North­ern Col­orado Hail­storm FC an­nounced that T&T’s Noah Pow­der has been re-signed for 2024, pend­ing League and Fed­er­a­tion ap­proval.

Pow­der joined Hail­storm in June and played in 20 match­es last sea­son. He scored three goals and pro­vid­ed five as­sists, which tied for sec­ond on the team.

“We knew he had qual­i­ty when he came in, but it took him a cou­ple of months to get go­ing. Once he did, he was fan­tas­tic, took us up an­oth­er lev­el,” Hail­storm head coach Éa­mon Za­yed said.

Capped 16 times by T&T, Pow­der brings ex­pe­ri­ence in both US Ma­jor League Soc­cer and the Unit­ed Soc­cer League Cham­pi­onship along with his stand­out per­for­mances for Hail­storm in 2023.

His goal from dis­tance against Char­lotte In­de­pen­dence in a 4-2 Hail­storm win was nom­i­nat­ed for the USL League One Goal of the Year.

Af­ter be­ing knocked out in the USL League One semi­fi­nals last sea­son, Pow­der is back in 2024 with just one thing on his mind.

“Be­come a cham­pi­on. That should be the goal for all of us,” Pow­der said.

At Hail­storm, Pow­der will be joined by T&T at­tack­ing mid­field­er Re­al Gill who of­fi­cial­ly signed for the club last month, pend­ing Unit­ed Soc­cer League (USL) and US Soc­cer Fed­er­a­tion ap­proval.

The six-times capped T&T in­ter­na­tion­al Gill, 20, who cur­rent­ly plies his trade with T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League tier one team Tiger Tanks Club San­do, ex­pressed ela­tion with his up­ward move. He wants to cap­i­talise on this new op­por­tu­ni­ty to grow and im­prove as a pro foot­baller.

“This is just the start of my de­vel­op­ment and I just want to say that I’m very glad to get the chance to go build and make a bet­ter name for my­self. I view this sign­ing as a point of no turn­ing back and a chance to make a big­ger im­pact for my fam­i­ly and me,” Gill said.

Hodge is to re­turn to Hart­ford Ath­let­ic for the 2024 sea­son

Na­tion­al de­fend­er Tris­ton Hodge will re­turn to the Hart­ford Ath­let­ic for the 2024 sea­son in the Unit­ed Soc­cer League Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion.

The 29-year-old Hodge re­turns to Hart­ford af­ter a qual­i­ty 2023 sea­son with the Green and Blue.

He was one of the team’s most re­li­able de­fend­ers across 24 ap­pear­ances, win­ning 28 tack­les, 121 du­els, and swip­ing 26 in­ter­cep­tions. He al­so played for head coach and Gen­er­al Man­ag­er Bren­dan Burke in 2020 and 2021 with Col­orado Springs, mak­ing 19 ap­pear­ances and help­ing the Switch­backs to a play­off berth.

“I’m hap­py to be back in Hart­ford and to be a part of this com­pet­i­tive de­fen­sive unit,” said Hodge. “Through the first few weeks of pre­sea­son, Coach Burke has pushed us and set a high stan­dard for our team. I am ex­cit­ed to see us con­tin­ue to im­prove and get clos­er as a group as we push to get this club back to the play­offs.”

“Tris­ton is a great de­fen­sive pres­ence with im­pres­sive ex­pe­ri­ence both in the USL and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly,” said Burke.

“He is a tech­ni­cal­ly sound de­fend­er, gets in­to the at­tack quick­ly, and will be a vet­er­an pres­ence in our back line.”

In­ter­na­tion­al­ly, he has nine caps for the se­nior na­tion­al team, most re­cent­ly com­pet­ing in the 2023 CON­CA­CAF Gold Cup for his coun­try. In 2017, Hodge played in the So­ca War­riors’ 2-1 win over the USA in the World Cup qual­i­fiers.