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lpaf - enjoyed the Wando stuff. Glad to see you back and involved again this year.

lapf -

Claire Wigfall graduated from Wando in 2001. She was the 2000 SC player of the year when Wando won the state championship. She is the fourth all time leader in points for College of Charleston after completing her career there in 2004.

Here is the link to career statistics for CofC:
http://cougars.cofc.edu/womens/soccer/histcarr.htm#C0scoring

And an old bio for Claire:
http://cougars.cofc.edu/womens/soccer/players/wigfallc.html

Unfortunately, I can't think of a more recent example of an African-American making an impact on Wando's team. However, Claire Wigfall does fall into your five year time period.

fan1 --

Claire Wigfall was a great player both at Wando and later C of C, and she, to my knowledge was the last African American player on the Wando Varsity.

But if you count the years she falls outside the 5 year line (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006).

lpaf, Wando is......Wando. Preseason favorites to win it all and if you keep giving them the business, I'm sure they will rally behind the cause. Don't fuel the fire. Look at Dutch Fork. Those girls have an axe to grind and nobody wants to play them right now. Lay off Wando before you wake the sleeping giant.

By the way, my daughter played against a Charleston United U-12 girls team on Saturday. Great team with four or five African American players who will surely improve through high school. Hats off to CU for reaching out and developing these young ladies into good players.

H66 --

Thanks for the advice. I didn't really intend to focus on the lack of minority players on the Wando team, but after a short discourse on Wando as a black hole of the 4A soccer poll I thought some kind of disclaimer was needed.

Is their any hope on Junior Varsity? What's the high school ratio?

Reggae, the sole win Fort Dorchester hangs their hat on is James Island. It seems JI wasn't clicking on all cylinders then as they are now. It happens. Coach makes some changes and BOOM the team is on fire. The opposite can happen as well. D.W. Daniel lost their stud and are struggling and will continue to struggle the rest of the season. Teams get streaky.

Other than that, what has Fort D done? I mean, they lost to 4-9 Stratford. They're 8-5 and have been outscored 26-2 in their losses.

T.L. Hanna is a team that should be ranked ahead of them. They're 9-3 while being outscored 5-9 in their losses. They've lost to #5 Dorman by 2, #4 Emerald in pks, and #11 Daniel by 2...and had already beat them earlier in the year.

Its all a matter of opinion and I respect yours and those that configure the rankings. What say you, man? [/QB][/QUOTE]

WA
First of all JI gave FD nothing they were out played and outscored so save the excuses if u knew any thing about FD U would have known that we are struggling with lots of injuries recently which is why we are not at full force at the moment. as I stated in a previous post if u dont score ur chances u wont win games and we simply did not and therefore in startfords case the ugly win was better than the pretty loss. But in any event the show must go on and we are woking around those setbacks and we will seE what the near future holds for the FD Reggae Girls.

Best of luck to u and UR team.

I'm willing to bet JI beats Fort D 4 out of 5 times. It's good to get that W no matter what the odds. I'm not meaning to sound rude about the "Reggae Girls", just that I don't think they're top 15 material.

After reading the "Black Hole/White Hole" scenerio, and being an employee of Charleston County School District, I wanted to point out a few things about Wando.

First, the girls program that feeds Wando is primarily Mt. Pleasant Soccer Club. This club focuses on skills and girls, and if you can afford the fees your children will play there. I guess that goes for any club player, it all comes down to $$$. Furthermore, after recently reviewing statistics on minorities in the Chas district there is a huge disparity between earning potential of whites vs. African Americans thus impacting the amount of cash people have to use on sports/training for their kids. That said, kids that have had the training prior to High School are going to fare better at tryouts. Is it different in any other part of the state? Is it therefore Wando High School's fault that they have an all white team??? What about Summerville, Stratford or any other school? I think bringing the whole race card up was in poor taste.

However, in fairness to your points I do believe Wando does get preferential treatment in many things. They are treated different in the Chas district. Noone Messes With Their Principal. You just don't want to fight that battle. She is empowered, and passionate about her school academics, athetics and her "queendom". So if they have an advantage it is her and her vision for the future. Everything just falls in afterwards. They are one of the lucky schools in SC.

Reggaeboy --

It's a play in 3 acts, with each act becoming more important. What happens in preseason and non conference play is least important and most unpredictable. Then comes region play which determines seeding for playoffs. Then the final act is playoffs. Last man standing wins, everything else is just preliminaries.