FWRL Spring

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This improves by U15 as players need to choose between soccer and basketball. .

Stated over and over and over again some of your best soccer players are basketball players. Face it. In most cases these players won't drop one or the other.

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Stated over and over and over again some of your best soccer players are basketball players. Face it. In most cases these players won't drop one or the other.

YES...and not just Basketball. It is what it is. The best athletes will continue to do more than one sport. The only value to combining all these clubs is you may be able to get enough "soccer only" players to form a team and make them sign a soccer only/first contract. But the bottom line is you really need the athletes..

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U13 boys

I think it is interesting that U13/U14 girls are the ages that have been a disappointment in the NWCL. I believe that this particular group that is one that has most affected by the OPL/OYSA divide because they were the early age groups involved. I think to some degree there has been some slowing of the consolidation of talent in this group. Maybe not so much with the boys as they were already consolidated? How did this agegroup of boys do in the NWCL?

Oregon's U13 boys did quite well in NWCL placing 2 teams in the semi's with the 5th place team also being from Oregon. My son's team was the 5th place team and they tied the first place Crossfire team to end the NWCL league play.