WAGS Reflections

Tournament Chair: Ron Vodicka

# of Teams: 39

14 out-of-town teams

Canadian Clubs: St.Andrews, Amourdale, Don Mills

New Jersey Clubs: Bricktown, Point Pleasant, Tom’s River, Wall and Dover

Eastern Penn Clubs: Enfield

Maryland Clubs: Baltimore

25 WAGS Teams

Annandale Boys Club, Bladensburg SC, Bowie Soccer Association, Bowie Boys Club, Braddock Road Youth Club, Camp Springs, Fairfax Police Youth Club, Great Falls Soccer Association, Little River SC, Mclean Youth, Springfield Boys Club, Vienna Youth Soccer Club, and Virginia Hills

1976 WAGS Spring Season Officers: Polly Phillips (President), Marie Steckman (Secretary), Lonnie Fisher (Treasurer and Registrar), Jon Blake (Rules and Discipline).

Spring 1976 was my WAGS debut. My FPYC 76’ers played in the 1965 division. As the FPYC representative, I attended every WAGS meeting after affiliation. It was these meetings where I first met and befriended Rael and Mavis. All three of us shared the same passion for girls’ soccer, and what it could be if given the same opportunities that the boys had.

This passion would bring us all together, along with an unforeseen crisis that none of us had predicted…

Stay Tuned for the Next Chapter: Rael to the rescue! How a sudden move affected the future of WAGS, and what Rael taught me about leadership.