Thursday wound up being a monumental day for Stanford women's soccer star Catarina Macario in more ways than one.
Hours after her first call-up to a senior U.S. women's national team camp, the Brazil-born attacking dynamo received word that one of the biggest hurdles to making her eligible to play in official competitions for the U.S. had been cleared: She's now a U.S. citizen.
Macario, who came to the U.S. in 2012 with her family and has gone on to be a prolific part of Stanford's national championship teams, is now one giant step closer to bringing her attacking talents to the international stage with the four-time World Cup champions.