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Cradle:
I attended your match on friday and your team had a 1-0 lead going into halftime if I remember correctly. I thought Woodruff played a nice match. You have a quality coach, quality players and the most loyal fans of the weekend in terms of size. How did affluence play a roll in your loss? Seems to me your girls ran out of gas. Anyway, congratulations on a fine season. and lookout for #9 next year.
It didn't. BE outperformed WHS over the entire match and won. No excuses or complaints. Fair and clean and well deserved win by BE. Not my point at all.
My point has absolutely nothing to do with a single match. Woodruff's success over the past 6 or 7 years has come from the program incorporating many of the elements correlated with the advantages of affluence into a school program that has allowed Woodruff to compete fairly equally with all teams in AA/A despite the inequities of affluence and attendance areas. That fact does not erase the broad inequities, but it does highlight those elements needed to be successful at a high level.
A coach or school cannot magically change the affluence of a school, but they can build a commitment to the program needed to be successful.
"Living well's the best revenge." r.e.m.
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