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High school soccer offers unique benefits.

Publication: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Publication Date: 31-MAY-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: High school soccer offers unique benefits.(Sports)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Darryl Mellema Daily Herald Correspondent

As we close the high school soccer season in this area, I want to reflect on just what happened roughly 20-25 times at each school this spring.

On each of those occasions, a group of young women got themselves outfitted in their school's colors. Socks, shorts, shirts, all had a very school-related purpose.

Then they went out as representatives of that school and competed against a group of young women who came from a different locale.

And on each of those afternoons or evenings - or at 9 a.m. as was the case when St. Charles North met Wheaton Warrenville South - the result was something special.

When I asked area Tri-Cities All-Area girls soccer captain Caitlin Winkelman what was the best thing about high school soccer - do you think she said it was scoring goals or winning 80 percent of her varsity matches this year?

No.

"The best part is playing for your school and representing your school and the community and playing with some of your best friends," Winkelman said....

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