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Lia Shendel is going to be a player to watch in the next few years. She has a lot of potential. I have seen her on occation and she plays the game with the composure of a veteran player. With a few more years under her belt, many of the posts under this topic will mention her name.

Interesting subject. A couple of comments. SC has several very good college teams. However to compete with the elite schools on a national level (UNC, Portand, Santa Clara, and others)it can not be done at this time with South Carolina talent. We have a ways to go there. It's not to say that SC hasn't produced good players, but rather SC has not produced many elite players compared to other states for various reasons (size of SC's soccer population being a big reason).

As far as I'm concerned, the best female player in this state is Lindsey Beam from Riverside. I believe she trains with a professional team from Charlotte during the summer as well. From all the reports the last couple of years, she's headed to the University of North Carolina after graduating in 2004.

ColaFan,
I don't know where Lindsey is headed, but I think Anson Dorrance would agree with your opinion of her. He called her the "real deal" in a newspaper article earlier this year.

BLJ

Lindsey Beam is the best in the state right now.
she played with the Charllote Eagles over the summer/ I dont think any high school age soccer player has acomplished that yet. I think she is 16?

Abby Nicolaus From Wando. Excellent Player. Outstanding. Great foot work, ball control, vision, shooting, all around great player for Wando. Also Wando has outstanding players all around. For example most of the U-17 Ice Won states this year for 4th or 5th time.

Where did Abi Nicholas play club ball this past fall? Both she and Lou Hudson were on the SCSoccer.com Girl's Class 4A All-State team last year while Kelly McGinty made the SCSoccer's Super 18 (best 18 overall in the state). Looks like Wando should be very tough again this year. They had, I thought, the best quality team play I saw last year. Did Wando lose much?

lpaf

Lindsey Beam is by far the best in the state this year. She has been recruited by top college teams across the nation including North Carolina and Santa Clara. What other high school player can make that claim??? She is also a great student and is a Junior, but will graduate this year. She has been on State Championship club teams year after year and competed at the ODP National level. How can there be any question as to her ranking and if there is anyone else as good as her in SC girls soccer?

just so you know Beam and Abi are both on the same club team and both are great players. They play for GFC 84' Black.