The Georgia

U15's went 5-0, beating both north and south Texas,

Tennessee and Alabama. By winning the championship,

Georgia qualifies to face the three other region champs

in the national semi-finals in February. The national

tournament will be in San Diego.

Of the 17

players on the Georgia squad, 10 play for the Lightning

84 White team, which is coached by Brian Moore. Eight of

those ten players are from Peachtree City. They are

Melanie Schneider, Dana Van Winkle and Tabitha Lowey of

the McIntosh Lady Chiefs, and Allison Graham, Amanda

Thurber, Rachel Sproul, Kristin Rutland and Lindsey

Wegryzyn of the state champion Starr's Mill Lady

Panthers. The other two members of the Lightning squad

are Jordan Spencer form Douglas County and Lauren Burch

from Griffin.

Both Graham

and Schneider were selected to the region team and will

continue on to the National pool training in Portland,

Ore. this August. Goalkeeper Kristin Rutland and six

other Georgia players were selected to the Region III

pool.

Coaches for

the team are Jacob Daniel and Lightning director of

player development Steve Hutton.

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