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It's crazy that an all-star games has kids in which "many of whom will never play a minute of college soccer." Either South Carolina clubs aint getting it done producing female players or kids are just tired of soccer that much. I'm guessing the former......but folks will profess the latter.



It really appears to be both. SC Clubs are for the most part (especially on the girls side) not producing any big time college players, but also, I have seen over the past few years many very good players either stop playing Club altogether (or many that want to) and I am talking about Premier, Challenge and Classic players. The usual reason- tired of the travel and every weekend games.

A good case in point- CESA 92, had barely enough to field a U18 team this season. Lost basically the entire Challenge team (from U17-U18) and quite a few Premier players.



2010 Final Women's Top 25
-- First-place votes in parentheses --


Rank School Record Pts LW
1 Notre Dame (16) 21-2-2 400 7
2 Stanford 23-1-2 384 1
3 Boston College 17-7-1 350 10
4 North Carolina 19-3-2 325 4
5 Ohio State 17-5-2 311 18t
6 Oklahoma State 20-4-2 304 8
7 Portland 19-1-2 297 2
8 Florida State 16-6-1 275 11
9 Virginia 15-5-2 269 6
10 Maryland 18-2-3 259 4
11 Florida 19-2-3 225 5
12 Marquette 16-5-3 210 12
13 Georgetown 15-7-2 177 nr
14 California-Irvine 19-3-2 174 18t
15 Washington 13-9-2 170 nr
16 West Virginia 18-5-1 168 16
17 Texas A&M 15-5-3 128 9
18 Oregon State 16-4-1 115 15
19 Minnesota 14-6-3 102 nr
20 South Carolina 15-6-4 96 13
21 UCLA 13-8-2 89 24
22 Wake Forest 13-8-3 85 14
23 Santa Clara 13-7-2 72 21
24 Duke 11-8-4 65 nr
25 (tie) Brigham Young 16-3-3 45 17
25 (tie) Southern California 13-6-3 45 22

That is your list of 2010 Women's College Top 25.
While there is absolutely nothing wrong with the schools listed in this thread that the young ladies will be playing at, by my definition "Big Time" would include many of the above Top 25.

Occasionally this state will send someone to a USC or Clemson, but it is not on a consistent basis sending players to "Big Time" soccer schools? Why? High School football is sending players to "Big Time" college football schools. Basketball is doing it. Baseball is doing it. Golf is doing it. Again- Why?