All invited players are requested to confirm their participation by completing the form located here. If you have a Facebook profile, please add yourself to the Event I have set up there.
The 5th Annual Boys game will be played on Monday June 15th at 6:00 pm. The boys roster was announced on December 19, 2008. There were 38 players invited from 21 schools. 4 players from Class 1, 5 players from Class 2 and 29 players from Class 3. 10 of the players are All-State.
The 4th Annual Girls game will be played on Monday June 15th at 8:00 pm. The girls roster was announced on May 21st. Of the 38 players invited to play, 7 are from Class 1 programs, 6 from Class 2 programs and 25 from Class 3. 14 have signed to play College Soccer, including two at the D1 level – Amanda Dominguez (Kickapoo) at Arkansas and Jody McFarlen (Bolivar) at Missouri State.
For players and fans, we will be using Twitter before and during the game to send out notices such as possible weather delays or other related items. The Twitter account you want to follow is @SGFsoccer and it will work with any phone that also supports Text messages. Or if you prefer, you may sign up for my phone text message service that I use to report scores with during the season. Sign up here for text-only.
The Southwest All-Star game is put on by SGFsoccer.com and the Springfield SC to recognize the top High School seniors in the region. Tickets are sold at the door and are non-refundable. Ticket and advertising revenues fund the event and the organizers time in coordinating this major event. Contact Ole if you would like to learn more.
Its great that girls are playing soccer at college levels. But there is a huge difference between signing and possibly walking on to a team. Saying that Ms. Dominguez has signed is wrong, and misleading; Many others HAVE committed to play and she is still indesive if she really even wants to play anymore, why make somthing up??
On the player-bio form there are a couple of places where players indicate their post-high school soccer intentions.
The thing is, this is a nice opportunity for HS players to get together and play WITH some of the better graduating players in the area. For some of them this may be the night that gives them the confidence to make the decision to move on the collegiate level. It is not important which level; just that they decide to try it out and create a life-time memory in the process.
Most of these young people have been playing against each other at the high school level for 4 years and now they have a chance to play with each other. The respect that these players show each other at this game is pretty neat. They’re all All-Star soccer players from the region and the games have always been close, competitive, and fun.
SGF and SSC put on a very good event here and the players that have participated in the past have mentioned how much fun they had in this game. I am anticipating another exciting night of high school soccer.