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| Veronica Owusu |
Ghana is blessed with many soccer talents. No wonder
many Ghanaian scholars in the various colleges and universities in the United
States and Canada end up playing soccer for their various schools during their
academic pursuit.
One such school benefitting from Ghana’s soccer
reserve is the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma (USAO).
There were at least four Ghanaians – two women and two
men – who represented USAO during last season’s college soccer league.
This profile by Ghana Soccer US (www.ghsoccerus.net)
takes a closer look at young female player and scholar Veronica Owusu.
Young Veronica is currently a senior at USAO. As a
talented central midfielder, the 21-year old Ghanaian has combined her soccer
talents with her academic prowess that has gotten her this far.
She completed Wesley Girls Senior High School in
Kumasi, Ghana’s second largest city in 2012 and got scouted for USAO on 2013.
As Veronica puts it, it is not just her soccer
talents that got her an admission at USAO but she was academically good as
well.
Last year, Veronica helped USAO to qualify to the
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Women’s Soccer
National Championship after dispatching the likes of Oklahoma City University,
South West Assemblies of God, Mid American Christian University, Wayland
Baptist University as well as St. Gregory University in their conference.
In 2014, Veronica played in eight games during her
second season as a Drover and took pressure off the offensive attack.
2013 was her freshman season and she played in half
the games and saw five starts.
Before moving to US, Veronica played for
Kumasi-based Ashtown Ladies in Ghana’s National Women’s League.
Veronica who is looking forward to playing
professionally in the United States believes she has the potentials to play
soccer to the highest level and that she is hopeful that she will play
alongside some of the best female soccer players one day.
The possibility of playing for Ghana’s Black Queens
one day is also on her cards.
“If the opportunity comes for me to represent my
country one day, I will take it”, she said.
However, her current ambition is to focus on her
education and play her hearts out for USAO in the upcoming NAIA soccer season
scheduled for August.
