''They play on grass, and we play on dirt."
Jasmine Espino plays high school soccer for Young and club soccer for Eclipse Select. She has played on some quality fields over the years and some....let's just say not-so-quality fields. I'm not sure what they are called - dirt fields or what.
The junior is just one player throughout the Public League that is forced to play on what some consider to be unsafe fields at times each spring. The case is even worse during the fall when boys soccer teams have even less access to Public League stadiums because of football.
Both Calvin Davis, Public League Sports Director, and Joyce Kenner, Public League High School Athletic Association Board president, admitted in today's story that Public League soccer teams are lacking adequate facilitates. But that has been the case for decades, as many coaches and fans of Public League soccer know.
The question Davis and Kenner need to answer is this: What is being done to improve this problem?
Here's today's story - http://www.suntimes.com/sports/preps/833898,CST-SPT-socc10.article
- Joe Trost
















Comments
What is wrong with the Chicago Public Schools is that everyone is out for themselves and the system is too big. Do you really think a school like Whitney Young cares about the rest of the Chicago Public teams? Do you think Walter Payton's coach is going to let the other teams in the city of Chicago come play at his field? I have one answer for you Joe, NO!
Posted by: Suburbs | March 11, 2008 3:09 PM