2015 Western New York Flash season

Western New York Flash
2015 Western New York Flash season
President	Alexandra Sahlen
Head coach	Aaran Lines
Stadium	Sahlen's Stadium
Top goalscorer	League: Sam Mewis (3); Lynn Williams (3); All: Sam Mewis (8)
Highest home attendance	2,514; (June 6 vs. Chicago)
Lowest home attendance	1,802; (May 8 vs. Kansas City)
Average home league attendance	2,128
Home colors	Away colors
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PresidentAlexandra Sahlen

Head coachAaran Lines

StadiumSahlen's Stadium

Top goalscorerLeague: Sam Mewis (3)
Lynn Williams (3)
All: Sam Mewis (8)

The 2015 season was Western New York Flash's eighth season of existence, and the third in which they competed in the National Women's Soccer League, the top division of women's soccer in the United States.

March 14, Sat 1	Western New York Flash	4–0	West Virginia Mountaineers	Elma, New York
10:30 EDT UTC-4	Mewis 44' Edmonds 53' Spencer 61' Williams 69'	Report		Stadium: Sahlen Sports Park

March 28, Sat 2	Western New York Flash	8–1	Syracuse Orange	Elma, New York
10:30 EDT UTC-4	Pressley 10' 34' (o.g.) Spencer 40' Angeli 45+' Edmonds 50' Mewis 52', 74' Nchout 90'	Report	Street 62' Pitts 70'	Stadium: Sahlen Sports Park

April 4, Sat 3	Penn State Nittany Lions	0–5	Western New York Flash	Altoona, Pennsylvania
11:00 EDT UTC-4		Report	Kur Larsen 27' Hamilton 60', 75' Mewis 67', 87'	Stadium: Spring Run Stadium

April 12, Sun 1	Seattle Reign FC	5–1	Western New York Flash	Seattle, Washington
19:00 EDT UTC-4	Fishlock 25' Yanez 53' Rapinoe 71', 74', 86'	Boxscore Report^[1]	Angeli 57' 68'	Stadium: Memorial Stadium Attendance: 2,642 Referee: Christina Unkel

April 18, Sat 2	Portland Thorns FC	1–0	Western New York Flash	Portland, Oregon
19:00 EDT UTC-4	Long 22' Wilkinson 74'	Report^[2]		Stadium: Providence Park Attendance: 13,148 Referee: Karen Abt

2015 Western New York Flash season

Match results

Pre-season

Regular season

Standings

Results summary

Results by round

Squad statistics

See also

References

External links

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May 2, Sat 3	Western New York Flash	3–1	Boston Breakers	Rochester, New York
19:00 EDT UTC-4	Mewis 23' (Edwards) Edwards 62' (Williams) Edmonds 74' Leroux 88' (Dahlkemper)	Report^[3]	Marlborough 15' (McCaffrey)	Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium Attendance: 1,837

May 8, Fri 4	Western New York Flash	0–1	FC Kansas City	Rochester, New York
19:00 EDT UTC-4		Report^[4]	Buczkowski 33' Bogus 73'	Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium Attendance: 1,802

May 14, Thu 5	FC Kansas City	0–0	Western New York Flash	Kansas City, Missouri
20:00 EDT UTC-4	Bogus 15' Hagen 48+' Groom 57'	Report^[5]	Taylor 36' Edwards 69' Jones 84' Williams 86'	Stadium: Swope Soccer Village Attendance: 1,847

May 23, Sat 6	Western New York Flash	3–2	Washington Spirit	Rochester, New York
19:00 EDT UTC-4	Williams 11' (Spencer) Mewis 35' (Edwards) Spencer 57' (Edmonds) Mewis 60'	Report^[6]	Nairn 22' (penalty) Oyster 32' Dunn 55' (Nairn) Nairn 63'	Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium Attendance: 2,110

June 6, Sat 7	Western New York Flash	3–1	Chicago Red Stars	Rochester, New York
19:00 EDT UTC-4	S Mewis 51' (Eddy) Eddy 72' (Williams) Fields 75' (unassisted) S Mewis 85'	Report^[7]	Lomnicki 57' Huerta 93+' (DiBernardo)	Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium Attendance: 2,514

June 20, Sat 8	Houston Dash	2–0	Western New York Flash	Houston
20:30 EDT UTC-4	McDonald 39' Ohai 63' Masar 74'	WNY Report NWSL Report^[8]		Stadium: BBVA Compass Stadium Attendance: 3,499 Referee: Ekaterina Koroleva

June 28, Sun 9	Boston Breakers	0–2	Western New York Flash	Boston
17:00 EDT UTC-4	Pathman 29' Evans 31'	WNY Report NWSL Report^[9]	Williams 19' Eddy 42'	Stadium: Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium Attendance: 2,011 Referee: Farhad Dadhko

July 3, Fri 10	Western New York Flash	1–1	Seattle Reign FC	Rochester, New York
19:00 EDT UTC-4	Williams 81'	NWSL Report^[10]	Little 55' (pen.)	Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium Attendance: 2,377

July 11, Sat 11	Seattle Reign FC	4–2	Western New York Flash	Seattle
22:00 EDT UTC-4	Yanez 49' (Barnes) Corsie 52' (unassisted) Brooks 55' (Fletcher) Fishlock 73' (Yanez)	Report^[11]	Frisbie 34' (Mewis) Edwards 67' (Hinkle) Edwards 89'	Stadium: Memorial Stadium Attendance: 5,778 Referee: Brandon Artis

