Girls players and parents, please mark your calendar with the following events:

1. Mandatory Parent Meeting, Feb. 16 – We will start at 6 PM in the school library. Player eligibility, school and team policies, and booster club plans will all be shared. The meeting should last approximately 45 minutes.
2. Preseason Picnic, Mar. 1 – School cafeteria, 6-7 PM. Each player’s family will bring something to accompany the meat selection provided by the booster club. Booster club will finalize plan for the season, and girls will receive their various apparel (socks, t-shirts, etc…).

Also, please add the following link for the PHS Soccer Calendar to your browser favorites (or add it to your own Google Calendar):

http://soccerphs.com/parkview-soccer-calendar/   The game schedule is loaded, and you can find directions to away games by clicking on a game’s link and then clicking on “map”.

Here is the game schedule in another format. There still might be need to revise a game or two, but this schedule is as accurate as I can make it for now:

http://soccerphs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/2012-Girls-Soccer-Schedule-1-27-2012.pdf

Lastly, remember to get your physical turned in to me by Feb. 24. All athletes are supposed to turn it in on the new forms put out by MSHSAA last summer, so please be sure to get that to me before the first day of practice if you’ve not already turned one in to the school office. Here is a link to the new physical form:

http://soccerphs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Physical-Evaluation-2011-Preparticipation.pdf

Thanks,

Coach Nurnberg

The good news: the indoor schedule was realeased over the weekend. Here it is:

http://www.lakecountrysoccer.org/Assets/Girls+B+HS.PDF

The bad news: due to a miscommunication about the leagues we were trying to sign up for, only one of our teams was assigned a league to play in.

Long story, short… We have 20 girls, eight games, one team. Here’s what we’re doing about it:

1. Any girls who have not yet paid will be asked to give up their indoor roster spot.
2. Any girls who have opportunities to play on another team will be encouraged (but not required) to give up their roster spot.
3. We will divide up the eight games on our schedule between the remaining girls. Most girls will play approximately 6 games instead of 8.
4. Full or partial refunds will be distributed after we settle up with Lake Country.

Sorry for this disappointment. It was an honest mistake between us and the LCS office, who all did what they were supposed to; but because the schedules are now so full, they have no way to reassign our other team into any of the leagues scheduled to begin before the high school outdoor season gets underway.

FOR THE FIRST GAME THURSDAY… McKenzi has to sort out the roster based on the issues listed above, so she will be in touch tonight and Wednesday to do that and then announce who will play in the first game.

If you don’t have Mac’s number, you can reach me at 860-0759, and I will share her number with you.

Thanks… Coach Nurnberg

The schedule for the girls’ 2012 season is posted on the website. All of the dates should be 100 percent correct; starting times for home and away games need to be verified.

I will amend the away-game info as I receive it from the other schools.

I will update the exact times and locations for our home games once I receive the track schedules, which are due out before the end of January. As you may realize, we play as many home games at JFK Stadium as we can, but track events take priority and force some of games back over to our grass field. Due to a lack of lights at the grass field, we start grass-field games earlier in the evening.

Here is the link to the schedule:

http://soccerphs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/2012-Girls-Soccer-Schedule-1-3-2012.pdf

Sophomore Emily Courtney dominated her sideline throughout the district tournament. She scored the game-winning goal in Thursday's district championship match.

The Parkview Lady Vikings defeated Joplin, 2-0, Thursday at Harrison Stadium, a win that delivered the school its first-ever district title in soccer.

Sophomore Emily Courtney put away the game-winning goal in the early minutes of game, pouncing on her own rebound and roofing it underneath the crossbar on the team’s first cornerkick of the night.

Senior Kelsey Loderhose scores with the outside of her foot.

Senior Kelsey Loderhose added an insurance goal less than 10 minutes later, receiving the ball from Courtney and then slotting the ball into the right corner of the goal with the outside of her foot.

While the team created a few more good chances to score, the defense took over, limiting Joplin’s offensive opportunities to a few tense cornerkicks in the second half.

The girls will play the winner of the Class 3 District 11 champion (either Glendale or Nixa) in the sectional game next Tuesday. The time and location of that match have not been determined yet.