Daniel Bartel/isiphotos.com Alyssa Mautz has been with the Red Stars since 2012, back when the team was part of the Women’s Premier Soccer League Elite, a year before the National Women’s Soccer League was born. The NWSL is the third attempt at a professional women’s soccer league in America and has grown from its humble beginning. “The first year, we didn’t even have a locker room,” Mautz said. “We were in a basement. We didn’t have showers or anything.” Back in those days, the Red Stars played home games at Benedictine University in Lisle.