerboni	14	11	915	4	3	0	13	8	62%	5	8	1
Team Total			235	181	16401	39	30	3	220	127	57.73%	123	123	11

N	Pos	Goal keeper	GP	GS	Min	GA	GA/G	PKA	PKF	Shot	Sav	Sav%	Sho	YC	RC
24	GK	Ashlyn Harris	18	18	1620	18	1.00	2	2	72	50	73.5%	5	0	0

Club

Management

Position	Staff
Head coach	Aaran Lines
Assistant coach	Scott Vallow
Strength and conditioning coach	Demeris Johnson

Last updated: August 22, 2011
Source: WPS

Competitions

Women's Professional Soccer

Pre-season

March 26, 2011Pre 1	Western New York Flash	3-1	Syracuse Orange	Rochester, NY, U.S.
				Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium

Regular season

April 17, 2011 WPS 1	Boston Breakers	1-2	Western New York Flash	Allston, Massachusetts, U.S.
	Bock 75' Smith 90+'	Report	Sinclair 66' (Morgan) Davison 90+'	Stadium: Harvard Stadium Attendance: 4,158 Referee: Kari Seitz

April 24, 2011 WPS 2	Atlanta Beat	2-2	Western New York Flash	Kennesaw, Georgia, U.S.
	Sesselmann 36' Lloyd 43' Chalupny 58' Lloyd 70' Flanagan 80' Mitts 85'	Report	Sinclair 3' (Bock) Marta 67' (Sinclair) Fountain 71'	Stadium: Kennesaw State University Soccer Stadium Attendance: 3,075

May 1, 2011 WPS 3	Western New York Flash	3-0	Atlanta Beat	Rochester, New York, U.S.
	Sinclair 23' Engen 45+' Sinclair 59' (Marta) Morgan 73' (Parker) Zerboni 89'	Report	Mitts 21' Sesselmann 68' Flanagan 75'	Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium Attendance: 2,164 Referee: Ted Unkel

May 6, 2011 WPS 4	Western New York Flash	3-1	Sky Blue FC	Rochester, New York, U.S.
	Morgan 5' (Marta) Seger 40' (Marta) Marta 77' (Alex Morgan)	Report	Adriana 66' (Sjögran)	Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium Attendance: 1,704 Referee: Christina Ibanez

May 13, 2011 WPS 5	Western New York Flash	3-2	Boston Breakers	Rochester, New York, U.S.
	Bock 10' (Zerboni) Zerboni 25' (Brandao) Zerboni 69' (Davison)	Report	Bogus 38' (Washington) Moore 80' (penalty)	Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium Attendance: 1,372

May 22, 2011 WPS 6	Western New York Flash	3-0	magicJack	Rochester, New York, U.S.
	Edwards 3' (Sinclair) Seger 42' (Sinclair) Bock 68' Seger 84' (penalty)	Report	Ellertson 84'	Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium Attendance: 8,076 Referee: Daniel Radford

May 29, 2011 WPS 7	Philadelphia Independence	1-2	Western New York Flash	Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.
	Rapinoe 9' (Sanderson) Magnusdottir 26' Rapinoe 75' McNeill 87'	Report	Edwards 14' (Zerboni) Marta 23' (penalty) Lewandowski 53'	Stadium: Widener University Attendance: 3,456 Referee: Christina Ibanez

June 3, 2011 WPS 8	Western New York Flash	2-2	Sky Blue FC	Rochester, New York, U.S.
	Edwards 13' Seger 25' Sinclair 39' (Davison) Seger 44' (Sinclair)	Report	Blank 14' Long 65' (penalty) Nogueira 88' (Adriana)	Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium Attendance: 2,643 Referee: Felisha Mariscal

June 12, 2011 WPS 9	Western New York Flash	0-1	Philadelphia Independence	Rochester, New York, U.S.
	Magnusdottir 78' Adams 90+' (Sanderson)	Report	Lohman 22' Buczkowski 72' Wilson 83'	Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium Attendance: 2,397 Referee: Daniel Radford

July 9, 2011 WPS 10	Philadelphia Independence	2-1	Western New York Flash	Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.
	Kai 8' (DiMartino) Farrelly 45+'	Report	Sinclair 81' (penalty)	Stadium: Widener University Attendance: 2,556 Referee: Moo Hackett

July 17, 2011 WPS 11	Sky Blue FC	0-2	Western New York Flash	Piscataway, New Jersey, U.S.
	Branam 34'	Report	Edwards 43' Dew 81' (o.g.) Goebel 86' (Sinclair)	Stadium: Yurcak Field Attendance: 1,441 Referee: Ted Unkel

July 20, 2011 WPS 12	Western New York Flash	3-1	magicJack	Rochester, New York, U.S.
	Sinclair 9' (Edwards) Sinclair 51' (Marta) Zerboni 69' (Sinclair)	Report	Masar 41' (Washington)	Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium Attendance: 15,404 Referee: Christina Ibanez

July 24, 2011 WPS 13	Boston Breakers	2-2	Western New York Flash	Allston, Massachusetts, U.S.
	O'Hara 20' (Schoepfer) O'Hara 67' O'Hara 84' (Zimmeck)	Report	Marta 38' (Zerboni) Morgan 87'	Stadium: Harvard Stadium Attendance: 6,222 Referee: Daniel Radford

July 30, 2011 WPS 14	Sky Blue FC	1-4	Western New York Flash	Piscataway, New Jersey, U.S.
	Adriana 22' (Sjögran) Dew 83'	Report	Zerboni 29' Marta 35' (Averbuch) Sinclair 38' (Chapman) Morgan 90+' (Goebel)	Stadium: Yurcak Field Attendance: 5,065 Referee: Kari Seitz

