I also want to reiterate again that working hard and having skill does not always translate to getting an opportunity. The girls game is a totally different monster from the boys. From my observation (and from what a coach actually told me), the boys coaches will take a bigger, stronger, faster player. I know of one coach that I believe will be sorry once the season starts to find out that after 5-6 years of travel soccer by certain players, he is not the magician that other coaches could not be and that he will not be able to make these guys 1. better players 2. harder working players and 3. more dedicated players.