Nobody believes they have the ability to recruit with UCLA or UCLA, or even USC.
They attract a certain type of student athlete. They dont play in the Pac-12 and they dont have the bright lights and bells and whistles.
This is a small, Christian based school that gets top professors with classes that average 20 to thirty kids in many classes.
There are great benefits for young women lucky enough to go to Pepperdine.
As far as soccer goes, the program has the small school benefits on a beautiful campus, with the opportunity to play the best teams in the country, year in and year out.
They do well with the players who do fit the mold.
Instead of having National team players from top to bottom like Stanford and UCLA, they get a few of those, mixed with other talent passed over by the Big Dogs. (who understand and fit with what Pepperdine offers)
Overall the program is on the rise.
It has won back to back league championships for the first time in program history, and will continue to be a force in the WCC from now on.
Tough start this season?, yeah.