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Anyone have any info on when the SCHSL is going to sanction girl's lacrosse?

I've heard that you need 16 schools with school-supported varsity programs before the state will recognize/sanction the sport.

Do you think the SCHSL would consider making this a fall sport? We already have girls track, soccer and softball in the spring......how many more team sports can we support during the spring season?

Boys and Girls Soccer should follow college and the majority of other states and be a fall sport. Lacrosse is up and coming and could become a spring sport for boys and girls.

Any sport that requires a large playing area (i.e. lacrosse, soccer, rugby, etc.)will never get the fields in the fall season because of football. The majority of the HS matches I ref are played on the football field. Would love to see lacrosse be sanctioned by SCHSL.

Would be nice, but as mentioned, facilities are a big problem. Football takes up every inch of grass in the fall at most schools, and I agree with Hurst that it would be hard to field yet another girls' sports team in the spring.

Fall would be great, but for schools not lucky enough to have practice and playing facilities separate from football, I just don't see how it's practical to move soccer to the fall. It would be easier to find space around football for a girls' lacrosse team than to find it for girls and boys varsity and JV soccer teams at the same time.

Kinda sad...we can recruit the players, we can raise the money for equipment, but so many things are foiled by a simple little thing like a patch of grass to play on...

We don't make room for it...Two new schools opening up next fall and the football fields are already in place with room to the side for soccer...If you can plan for a football field..why not make plans for a soccer field.

Good point...I'm not even sure if Cane Bay will even be offering soccer initially. The newer schools with the room to spare do have the option to plan their space around the sport (whether it be soccer or lacrosse--sorry about the thread-jacking, Hurst!).

What I'm concerned about most, though, is the established schools that simply don't have the options. I'd hate to see a decision made about choosing a season that would make soccer more of an "elite-only" sport where only the schools with the money and room for separate facilities could practically field teams. At least the way it is, schools who have no choice but to share fields with football at least have that option; putting both in the same fall season would take away that opportunity and, I'm afraid, squeeze a number of schools right out of the sport.

Sure, the highly competitive soccer schools would find a way, if they don't already have one...but I think the players at the other non-soccer-intensive schools who just enjoy coming out and playing the game should have the opportunity as well, regardless of whether their schools can afford a separate soccer facility.

I believe most Greenville county schools have both boys and girls Lacrosse programs today and this is having an impact on scheduling the fields. I noticed at the Mauldin Cup last weekend the field was marked for soccer and Lacrosse. The field is not in bad shape but you can see bare spots from all the sports being played on the field. But their baseball field is in perfect condition.

One you get to the smaller AAA schools, the stretching of numbers especially in girls makes it very hard to field competitive teams. If girls in the area play club soccer instead of high school, it makes it even harder.