Soccer team gets a win

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Jackrabbit soccer opens spring season

BROOKINGS, S.D. — Kellyn Farrell scored the game-winner in regulation, to give South Dakota State a 1-0 victory over Creighton University last weekend at the Creighton Invitational in Omaha, Neb.

Farrell, a defender from Littleton, Colo., gave the Jacks the 1-0 advantage, netting an unassisted goal after intercepting a pass.

The Jacks opened the invite falling to North Dakota State 1-0.

SDSU will take on Southwest Minnesota State on April 8 at Fishback Soccer Park in Brookings.

South Dakota State, which will enter its third year of a four-year transition to NCAA Division I affiliation in 2006, will begin play in the United Soccer Conference this fall.

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Re: Soccer team gets a win

off the topic but something i found on the argus leader site just now.

South Dakota may add more girls' sports
From staff and wire reports

Article Published: 03/3/06, 3:38 pm

Softball, soccer, competitive cheer and dance/drill team would be added as girls’ sports under a recommendation to the South Dakota High School Activities Association.

Robert Nuss of Brandon said making soccer a school-sanctioned sport could bring more attention to the girls sport. His daughter, Diana, has played soccer since she was seven, but that was on club rather than school teams.

“It’s just not recognized as readily as basketball, volleyball or track,” Robert Nuss said. “Diana had a couple of years of high school soccer, but it conflicted with volleyball, and volleyball, the sanctioned sport, always took precedence.”

Brandon Valley School allows girls to earn a letter in soccer and list it as an activity on their transcripts even though it’s not a school sport. But to get the attention of college coaches, Diana Nuss had to rely on regional and national tournaments her Sioux Falls club team attended.

She will play soccer at South Dakota State University in Brookings next year.

A teammate on the SDSU team will be Jessica Heine, an O’Gorman High School senior. Jim Heine, Jessica’s dad, said his daughter’s sport was sanctioned at O’Gorman, and he thinks there were advantages to that.

“The nice thing about it is, you get the athletic department’s help with things. From a parent’s standpoint, you get a lot of support,” he said.

Heine said it would be good to give more attention to girls sports. “I don’t think the girls’ sports get the recognition that boys do, but it’s in process,” he said. “There are opportunities for girls to participate, but not always in school.”