Sandy • After three weeks of preseason, the Utah Royals are about to dispense with the training grind and start preparing for the real thing.
The Royals are coming off a weeklong stint in Los Angeles where they faced the women’s soccer teams of California State Long Beach and the University of California. URFC dispatched each rather easily, left the sunny skies of L.A., and returned to the thin air of Salt Lake City, where they will have one more week of preseason before switching into regular-season mode.
Due to the National Women’s Soccer League only having nine teams, one of them gets a bye for the first week of the regular season, which begins April 13.