The Blue Heat had two Armenian internationals on their side—midfielder Nancy Avesyan (31) and defender Sydney Vermillion (33)—who both played at Cal State Northridge and grew up in the Los Angeles area, which has a large Armenian ex-pat community. Midfielder Iris Rabot is from France and played in Olympique Lyon's Academy and is now at James Madison University in Virginia. after starting at the University of Northwestern Ohio. Forward Cayla McFarlane is a Trinidad and Tobago full national team players and is at Harvard University. Forward Olufolasade Adamolekun plays at USC and internationally for Jamaica, after being called into U.S. national team camps as a youth. Blue Heat defender Lauren Sesselmann was a long-time Canadian national team player with 46 caps, winning a Bronze Medal in the 2012 Olympic Games Finals in London; she played at Purdue, FC Indiana in the WPSL and W-League as well as Sky Blue FC and the Atlanta Beat in the WPS (2009-2011) and FC Kansas City and the Houston Dash in the NWSL (2013-2015). Yujie Zhao will be a senior at Florida State University and played in the 2018 U-20 Women's World Cup in France for China.
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