August 3, 2011 WPS 15	Western New York Flash	2-1	Boston Breakers	Rochester, New York, U.S.
	Sinclair 21' (Marta) Edwards 28' (Riley)	Report	Winters 47' (O'Hara)	Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium Attendance: 4,463 Referee: Patrick Baker

August 6, 2011 WPS 16	Atlanta Beat	0-2	Western New York Flash	Kennesaw, Georgia, U.S.
		Report	Marta 10' (Averbuch) Marta 41' (Sinclair)	Stadium: Kennesaw State University Soccer Stadium Attendance: 7,112

August 10, 2011 WPS 17	magicJack	1-2	Western New York Flash	Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.
	Schmidt 71' (Rampone) Wambach 85'	Report	Moros 56' Marta 65' (Seger) Marta 74'	Stadium: FAU Soccer Field Attendance: 4,011 Referee: Daniel Radford

August 14, 2011 WPS 18	Western New York Flash	2-0	Atlanta Beat	Rochester, New York, U.S.
	Seger 37' (Morgan) Marta 75' (Sinclair)	Report		Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium Attendance: 5,702 Referee: Moo Hackett

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Ground	A	A	H	H	H	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	A	H	A	A	H
Result	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	D	L	L	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	W

Updated to match(es) played on August 22, 2011. Source: WPS
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Home/Away Results


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
18	13	3	2	40	18	+22	42	7	1	1	21	8	+13	6	2	1	19	10	+9

Last updated: August 22, 2011.
Source: WPS

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Western New York Flash	18	13	3	2	40	18	+22	42	Advance to Championship
2	Philadelphia Independence	18	11	3	4	31	18	+13	36	Advance to Super Semifinal
3	magicJack	18	9	2	7	29	29	0	28^[a]	Advance to First round
4	Boston Breakers	18	5	4	9	19	24	−5	19^[b]	Advance to First round
5	Sky Blue FC	18	5	4	9	24	29	−5	19^[b]
6	Atlanta Beat	18	1	4	13	7	32	−25	7

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points, 2) goal difference, 3) head-to-head result.
Notes:

↑ magicJack were deducted a point for various league violations.^[3]
1 2 BOS: 7 pts; SKY: 4 pt

WPS Playoffs

August 27, 2011 WPS Championship	Western New York Flash	1-1 (a.e.t.) (5-4 p)	Philadelphia Independence	Rochester, New York, U.S.
4:00 p.m. (EST)	Edwards 25' Sinclair 64' Goebel 96' 108' Marta 103'	Report	Rodriguez 88', 90+3'	Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium Attendance: 10,461 Referee: Kari Seitz
	Penalties
	Marta Sinclair Zerboni Seger Averbuch		Sanderson Adams Robinson Boquete del Rio

Awards

WPS Player of the Week

Week	Player of the Week	Week's Statline
Week 4	Christine Sinclair	2 G, GWG
Week 5	Marta	2 A, 1 G, GWA
Week 6	McCall Zerboni	1 A, 2 G, GWG
Week 7	Caroline Seger	2 G
Week 15	Christine Sinclair	1 A, 2 G, GWG
Week 15	Christine Sinclair	BOS 2-2 WNY

WPS Player of the Month

Month	Player of the Month	Month's Statline
May	McCall Zerboni	2 G, 2 A in 5 games; Flash 5-0 in May

WPS year-end awards

Award	Player	Notes
WPS Defender of the Year	Whitney Engen	Started and played the full 90 in all but one game
US Coast Guard Goalkeeper of the Year	Ashlyn Harris	Led the league in regular season goals per game average (1.00)
PUMA Golden Boot (Top Scorer)	Marta	Scored ten goals, earning her third consecutive award

Source: 2011 WPS Year End Awards ^[4]

WPS Best XI

Player	Position
Ashlyn Harris	Goalkeeper
Whitney Engen *	Defense
Ali Riley	Defense
Caroline Seger	Midfield
Christine Sinclair *	Forward
Marta	Forward

* – unanimous selection
Source: WPS Announces Best XI of 2011

References

↑ Kassouf, Jeff (September 24, 2010). "Western New York becomes WPS' eighth team". Equalizer Soccer. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
↑ "Western New York Flash :: Players". Women's Professional Soccer. Archived from the original on August 16, 2011.
↑ "WPS Imposes Punishment on magicJack with Point Deduction, Loss of Draft Picks". allwhitekit.com. May 12, 2011. Archived from the original on May 19, 2011.
↑ "WPS Announces 2011 Year End Awards". WPS. August 17, 2011. Archived from the original on August 21, 2011. Retrieved June 13, 2017.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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[table_hth_mJ0.3906938645014-4] Jack were deducted a point for various league violations.^[3]

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[eq-20100924-1] Kassouf, Jeff (September 24, 2010). "Western New York becomes WPS' eighth team". Equalizer Soccer. Retrieved June 13, 2017.

[2] "Western New York Flash :: Players". Women's Professional Soccer. Archived from the original on August 16, 2011.

[3] "WPS Imposes Punishment on magicJack with Point Deduction, Loss of Draft Picks". allwhitekit.com. May 12, 2011. Archived from the original on May 19, 2011.

[6] "WPS Announces 2011 Year End Awards". WPS. August 17, 2011. Archived from the original on August 21, 2011. Retrieved June 13, 2017.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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v t e Western New York Flash
Founded 2008 Based in Rochester, New York
The Club	History Colors and badge Supporters Roster
Stadium	All-High Stadium Niagara University
Key personnel	President: Alexandra Sahlen Head Coach: Gary Bruce
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Seasons (9)	2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017