PULLMAN, Wash. - After finishing a historic season at Washington State, senior Morgan Weaver, junior Makamae Gomera-Stevens, and sophomore Mykiaa Minniss will continue to play on as the trio of Cougars were called into national team duty this week in Florida. The attacking duo of Weaver and Gomera-Stevens will join the senior national team camp in Bradenton, Fla. while Minniss will pull on the U-20 jersey in Lakewood Ranch, Fla to play in the 2019 Nike International Friendlies.

For Weaver and Gomera-Stevens, the duo become the first Cougars to be called into camp with the top team in the U.S., training alongside of 24 other professionals and college players in the Identification Camp. The camp includes 14 professional players from the NWSL and 10 other college players from Stanford, North Carolina, UCLA, Florida State, and Texas A&M. The camp will be guided under the watchful eye of new USWNT Head Coach Vlatko Andonovski who made initial call ups to the camp last week prior to the NCAA Tournament Quarterfinals. The identification camp will not include any players from the 2019 World Cup squad. The two Cougs join 10 other players who are earning their first call-up to the senior National Team.

With her teammates heading to training camp, Minniss heads back to action on the pitch as the second-year centerback was called into camp by U-20 Head Coach Mark Carr to take part in the friendly tournament. The U-20 squad will split up into two teams for the three-day event with the U.S. teams playing U-20 squads from Brazil and France at the Premier Sports Campus in Lakewood Ranch, Fla. The U.S. teams will play Dec. 11 and Dec. 13. The matches are serving as preparation for February's Concacaf Women's U-20 Championship to be held in the Dominican Republic. All five tournament games will be streamed live on ussoccer.com, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. 

Named a third-team all-american last week, Weaver will put on the senior national team jersey for the first time after spending the last two years as part of the U-23 system. Weaver saw action in the 2018 Thorns Spring Invitational with the U.S., assisting on the game-tying goal in a 2-2 draw with the host Thorns in the tournament finale. In her final season at WSU, Weaver led the Cougars to the College Cup for the first time in program history as she etched her name among the all-time greats to have played in the Crimson and Gray. In a year with ebbs and flows, Weaver put together a career year as she ended the season with 15 goals, including 10 in the final eight games of the season. Her 15 goals ranks as the third-most in program history an the most scored in the last 26 seasons. She would add five assists as well to her scoring as she accounted for over 44% of WSU's tallies on the year. In the postseason with the lights the brightest, Weaver notched a team-best four goals including scoring the first College Cup goal in program history against the eventual national runner-up, North Carolina, in the semifinals. Her 35 total points on the season rank as the third-most in single season history. For her career, Weaver finished with 43 goals and 98 total points, both ranking second all-time in program history. Making the most of her time in front of goal, Weaver notched 13 game-winners, including two this season, which ranks third in program history. Her nine multi-goal games ranks second all-time among Coug scorers.

While Weaver was the star, Gomera-Stevens was the x-factor for the Cougars throughout the year earning her an invite to the national team camp for the first time in her career. The junior midfielder was arguably the Cougars' best player in the postseason as she controlled the middle of the pitch for WSU on both ends of the field. The native Hawaiian came up biggest in pressure situations scoring four of her team-best five game-winners against the nation's best. Her first game-winner handed the previously unbeaten Beavers of Oregon State their first loss of the season. She would later go on to nab a golden goal on the road against No. 20 Cal. In the postseason, Gomera-Stevens took it up another notch scoring game-winners against No. 14 Memphis in the first round and again against West Virginia to send the Cougs to the Elite Eight for the first time in program history. In addition, she would tally an assist on the opening strike against No. 3 Virginia in arguably the biggest win in program history. She would finish off her career year with five goals (tied for third-most on the team) and five assists (tied for second-most on the team). Gomera-Stevens becomes just the second player from Hawaii to earn a senior call-up following Natasha Kai.

The captain of the Cougars' defense, Minniss proved herself among the nation's best to earn her first call up in the national team system. A team that relied on winning tight games, Minniss and the Cougars' earned 10 shutouts on the year while going an impressive 10-5 in one-goal games. In 24 total contests, the Cougars allowed one goal or fewer in 15 games and were an impressive 3-0-1 in overtime affairs. In the postseason, the Cougs earned three shutouts with none bigger than a 1-0, overtime, win over No. 5 South Carolina to advance to the College Cup. It was Minniss that won the game for the Cougars in Columbia as she notched her first and only goal of the season on a 96th minute corner kick in the first overtime.