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In viewing the girls' 1992 rosters for the winter interregionals there are no South Carolina girls listed, although, the region coach is a college coach from South Carolina. It does have several girls from Georgia that will be attending college in South Carolina listed who have not attended an event like this before. My question is this: with a region coach from South Carolina not rostering any SC players for an event like this...does a sandlapper really have a chance? There are several 1992 South Carolina players that are going to play at ACC and SEC schools (I am sure there are other conferences, too) that should have been invited to this event. Another note: I am not sure, but, have heard that if you are a Georgia resident and you attend a state supported school in GA, you can get much of your higher education paid for (from lottery money)...there must be very enticing offers from South Carolina schools for a Georgia player to come to our state.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but on the men's side (and I really don't know about the women's programs) and you live in Georgia, I believe you'll have to leave the state if you want to play soccer at a D1 school (i.e., Georgia has no men's D1 soccer programs - again, not sure about women). If I am correct, that seems to me to be some level of enticement right there.

Georgia Southern is D1, but I'm pretty sure that's the only one in the state.

Okay, I was off by one, but the one being Georgia Southern is even more reason to come to South Carolina to play soccer.

UGA has a girls team...defeated USC 2-1 during regular season this year.

*side note UGA has no boys team.

I believe Mercer and Georgia State also have D1 men's programs.

In viewing the girls' 1992 rosters for the winter interregionals there are no South Carolina girls listed, although, the region coach is a college coach from South Carolina. My question is this: with a region coach from South Carolina not rostering any SC players for an event like this...does a sandlapper really have a chance? There are several 1992 South Carolina players that are going to play at ACC and SEC schools (other conferences, too) that should have been invited to this event.

Many of them may have either 1. opted not to participate in ODP or 2. opted not to go to inter regionals.

Of the dozen or so U-18 girls that I know who are going on to play at a college not a single one has participated in ODP in several years.

On the other hand if they are on the ODP squad and have already chosen a college why spend the money to go to inter regionals? If your goal is to make the national squad someday and you are not already being invited to training camp, your best bet (at this age) is to preform well at the collegiate level.

Just one opinion

There is a conflict with college coaches in the odp mix selecting players for regional pools/teams. and its not always the best player from SC getting a spot.

Happy New Year all!
In my experience working with our Arsenal club girls and some from South Aiken, it was a real mixed bag. The three girls from last year's U18/19 Arsenal club and SAHS who went D1 gave up SC ODP when they were 14 or 15 because of the politics and they just felt they did not get that much from it. However, this year's SAHS players that will probably go D1 next year all, I think, participate in ODP and have for years. For my daughter's D1 team, many of the players participated in ODP at the national and regional level, yet some did not, concentrating on advanced club ball. My observation is that it has to do more with market size and club involvement, both of which are directly related to the internal ODP politics.