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It figures.
As one person said to me Sunday, I complained the entire winter about the IHSA-YSO making a bonehead decision to start the girls soccer season on Feb. 25 and look at this - it's 40 degrees today. There's little doubt the teams with turf fields will have an early advantage this year, but the IHSA-YSO knows it should've added a week to the end of the girls soccer season - not the beginning of it.
Nevertheless, most teams will "officially" start practicing today - except for the defending state champ, Waubonsie Valley. With head coach Julie Bergstrom in California working with the under-15 U.S. Women's National Team, the Warriors won't get things going until next week. Bergstrom plans to meet with her girls on Wednesday.
And then you have the Public League teams, battling for space with baseball, softball, track and basketball teams. Yes, I know some suburban programs deal with the same problems, but it's nothing compared to the city.
Tonight, the CPS Principal's Athletic Association Executive Board will meet.
Will CPS finally begin looking for ways to help the sport and its embarrassing, third-world soccer facilities? We'll see.
I would have said fourth-world, but I don't think that's possible.
- Joe Trost
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