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Along with developing techniques such as juggling, dribbling, turns, foot skills and mental habits on and off the field, each athlete received a CL10-themed T-shirt, drawstring bag and an autographed photo of Lloyd, who is from Delran, Burlington County, and played at Rutgers University.

Lloyd called the parents over to thank them for bringing their kids. She told them to encourage the boys and girls to keep working on the drills and that it was nice to have some normalcy during this unique year.

CL10 has had camps across New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and one in California since about 2008.

Lizette Slimm and her husband, Bill, traveled from Nazarareth, Pennsylvania, to bring their daughter Lily, 12, to the camp.

“My daughter is completely inspired by Carli Lloyd,” said Lizette, who noted her daughter was giving her thumbs-up from the field to indicate she was enjoying herself. “We wanted to give her this opportunity. … She is super excited to be here, and so are we.”

Five years ago today in Vancouver she scaled heights of achievement unparalleled in the sport. Within 15 minutes, 5 seconds of the World Cup Final, Lloyd had scored a hat-trick which not only destroyed her Japanese opponents and secured the United States their third world title but secured her immortality in the history of the game's greatest showpiece.

 

 

In some ways, the global shutdown during the coronavirus has been a huge change for Lloyd. She’s cooking a lot at home for the first time, she said, and has enjoyed executing new recipes with her husband, Brian Hollins, in the kitchen and in their grill and smoker. But in other ways this stretch has been Classic Carli, allowing her to take her usual punishing workouts and make them even harder.

“Now, as life has closed down, I’ve gotten to re-shift my whole mentality as far as building up my endurance and my technique again,” she said of her workouts in her native New Jersey. “I look at it as another year to get better. Hopefully, I’m going to look back at this moment if I make the team and everything for Tokyo next year and treasure this moment because I’m getting so much out of it and it’s just amazing to be able to have this time.”

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