All Blog Posts Tagged 'GrowTheGame' (3)

Greetings,

I want to take a brief moment and ask this simple question:

Does anyone else remember when there was a simple though of creating a women's premier soccer team in the Kansas City area?

You too?

A year ago I would have never believed the Kansas City Shock would have been a reality, cruising through Kansas City, talking shop, and dreaming big. I would not have imagined that we would have become so big that our tryout…

*Deep Breath*

*Count To Three*

*Repeat*

You would not believe how many time, the moment I wake up, I have to go through this process, follow by this simple question:

Is this real life?

Several months ago I embarked on an endeavor  a challenge, a goal; to develop women's soccer at the premier level in the City of Fountains; known commonly as Kansas City.

Versus coastal cities in the United States, and…

Two down...

One to go...

To probably 90% of the individuals who pay attention to women's soccer in the United States, the discussion of the end of the WPS [Women's Professional Soccer] may have came to a surprise to...no one.

With a league in legal battles with a former owner, teams folding left and right over the years, and a 'national' league only existing along the east coast; it was only time before this program was pulled from life support.

That time was this…