July 19, Sun 12	Western New York Flash	3–3	Sky Blue FC	Rochester, New York
15:00 EDT UTC-4	Spencer 2' Hinkle 25' Heyman 50'		Nadim 39' Freels 60' Pearce 62'	Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Seattle Reign FC	20	13	4	3	41	21	+20	43	NWSL Shield
2	Chicago Red Stars	20	8	9	3	31	22	+9	33	NWSL Playoffs
3	FC Kansas City (C)	20	9	5	6	32	20	+12	32
4	Washington Spirit	20	8	6	6	31	28	+3	30
5	Houston Dash	20	6	6	8	21	26	−5	24
6	Portland Thorns FC	20	6	5	9	27	29	−2	23
7	Western New York Flash	20	6	5	9	24	34	−10	23
8	Sky Blue FC	20	5	7	8	22	28	−6	22
9	Boston Breakers	20	4	3	13	22	43	−21	15

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	Pts	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD
20	23	6	9	5	24	34	−10	4	4	2	16	16	0	2	5	3	8	18	−10

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Stadium	A	A	H	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	H	H	A	A	A	A	H	H
Result	L	L	W	L	D	W	W	L	W	D	L	D	L	L	W	L	D	D	L	W

N	Pos	Player	GP	GS	Min	G	A	WG	Shot	SOG	Cro	CK	Off	Foul	FS	YC
98	FW	Lady Andrade	6	4	328	1	0	0	7	4	0	4	1	4	5	0
6	MF	Jordan Angeli	3	0	63	1	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	1
99	MF	Halimatu Ayinde	8	4	388	1	0	0	5	1	0	0	2	3	3	0
4	MF	Abby Dahlkemper	20	20	1784	0	1	0	8	1	1	0	0	10	5	1
20	MF	Elizabeth Eddy	15	4	664	3	2	2	13	9	3	11	1	6	4	0
12	DF	Kristen Edmonds	11	10	850	0	1	0	5	2	1	8	0	7	4	1
14	MF	Becky Edwards	20	20	1800	2	3	1	13	7	8	68	1	20	12	2
3	DF	Whitney Engen	12	12	1080	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
24	FW	Jamia Fields	10	7	582	1	0	0	11	5	0	0	1	9	3	0
7	MF	Amanda Frisbie	4	2	169	1	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	3	2	0
17	FW	Kristen Hamilton	11	3	313	0	0	0	5	3	0	0	1	7	1	0
23	MF	Michelle Heyman	9	9	798	1	1	0	15	13	1	0	11	11	2	0
16	DF	Jaelene Hinkle	20	20	1800	1	1	0	11	3	3	5	0	8	8	0
10	FW	Camilla Kur Larsen	3	1	57	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	FW	Sydney Leroux	3	3	269	1	0	0	6	1	0	0	0	3	1	0
5	MF	Samantha Mewis	20	20	1685	4	4	1	55	27	1	1	0	22	10	2
11	FW	Ajara Nchout	7	1	128	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	1	1	0
8	MF	Ashley Nick	13	7	610	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	4	2	0
^{[n 1]}23	DF	Toni Pressley	1	1	90	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
15	FW	Jasmyne Spencer	20	19	1596	3	1	1	33	17	0	1	4	15	18	1
19	DF	Chelsea Stewart	3	2	150	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
13	DF	Brittany Taylor	18	18	1620	0	0	0	2	2	1	0	0	11	2	2
9	FW	Lynn Williams	17	13	1176	4	4	1	26	16	1	1	6	8	5	1

July 25, Sat 13	Western New York Flash	0–1	Houston Dash	Rochester, New York
19:00 EDT UTC-4			Lloyd 49'	Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium

July 29, Wed 14	Western New York Flash	0–2	Portland Thorns FC	Rochester, New York
19:00 EDT UTC-4			Sinclair 62' Long 80'	Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium

August 1, Sat 15	Sky Blue FC	1–2	Western New York Flash	Piscataway, New Jersey
19:00 EDT UTC-4	O'Hara 52'		Andrade 35' Eddy 89'	Stadium: Yurcak Field

August 8, Sat 16	FC Kansas City	4–0	Western New York Flash	Kansas City, Missouri
20:00 EDT UTC-4	Robinson 39' (Laddish) Averbuch 69' (unassisted) O'Reilly 84' (Rodriguez) Buczkowski 87' (Silva)	Report	Dahlkemper 65'	Stadium: Swope Soccer Village Attendance: 3,086^[12]

August 12, Wed 17	Washington Spirit	1–1	Western New York Flash	Germantown, Maryland
19:00 EDT UTC-4	Matheson 16'		Williams 80'	Stadium: Maureen Hendricks Field Maryland SoccerPlex

August 23, Sun 18	Chicago Red Stars	0–0	Western New York Flash	Lisle, Illinois
17:00 EDT UTC-4				Stadium: Village of Lisle-Benedictine University Sports Complex

August 29, Sat 19	Western New York Flash	0–2	Chicago Red Stars	Rochester, New York
19:00 EDT UTC-4			Press 40' Hoy 65'	Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium

September 4, Fri 20	Western New York Flash	3–2	Portland Thorns FC	Rochester, New York
19:00 EDT UTC-4	Ayinde 5' Spencer 8' Mewis 24'		Taylor 85' Long 90+2'	Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium

N	Pos	Goal keeper	GP	GS	Min	W	L	T	Shot	SOG	Sav	GA	GA/G	Pen	PKF	SO
1	GK	Sabrina D'Angelo	7	7	555	1	5	0	57	35	24	11	1.571	0	2	0
39	GK	Robyn Horner	1	1	90	1	0	0	7	7	5	2	2	1	1	0
18	GK	Chantel Jones	13	12	1155	4	4	5	150	81	60	21	1.615	1	2	2

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
Seasons
Seasons (9)	2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

v t e 2015 NWSL season by team
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