The Portland Thorns opening the 2017 preseason with their first training of the year at Providence Park on Monday.
With all but Christine Sinclair (family matters) and Ashleigh Sykes (not joining the team until June), the Thorns began their training working on their conditioning, with goalkeepers Adrianna Franch, Britt Eckerstrom, and Emily Armstrong working on a variety of drills with Nadine Angerer, while the field players worked with Thorns assistant coaches for the first half of training, which including a variety of passing activities and small-sided keep-away games.
The goalkeepers joined the field players for larger sessions of keep-away for the second part of training.