As the winter

athletic season is nearing its end, soccer season is right around the

corner. Practices have already begun for the 2002 soccer season and two

of our local girls soccer programs are honoring their graduating seniors

as they choose where they will attend college and play soccer in the fall.

Starr's Mill

has four players signing letters of intent today. Allison Graham and Lindsay

Wegryzyn will sign with Clemson university while Kristen Rutland will

sign with University of Massachusetts and Amanda Thurber will sign with

University of South Carolina.

Graham was

named to the Parade All-America High School Soccer Team, whcih will appear

in an upcoming issue of Parade Magazine and is also training with the

USYSA Under 19 National Team. The team is preparing for the first ever

FIFA Under 19 World Cup which will take place in Canada at the end of

summer. She is also a member of the state champion Lightning 84 White

team, the USYSA Region III team and an NSCAA High School All-American.

McIntosh also

has four players that have chosen where they will go in the fall. Melanie

Schneider has chosen Wake Forest, while Tabith lowey will attend Northwestern,

Elizabeth Gardner will go to the University of Memphis and Dana Van Winkle

will attend UT-Chattanooga. All four girls are also members of the Lightning

84 White team.

In other soccer

news, David Chadwick, former director of coaching and technical director

of AFC Lightning, will be named to the Georgia State Soccer Hall of Fame

next week. Chadwick, a Peachtree City resident, coached the Atlanta Chiefs

from 1978-1981 and coached the AFC Under 18 boys in 1998 to the first

USYSA national championship ever won by a Georgia team.

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