I must agree with Dexter. The thought of parents paying that much money per year so their child can play on a championship high school team is absurd. The students are sent to schools such as Christ Church and BE to get a quality education. Tomeck did not get a schoarship from Duke for his participation on the CC team. His club experience got him to where he is. If parents are concerned with their child's participation on premier teams they will probably focus on what club the child is playing at and not what school they attend. Don't you think that if parents were that interested in high school soccer that they would move to Wando's,Irmo's, or Greenville's zoned areas. It would be way more cost efficient than to pay large sums of money to attend a private school (just for soccer)and they would be playing on 3A and 4A championship teams.
There are some problems with the theory of moving private schools up in classification due to their success in soccer. First, are you that egotistical to think that only soccer matters in high school sports? Luckily, the SCHSL does not share the opinion that schools should be catagorized by success in one sport since that sport would probably be football. Then, schools such as BE would be moved DOWN to 1A. Second, the private schools are at an advantage due to the large geographical area which they can draw from so they should be moved up to 3A or 4A. This notion would mean that rural schools should be forced to play in 3A and 4A. Lamar and Timmonsville would be 4A schools????? Irmo would probably be a 2A or 3A school??? You can not set classifications by these factors since density of the populations are not taken into account and would be to difficult to accurately measure the density of school age children in a particular geographical area.. The SCHSL has set aside rules and regulations for ALL schools who compete. CC and BE compete by these rules (of which dictates that enrollment will determine classification and not success in ONE sport).