Coach Ray Godwin at TR is a first class guy. As our team at Blue Ridge was beginning to build two years back, we beat them in a scrimmage. He has the class to talk to our entire team and tell them that "something had changed at Blue Ridge - that wasn't Blue Ridge soccer I was watching!" Made a HUGE impression on my young ladies, and probably won us about four games that year.
World class guy, whose daughter graduated and is playing at Erskine I believe, and he is still coaching. That's pretty cool in my book.
Oh, yeah, that love fest between World Cup and TR might be due to the coaching tandem at Foothills this summer and the success their teams had. Won State Challenge Cup I think. My kids love Coach Raimond and Coach Ray - and they should.