coldhardtruth: I would tend to agree with you. What's interesting is that the Columbia area had a club, CFC, which was intended to be an elite girls-only club. After a "merger" with CSC it seemed to get swallowed into CSC and while there have been some very good teams, there hasn't seemed to be an across-the-board focus on the girls program that you see at the clubs you name.
At this point, it seems that the best/only hope for the midlands is to see how much focus and how many resources are devoted to the girls side in the new CUFC club and how the merger is actually operationalized.
Then again, maybe it's time again for an elite girls-only club in the Columbia area...