Women's soccer

has grown exponentially over the last few years and it takes another huge

step now as the WUSA gets underway.

The Atlanta

Beat, our own professional women's soccer team, will kick off the season

this Saturday against the New York Power.

The Beat is

comprised of national team members, college standouts and W-league players.

Local stars Julie and Nancy Augustyniak, both recent members of The Atlanta

Classics and Clemson University's women's team, play on the team, as do

Brianna Scurry and Nikki Serlenga, both members of the U.S. national team.

Other members of the team include Charmaine Hooper and Sharolta Nonen

of the Canadian national team, Sun Wen of the Chinese national team and

Homare Sawa of the Japanese national team.

Their opponents

this weekend have three members of the U.S. team; Tiffeny Milbrett, Christie

Pearce and Sara Whalen, and three other members of national teams; Gao

Hung of China, Anne Nielsen of Denmark, and Gro Espeth of the Norwegian

Olympic team.

The game will

be at noon Saturday at Bobby Dodd Stadium and will be televised on TNT.

Tickets are $8-20 and can be purchased from any Ticketmaster outlet or

online at www.theatlantabeat.com .

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