Hermann Trophy winner Kadeisha Buchanan is following fellow Mountaineer and long-time teammate, Ashley Lawrence, to France to continue her soccer career. The two have been teammates since they were nine years old, but now find themselves on opposite sides of a rivalry in Ligue 1, France’s top soccer league. Buchanan signed with Olympique Lyonnais which is based in Lyon, a city about 300 miles away from Lawrence’s new home team in Paris, on Sunday.
The former West Virginia women’s soccer superstars will face off against each other for the first time on May 14, 2017 in league play.