Clearly your daughter and the best women's soccer player in the state was robbed. I look forward to seeing her in a Thorn uniform (if I live long enough).
Thanks for the kind words. The only other girl that I saw play at her level, is at LaSalle high school and is headed to Gonzaga. But the HS season and stats really means nothing when you are talking about the next level. College scouts not only don't even go to HS games to recruit, they tell you not to even put your HS highlights on your highlight real you send out. It's like putting up big numbers in the G-League. And as far as her playing for the Thorns, you hang in there, and we’ll save you the first spot in line to get that autograph on opening day!
Pretty cool to follow Lil HCPs career, thanks for continuing to share updates! Player of the year with zero assists, what, did the coaches think this was an individual sport like golf or something?! Also, this seemed like relevant women's soccer news >> https://deadspin.com/it-took-a-fight-for-people-to-talk-about-womens-college-1849728340
As someone that has covered HS sports for over a decade, most of these awards (especially the individual ones) are political! Sad that the best kids don't always win, that's why we try to give out our own awards from the station, but I doubt the viewers really care about anything like that in PDX. One of the advantages to living in a small city, the focus is more on the kids and not pro/college teams.
Disheartening to see that nothing has changed since my boys left HS 22-25 years ago. And it's why I'm glad my granddaughters aren't particularly interested in participating in sports. Your daughter seems to have an abundance of self confidence and self esteem. And that reflects highly on you and your wife. Some kids struggle with the unfairness and politics so inherent in youth sports and carry it forward. Kudos for the little THE HCP for shaking it off and moving on to the next chapter. She'll do just fine. I pity the kids who reach adulthood only to find that no one is paving the way ahead for them anymore.....
Well, every Soccer game I have ever witnessed had Vuvuzelas, but @THE HCP is a mysterious creature, known to appear as quickly as he disappears, an enigma, a myth, a legend. Some say he naturally faces magnetic north, and that all his legs are hydraulic, others claim that his heart ticks like a watch, and that he’s confused by stairs and his voice can only be heard by cats, ginger ones. (*) So..., below? (*) Thanks to the poet Jeremy Clarkson for some of those.
How would you know? You'd have to put down the remote and get off the couch to know that. Hint - Life doesn't revolve around the Ducks.
Funny you say that. She was up for the Oregon Female Athlete of the Week 3 times this season. Being from Portland at a school with a few thousand kids, you think she'd kill it. NOT EVEN CLOSE! The girls from these tiny towns in central or eastern Oregon ran away with them. Which is no big deal, small town kids deserve that shine as well. My daughter actually voted for her friends couple times which I thought was pretty cool.
Had a photo shoot before we left on this road trip since I was going to be gone….. very excited and proud of her! She’ll share the official pic tomorrow. Thanks so much for letting me share her journey here. As sports fans you guys understand this more than the average people out there. People ask how she doing and don’t realize how tough it is to get to where she is. Only 2.1% of girls playing HS age soccer in the US make it to D1. Very proud.
