On June 5th, 2010, the Minnesota Thunder Elite Academy 90/91 Blue team, formally Bangu Tsunami Stars, won its seventh State Cup title making it the most titles any team from Minnesota has claimed.  

After hours of morning rain, the field in St. Croix was full of mud.  With a continuing drizzle, MTA and Woodbury took the field to play the U19 State Cup championship game.  Being a formal rival and meeting proir in State Cup games, Woodbury had proven to be stiff competition.  However today MTA would prevail to make history.  After about fifteen minutes of slipping and slidding, MTA took the lead with a goal from Steph Brandt after which there was no looking back.  The final score was 6-0 with goals contributed from five different players.  

This is not the first time that this team has made Minnesota Soccer history.  In 2003, they were the first U12 team to win State Cup at the U13 level.   

The team will now continue on to the US Youth Midwest Regionals in Dayton, Ohio at the end of the month where they hope to advance to Nationals in July.  

The Minnesota Thunder Elite Academy 90/91 Blue team is made up by:

Player                        College

Gabby Ainsworth- Univeristy of Iowa

Olivia Bagnall- Univeristy of Minnesota

Kelsey Bertamus- Northwestern

Steph Brandt- University of Minnesota

Kelsey Crocker- Creighton

Meg Crowell- Cornell 

Callan Faulkner- St. Thomas

Meredith Finsand- Northwestern

Michelle Gaffaney- North Dakota State

Nia Gilbert- Northern Illinois University

Rachel Hoaglin- Valparaiso

Alex Koller- University of Minnesota

Kate Laxson- Colby

Christa Nyblom- South Dakota State

Stephanie Peterson- South Dakota State

Allie Phillips- Univeristy of Minnesota

Marissa Price- University of Minnesota

Sheri Stapf- University of North Dakota

Jen Sturchio- University of Wisconsin Green Bay

Bri Westlund- Northwestern