madcow
SILVER ELITE
Thank you. We have been following your daughter all season. Quite the impact her freshman year! You know, she is still age eligible if she wanted to play for an ECNL team this spring
2016-1017 GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER THREAD
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Thank you. We have been following your daughter all season. Quite the impact her freshman year! You know, she is still age eligible if she wanted to play for an ECNL team this spring
Thanks for the kind words. She really likes her coach, the team and most importantly school. At times the demands of having to be a "grown up" gets to her but it's part of the process. I think that the best advice that I can give anyone with a high level senior player moving on to play in college would be to not let them slack off their senior year in the classroom or on the field. That last few months of effort makes all of the difference. We are still trying to figure out what to do with her this spring. I think that she will play WPSL. If her schedule permits I'm sure she would like to try and win an ECNL title. I will speak to her about it. It will depend upon her spring schedule and YNT camp schedule but I will talk to her about it. Again good luck to your daughter. She is one of the sweetest kids I have ever had the privilege to meet.
CaliKlines
Well-Known Member
We haven't played YL yet this season...seems like they usually have a pretty good side with alot of better club players. EHS is hoping to repeat as Excaliber Champions, but so many good high school programs are in attendance. It will be tremendously difficult.
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Edison will be there but short handed.
I know a team that would love to have her ;-)
It won't matter later
SILVER
Excalibur field is so tough this year - it is going to be a great group of games.
It won't matter later
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Schedules don't get finalized until the Mater Dei tournament ends.
Zerodenero
GOLD
Recovering from ACL surgery. Great player, missed on all fronts.
MakeAPlay
DA
That sucks. I am sorry to hear it. Good that she is a junior. Thanks for the info ZD.
f1nfutbol fan
SILVER
i witnessed a new low in sportsmanship from the el cajon jv team today.
As the girls were lining up to shake hands after the game, most of the el cajon jv team spit in their hands prior to the hand shake
stay classy el cajon!
As the girls were lining up to shake hands after the game, most of the el cajon jv team spit in their hands prior to the hand shake
stay classy el cajon!
Bdobyns
SILVER ELITE
That is why they are JV.i witnessed a new low in sportsmanship from the el cajon jv team today.
As the girls were lining up to shake hands after the game, most of the el cajon jv team spit in their hands prior to the hand shake
stay classy el cajon!
MakeAPlay
DA
Or because they aren't very good. I watched a JV game once while waiting for the varsity game to start. Let's just say I have seen better soccer at U9 in club.
f1nfutbol fan
SILVER
?? So if your not playing varsity it's okay to do such? I disagree.
This. For most of the 2nd half, the girls weren't allowed to score & simply passed the ball around for 25 minutes. I guess E.C. felt more humiliated made to run/chase a ball after a 9-0 scoreline vs simply being hammered.
That could be said about a few of the varsity teams I watched....maybe more like U11.
MakeAPlay
DA
Hey I agree with you that behavior is absolutely horrible. All that I am saying is loser coaching leads to loser attitude leads to loser behavior. And HS soccer is a grab bag or as Forrest Gump put it, "it's a box of chocolates, you never know what you are gonna get."
Bdobyns
SILVER ELITE
Didn't say that but thanks for assuming. For the most part, JV teams lack what the varsity teams have. Where is El Cajon? Isn't in the Grossmont district? Maybe that is just how things are done down there? Maybe that is El Cajon classy? The kids and the coaches (teachers) know it happens, the parents know it happens. Know what happens when you put new uniforms and cleats on a pig? Its still a pig.
baldref
GOLD
after a string of ignorance, there's this gem.
GunninGopher
SILVER ELITE
This isn't a specific response about what the OP alleges to have seen after the game, but in response to questioning about the school. Maybe I can help reduce some ignorance. I didn't go to that school, but grew up and live in the area.
El Cajon Valley HS is in the center of the City of El Cajon, in San Diego's East County. It is in the Grossmont League, if that matters. The school district has a broad spectrum of demographics, ranging from densely urban to very rural, with family incomes ranging across the board. The school itself is in an area that has had a dramatic change in demographics over the last 20 years. I suppose the school's immediately surrounding community would be referred to as "low income". There is a lot of high density housing. It has seen a large influx of refugees and immigrants from areas of conflict. Many of the kids that go to that school are happy just to be able to attend school and play a sport without worrying about being killed. Their life experience is far different than my daughter's, or probably almost anyone else's that is on this forum. There is no excuse for what was alleged to have happened, but I thought it might help to know who is being talked about.
There is a soccer club (Yalla) based at the Boys and Girls club about 1/4 mile from the HS. I'm sure that many of their players go to El Cajon Valley HS. Yalla has a mission to provide soccer opportunities to the immigrant/refugee youth in the community. I refereed a BU16 game of theirs. Aside from normal teenage boys stuff that you get from all games in that group, the Yalla team was the most respectful to me that I have encountered at that age. These kids get very little parental support from what little I have seen of their games. I suspect that what parent's they do have here are working hard just trying to get by in a strange land.
f1nfutbol fan
SILVER
There were more bodies on the bench, than in the stands for the home side. no joke.
Regardless of your demographics, you treat others with respect / as you would like to be treated, period.
I grew up in los angeles, so i've seen some crazy $hit, but that isnt how our household rolls.
After saying all that, all teams that i watched tackled fairly. I was expecting much worse, from reading old threads about HS soccer conduct in jv/fresh.