Latsko did score for the Reign in the Challenge Cup, where she started all seven of the club’s appearances, notching her first OL goal against Angel City FC. She’s still looking for her first goal for the Reign in regular-season play. Since her arrival in the Seattle area, Latsko has started eight of her 11 appearances, totaling 609 minutes. At the end of the day, I wanted to take that risk.” “I really needed something like OL Reign to get me out of my comfort zone, get to a new city where I don’t know anyone, I don’t know the team and see how much I can grow as a person and a player. At the end of the day, I was like, ‘Well, I could easily finish my career in Houston and be happy,’ but I would also wonder what else there is, what else I could do and how far I could be pushed. I talked to my friends, my boyfriend, my parents, and all of them were really supportive in what I was deciding. It was very difficult deciding whether to stay or leave and try something else. “It was very much a home for me for four years.
“In Houston, I loved the team, the city,” Latsko said. The move was one that she needed, she told PSN, because she needed to be pushed out of her comfort zone. In her fifth year in the National Women’s Soccer League, Latsko decided to journey away from the Houston Dash, where she spent four seasons previously and who she won the first-ever NWSL Challenge Cup with. I feel like I’m going through an identity crisis… I am forever ‘Ronnie on the Reign.’”ĭespite the new and unwelcome nickname, Latsko has settled in well with OL Reign. Laura and Sam told me that’s my name, and I’m stuck with it. “So when I got there, I told them everyone calls me, ‘V.’ And then all of a sudden the name ‘Ronnie’ got thrown out, and I detest that name. “There’s a lot of one-syllable names that sound like ‘V,'” Latsko explained to Pittsburgh Soccer Now. Latsko, who hails from Pittsburgh - specifically Venetia - and played high school soccer at Peters Township, grew up being called her given name and ‘V.’ However, that changed whenever she joined OL Reign this past offseason. Veronica Latsko grew up “detesting” the nickname ‘Ronnie.”
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