Here is the RPI, NCAA and Soccer America polls.
The regular season should be wrapped now and conference tournaments start now and next week.
NCAA Finals will be Santa Barbara, CA where there is high attendance. I wonder how the East Coast teams will do out here.
RPI
1 Akron
2 Louisville
3 North Carolina
4 SMU
5 Maryland
6 California
7 William & Mary
8 Penn St
9 Indiana
10 Notre Dame
NCAA POLL
1 Louisville
2 Akron
3 Maryland
4 North Carolina
5 SMU
6 Butler
7 UC Irvine
8 California
9 Connecticut
10 Creighton
Soccer America
1. Akron (14-1-1) 1
2. North Carolina (13-2-1) 2
3. Maryland (12-2-1) 3
4. Louisville (14-0-2) 4
5. SMU (14-1-0) 7
6. Butler (15-0-1) 9
7. UC Irvine (13-1-3) 8
8. California (11-2-3) 11
9. Connecticut (11-2-4) 6
10. Virginia (9-3-3) 5
My own soccer life is moving along nicely . 2 games left in our Fall schedule. .About the middle of the season, all the work that they did in practice (2/week) started showing. I cant' explain the feelings you have on the first day of practice in early September when you have a dozen 7 and 6 year old kids with some new players and how one is going to get them to even form a line. 🙂
We are hosting the regional Kohl's Cup here on Nov 13-14. It is a Rec Tourney and there are close to 60 teams registered from the SE Louisiana area. Big tourney for us. I am supposed to arrange additional food to compliment our lil' snack bar. I got a BBQ lined up and we always serve jambalaya for events like this. I will also help on team sign in, trash collection and other fires to put out. Teams will be playing to dark each day.
I also have my team registered to play on Saturday. It is jamboree style for the U8s, so probably just 2 games.
So we have 4 games left plus the parents/kids game and party. It has been a nice Fall.
I also was contacted to have my team play locally in an indoor league starting in the 3rd week of Nov. I don't think that I could put together the required roster but may have some of my players join an existing team and go watch them play each week. 8 game schedule. It would be nice to have a team but it would be nice to have a break and focus on other soccer stuff that I need to do.
Spring season starts in early Feb so first practice will be at the end of Jan. and I need to get involved in player registration. As a small non-profit club, we are bleeding players to the other much larger local clubs which are supported in part from recreational tax money
