News for the Week of June 25, 2012

Program Notes for the Week of 6/25/2012:

Shorepal Meeting:
Mark your calendars - the next Shorepal meeting will be held on Tuesday July 10th at 7:30 p.m. at the Old Firehouse at the corner of Lake Rd. and Rt.83.  We will be making our final plans for the Alumni game and reviewing the rest of the summer's events.  Hope to see you there!


Alumni Game:
The annual Alumni Game & Picnic will be held on Saturday July 14th at 3:00 p.m. at Walker Road Park. We will start play around 3:00 p.m. with food and fellowship to follow. Let any Alumni you run across know about this year's game and have them rsvp with shirt size to sixkennys@oh.rr.com.


20th Anniversary of Shoregal Soccer:
This season we will celebrate 20 years of Shoregal soccer. That is a long time and we have had a lot of terrific girls pass through our program over the years who have set the bar high for future generations. Each week, we are going to highlight some of the important games and important people to the program over these last 20 years.

This week we will feature Jeannie (Stuckey) Lewis:

If one player could be chosen as the greatest in Shoregal history, then a compelling case could be made for Jeannie Stuckey, class of 2001, based on her total body of work.  Jeannie only played two years with Avon Lake High School as her family moved to Ohio from Gainesville, Fla. for her junior and senior years.  She was already a star player in the Gainesville area and was Player of the Year her sophomore season at Eastside HS. She scored an incredible 68 goals and contributed 49 assists her freshman and sophomore years at Eastside.  She continued as a high level player at ALHS and scored a total of 41 goals and rang up 21 assists.  If you do the math, her career totals were 109 goals and 70 assists.  Truly remarkable numbers!  Her goal total ranks her 20th all time in the State of Ohio and her assist total ranks her 4th all time!  She was the first Shoregal named as MVP of the Southwestern Conference and was 2nd team All-Ohio both in 2000. The Shoregals reached the District championship game in both of her seasons.  She also was a part of two of the highest scoring teams in Shoregal history and formed a deadly scoring combination with Meg Ryan in 1999 and Kelsey King in 2000.  Jeannie still holds the Shoregal record for most goals in a season with 26.

After high school, Jeannie went on to star at the Unviersity of Akron. She was part of the first Varsity team in school history in 2001 and helped to establish the women's program at Akron.  She is still the program's all time leader in points, goals, game winning goals, and assists. She is at the top of practically every offensive category where stats are kept.  Just a magnificent career and she remains a big fan of the current Shoregals.


Soccer Site of the Week:
This week we are going to present some links from the Women's Sports Foundation that deal with girls dropping out of sports around the time that they enter high school.  This year is the 40th anniversary of the Title IX legislation which opened up sports participation to girls on a broader basis.  Now it seems that girls are actually participating less frequently in sports and the WSF has some tips on what you can do to keep your daughters involved.  See the links below at:

http://bit.ly/LjFM02

http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/



Euro 2012:
There will be some great soccer on TV this week as the Euro 2012 tournament is down to 4 teams.  On Wednesday 6/27 it will be Portugal vs. Spain  and on Thursday 6/28 it will be Germany vs. Italy.  On Sunday July 1st, the championship game will be played.  All games are on ESPN and will start at 2:45 p.m.  Should be great soccer!