Soccer is one of the most played sports by adolescents in the United States, it ranks third in female youth sports. Organized woman sports teams started in nineteen-seventies and ever since Growth of women playing soccer has dramatically increased. The total number of American high school soccer players has more than doubled from the nineties. thanks to Americas national sports team ranking highly and video games like FIFA, Soccer has become one of the fastest growing sport among all major American sports. There are over three million players between ages five and nineteen in the United states currently.
In 2006 Tahlequah High School got their first official female soccer coach named Gregory Hall. Hall was a young …show more content…
Something her coach calls muscle memory, which is repeating the same task over and over you eventually will recreate the action out of reflex without thinking about it. She says that’s she started playing in middle school, and probable wouldn’t have made the team if there had been tryouts then, but she said, after hard work and a lot of practicing she made the high school varsity team by her 3 year of playing. Tahlequah High School soccer have been academic champs for years being a part of a team that encourage you to stay in school and keep your grades up is just another positive thing about belonging to Tahlequah High School soccer says Hatami. She claims to have known many girls who the only reason they still came to school was to play soccer. Even to Hatami, she looks forward to playing because she gets to “forgets academic stress and just relax.” Hatami says that being a part of Tahlequah High School soccer is special because most of the girls on the team have been playing with each other for a long time, so there is a certain chemistry that, cannot be found in any other group of people. She claims her team encourages her to not give up, to keep working hard and push through even when things get tough and seem impossible. “The team encourages each other to keep their grades up, the upper classmen often offer their assistance to the girls in academic areas. This is how we continue to be academic champions”, says