USYS NL SEASON
National League
2021
“We have been building our National League Program year after year, so to see 4 of our teams qualify for this season shows the growth the club has had in its short history.” -Coach Sasan Story by Josh Bivens
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OR the 2021 USYS Nation-
al League (NL) Piedmont Conference Fall Season, Storm had 4 teams that had qualified for this elite competition. Our 08B Premier, 06B Premier, 04B Premier, and 04G Premier all qualified based on their 2020-21 season finishes, including the Piedmont Conference League Winner medal that the 06B captured. The season began on Saturday, August 21 at North Mt. Carmel Park with the 08B Premier playing Highland FC and the 06B Premier playing Augusta SC who had finished 2nd last year as the 04G Premier and 04B Premier would open their seasons at the beginning of September.
Opening Weekend In the first match of the day, the 08B Premier team played Highland FC team that had tremendous quality in their midfield, giving the
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boys a quick understanding of the level increase between Georgia Premier League (GPL) and NL. For the second match of the day, the 06B Premier team were facing a common opponent that knows our team well. Last year, they had pushed all the way to finish 2nd place, so they were looking for a bit of revenge in the first match, hoping to catch our team off-guard. In the opening minutes, Augusta hit the post and targeted Storm’s goal several times but goalkeeper Jon Smith as well as center back’s Diego Guillen and Nyckolas Waits stook up to the challenge as the team played into the match. As the match wore on, Storm started to take control, but ultimately were not successful in finding the winner, resulting in a 0-0 to start the season. Facing that diversity from an opening match loss, the 08B rebounded to a great performance on Sunday losing 1-0 to the eventual league winner in Savannah United, but they showed with the performance
georgiaStorm.com | Dec 2021
