http://www.12thman.com/news/2016/8/31/watt-headed-to-us-soccer-u20-national-team-training-camp.aspx

Red shirting so,she can play with U20 national team

The National team has 5 players from Penn State?
1. What has that done to the Penn State team being without 5 top players? They are all redshirting this fall also. I see that they are 4-2-1 with losses to UCLA 0-1 OT and BYU 2-3. Does anyone know if these would all be starters on the Penn State team?
2. That seems crazy that Penn State would have 5 players on the team. Are they all deserving?

When they played us here in 2014 they had a very young team and had a top 5 recruiting class coming in so they probably were deserving.

Just surprised to see 5 from one team. That is a lot of talent on one team. And it seems like it would cripple a team to lose that much talent for a season. Think if we lost 5 of our best players for the season.

It's a LOT of talent on one team.

The core players in this age group have been consistently in the pool and on the team for at least 5 years (some longer) - well before they were in college. Of the 5 Penn State players, 3 normally start and play the majority, if not all, NT games. Penn State winning the National Championship last year may have made it easier for the players to redshirt (as was required by US Soccer) this year.

There were another 4 regulars (starters) from Stanford, plus Taylor Racioppi (Duke) and Miki Harvey who were among the core group who would have likely started/seen significant minutes in the upcoming U20 WWC. Those 6 players opted to decline, due to the redshirt mandate. The remaining "starters" are scattered among colleges and HS - two from Notre Dame. Mallory Pugh (captain) who has stated she will compete at the U20 WWC and, in fact, deferred her enrollment to UCLA to do so, plus a few others.

Having 6 usual starters opt not to compete created opportunities for players who have been in and out of NT camps to win those spots. I believe the final "official" roster is due to be announced in early October.

The U20 team went 0-2-1 in a tournament this past week. Looking at the USA Soccer website, Ally did not play in any of the games nor was she shown as a substitute who did not play.