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After years of trying to find a home that featured first-class facilities with turf fields that was easily accessible, the girls version of the Pepsi Showdown is now only four months away from kicking off and becoming the largest regular-season high school tournament in the country - http://www.pepsishowdown.us
The 32-team tournament, which is hosted by Oak Park and presented by the Chicago Sun-Times, is scheduled for the first week in April. With the girls soccer season set to kick off on February 26, 2008, teams will have more than a month to prepare for the upcoming showcase.
This Sunday, the 32 coaches will seed themselves for the first year. While that most likely won’t continue in years to come (the 2008 boys version of the Pepsi Showdown will be seeded by members of the media), it should be interesting to see who falls where.
So who do you think should be seeded No. 1-32?
Here is the 2008 field:
York
Elk Grove
Downers Grove North
Lockport
Hersey
Wheaton North
New Trier
Oak Park
Providence
Libertyville
Warren
Lyons
St. Ignatius
Homewood-Flossmoor
Oswego
St. Charles North
Fenwick
Larkin
Wheaton Academy
Payton
U-High
Maine South
Andrew
Loyola
Marist
Hinsdale South
Young
Sandburg
Lake Zurich
Stagg
Jacobs
Vernon Hills
*Wheaton South (play-in for 2008, joining in 2009)
- Joe Trost
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TROST RESPONDS: Jan. 1
Wheaton North has a lot returning including thier top 2 attackers. If they can fill a couple holes and strengthen their back 3 they should be very dangerous.
LT, Maine South, New Trier are all coming off a State Qualifying year for them.
St. Charles North doesn't lose much from a decent team that will have a lot of sophomore and juniors with good Varsity Experience.
Those 5 should all be Top 8 seeds.
Lake Zurich should also be a Top 10 seed as well. They put a strong squad last year despite losing some of the best palyers ever to go through their program in '05 & '06