1-for-1! Utah Uprising FC wins first WMLIS championship following unbeaten inaugural season
The professional women's indoor soccer team capped its expansion campaign with a 10-4 win over reigning champion Chicago in Sunday's WMLIS championship at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas.
Utah’s biggest uprising came when it mattered the most.
Utah Uprising FC, the professional women’s indoor soccer team launched early this season, capped its expansion campaign with a 10-4 win over reigning champion Chicago Mustangs in Sunday’s WMLIS championship at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas.
After a 10-0 regular season, Utah rolled to a 19-1 win over Fort Wayne in the semifinals as part of championship weekend of Women’s Major League Indoor Soccer, an eight-team indoor league with teams from New Jersey to Phoenix split into two conferences.
In the championship final, Hannah Lee had a hat trick (and an assist, for good measure) to lead Utah, and Dominique Estrada added two goals and two assists.
“All season long, we felt like we were overlooked and underestimated — never really given recognition we thought we deserved,” said Estrada, the Copper Hills High alum who played at SLCC and Westminster before a pro career with Club León in Mexico. “But as a team, we proved ourselves time and time again. This is something we all wanted more than anything!”
McKenzie Evans-Tostado supplied two goals and four assists for Utah, which jumped out to a 6-3 lead at halftime and never looked back en route to the grand prize and $25,000 in prize money presented by the league.
Watch the final below via the MLIS YouTube channel.