>> [thomaspietras] My own opinion is that soccer players are soccer players and as long as a club focuses on serving soccer players, the gender issue will be irrelevant.<<
I don't have the data on the boys side, but it appears antecdotally that midlands boys soccer is much more competitive than midlands girls soccer from the standpoint of both challenge cup finalists as well as division I recruiting. Certainly the Aiken Fire, and a few strong boys teams at CSC, have helped in this. If you look at region pool lists, you can see much more success for midland area boys than girls.
To what then do you attribute the dismal record of midlands girls club youth soccer in not only state challenge cup finalists since 1998 but in division I college recruiting and retention in the last 4-6 years?
If nothing changes, how do you expect to change these results?
