Wednesday, February 6, 2002
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Wednesday, February 6, 2002 |
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Soccer girls to sign with colleges today By MICHAEL
BOYLAN As the winter athletic season is nearing its end, soccer season is right around the corner. Practices have already begun for the 2002 soccer season and two of our local girls soccer programs are honoring their graduating seniors as they choose where they will attend college and play soccer in the fall. Starr's Mill has four players signing letters of intent today. Allison Graham and Lindsay Wegryzyn will sign with Clemson university while Kristen Rutland will sign with University of Massachusetts and Amanda Thurber will sign with University of South Carolina. Graham was named to the Parade All-America High School Soccer Team, whcih will appear in an upcoming issue of Parade Magazine and is also training with the USYSA Under 19 National Team. The team is preparing for the first ever FIFA Under 19 World Cup which will take place in Canada at the end of summer. She is also a member of the state champion Lightning 84 White team, the USYSA Region III team and an NSCAA High School All-American. McIntosh also has four players that have chosen where they will go in the fall. Melanie Schneider has chosen Wake Forest, while Tabith lowey will attend Northwestern, Elizabeth Gardner will go to the University of Memphis and Dana Van Winkle will attend UT-Chattanooga. All four girls are also members of the Lightning 84 White team. In other soccer news, David Chadwick, former director of coaching and technical director of AFC Lightning, will be named to the Georgia State Soccer Hall of Fame next week. Chadwick, a Peachtree City resident, coached the Atlanta Chiefs from 1978-1981 and coached the AFC Under 18 boys in 1998 to the first USYSA national championship ever won by a Georgia team.
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