Having a short offseason usually means your team made a deep playoff run at the end of the previous season. That's exactly what happened for the Tampa Bay Sun FC. They won the inaugural Super League Cup on June 14. They celebrated in style with a boat parade and trophy ceremony along the Hillsborough River. One player who missed the festivities was forward Sydny Nasello.

The MVP of the championship game was on her way to Guyana, South America, for a mission trip with her mother.

"It was super cool," the Land O' Lakes native said with a smile. "We got to hang out with a lot of kids. Growing our faith together, teach them a relationship with God. Pray for anything that they needed, any struggles that they were going through. I got to play soccer with them, which was so cool, my favorite pa

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