[NATIONAL ELITE PREP SHOWCASE] Flower Mound Marcus, Southlake Carroll and Keller, all Texas teams, were the only teams to win all four games at the NationalElite Prep Showcase. Perhaps the biggest surprise of the weekend was Marcus’ 2-0 win over Ursuline Academy of Dallas, which entered the game at 13-0-0. KatelynMountjoy and Baylee Mitchell scored […]
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2011 NSCAA High School Girls All-America Team
[AWARDS] Ashley Spivey of Baltimore’s McDonough School earned honors for the third consecutive year on the 2011 NSCAAHigh School Girls All-America Team. Twelve other players earned their second selection. For the complete All-America Team … *Repeat selection. Note: All-American team includes players whose schools play spring seasons and are now in college. Goalkeepers Lindsey Harris […]
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Tackling gay issues in sports
Interview by Mike Woitalla The hardships faced by gay teens inspired the coming-out of former University of North Carolina star David Testo after nearlya decade of pro soccer in MLS, the USL and NASL. We contacted longtime soccer coach and journalist Dan Woog, the author of five books on gay and lesbian issues, to comment […]
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Cosmos cash; U-17s on TV; High school rules; MLS teens
By Mike Woitalla The reincarnated New York Cosmos appear to be recommitting to their relationship with Queens club Blau-Weis Gottschee,which had filed a lawsuit against the Cosmos on Nov. 3 after not receiving a promised payment, reports Michael Lewis of The Cosmos, who last August pulled the plug on their Southern California-based CosmosAcademy West, have […]
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How goalkeeper coaches can help keepers read the game
By Tim Mulqueen The goalkeeper coach, or the person filling that role, oversees every aspect of the goalkeepers training. This means running the keeper drills andsuggesting strategies as well as overseeing the keepers’ interaction with the rest of the team. The more involved the goalkeeper coach is, the better he can guide the goalkeepers’development and […]
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Club vs. High School conflict heats up (A view from the NSCAA)
Interview by Mike Woitalla More than a third of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America’s 30,000-plus members are high school coaches. So we spoke withNSCAA CEO Joe Cummings about the tug-of-war for players between high schools and elite clubs, who often urge their players to skip scholastic ball. The conflict intensified when theU.S. Soccer […]
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Game-fixing; Turf wars; Silly ref gesture; case for school ball
By Mike Woitalla THE FIX WAS IN. The coach of an Omaha FC U-13 girls team resigned after it was revealed heinstructed his team to allow the opponents, a team from the same club, to score the game-winning goal that would send them to the state final. MarjieDucey of the Omaha World-Herald reported that Coach […]
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The high-school dilemma; Fair play or not?
By Mike Woitalla HIGH SCHOOL VS. CLUB. One of the most unfortunate aspects of American youth soccer is forcing kids to choose between club soccer andhigh school ball. For sure, in many cases it’s not an either-or, but the pressure on the very elite players, especially those in the U.S. Soccer Development Academy, to skip […]
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Sleep well, play well (The teenager's challenge)
By Dev K. Mishra, M.D. I’m sure anyone who’s raised an adolescent or teenager can attest to the idea that teenagers don’t get as much sleep as they need. For the adolescent or teenager a number of outside influences take place: more demands on time for homework, socializing, sports, music, or any number of other […]
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'Whether boys or girls: be consistent, send clear message'
Interview by Mike Woitalla A youth coach for nearly three decades, Theresa Echtermeyer is a director of coaching with Colorado United and also coachesthe Mountain Vista High School boys and girls teams. She is a National Staff Coach and Instructor for the NSCAA. Echtermeyer spoke to us for the Youth Soccer Insider’s ongoing interview series […]