“And the walls came tumbling down.” - Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho
The first state soccer championship in the state of Missouri occurred during the 1968-69 school year. At Normandy High School in St. Louis, the Christian Brothers boys team upended Rosary 1-0 in overtime to claim that historic first title. The first girls championship would be played in 1985 but by then the wall separating the Ozarks from a state soccer title was solidly in place. 23 years after that first title game, teams from SW Mo began taking down the wall piece by precious piece. Progress was slow but steady.
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The preseason state girls soccer poll was released last week. And with matches starting Monday, what better time to see who is favored as we start the season.
In class 1, Springfield Catholic finds itself ranked #2 to start the season after a third place finish last year. Only defending state champion St. Vincent is ranked higher. [...]
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Springfield Soccer announced the boys roster for the 6th annual Southwest All-Star Games to be held this summer on June 22nd at the Cooper Soccer Complex. 38 graduating seniors from across the Ozarks will be playing including 10 all-state players. They come from all three classes and represent 20 different schools. The roster for the girls [...]
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The All-State Soccer teams were announced yesterday and a very good showing for the Ozarks all the way around. Springfield Catholic lead the way with three first team (Justin Bowenschulte, Taylor Arens, and David Bailey), two second team, and two honorable mention selections in class 1. Greenwood’s Chris Aiken was the area’s only other class 1 first team pick as Greenwood had four players picked overall. And Crocker coach Lee Richardson was named public school coach of the year.
In class 2, the public school coach of the year also came to the Ozarks as Bolivar’s Steve Fast nabbed the honor. The Liberators had three players honored with Kyle Slagle and Bradley Stillwagon being named first team.
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Boys soccer districts open Saturday and here’s the seeds for all the districts involving Ozarks teams. But for the rest of the information, I’m deferring to the soccer professional, Ole at Springfield Soccer. Each district below has a link to their respective post at Springfield Soccer that has schedule information, records, even some preview info. Everything you need to know. Enjoy and you’re welcome.
CLASS 1
District 5 at Westphalia
- Fatima
- Stover
- Crocker
- Dixon
- School of the Osage
- Belle
- Cole Camp
- Iberia
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Catching up on some things, the all-state girls soccer team was announced a couple of weeks ago. Springfield Soccer has the full team for each class. You can use the links below to get to each one. Leading the way from the Ozarks is Catholic who placed six players on the class 1 first and second teams. Five of which are sophomores. Glendale nabbed three spots on the class 3 team. And Jonna Welch of Bolivar is the lone area selection in class 2 making the first team.
CLASS 3
First team
- MF – Molly Brewer, FR – Glendale
- GK – Paige Hemphill, JR – Ozark
Second team
- F – Lindsey Sprouse, JR – Glendale
- D – Emily Jordan, SR – Glendale
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Last week, Ole at Springfield Soccer posted the girls roster for the Southwest Missouri All-Star Game to go along with the boys roster announced in Nov. So I thought this would be a good time to make sure every one here put it on their calendars. June 15th at Cooper #1 at the Lake Country Soccer [...]
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For all you fans of soccer in the Ozarks, if you still don’t know about Springfield Soccer, stop reading this and go there now. For those of you that are still reading, Ole has a number of posts you need to check out to get caught up. Reports on tournament action from last Friday and Saturday. [...]
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Doing some catch up here. Springfield Soccer has a plethora of end of season information for the girls. Including…
Goalkeeper stats
Scoring stats
Class 2 SW all-region team & honors
Class 2 Central all-region team & honors
Class 1 SW all-region team & honors
SGFSoccer.com all-Ozarks freshman team
All Ozarks Conference team
All-district teams for class 2 district 10, district 11, and [...]
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