

An announcement this morning via social media introduced a St. Louis Lions WPSL Team. The Women’s Premier Soccer League (WPSL) is an independent national league whose main focus is on the development of highly competitive premier women’s soccer teams. Fire and Ice FC, based in Columbia Illinois were champions of the 2017 season.

Make sure to check out our new web page for news regarding our team. Tryouts Feb. 24 at Lutheran St. Charles. Registration online. More news coming https://t.co/rkF9yvONu9 — St Louis Lions – WPSL (@STLLionsWPSL) January 29, 2018

The team has announced Open Tryouts on February 24th as well as their first two player signings, both alumni of TGSC. Mary Niehaus, a Goalkeeper who just her career with Saint Louis University. She is joined by Raquel Rodriguez, who finished her first season as a Sophomore Midfielder for Southwest Baptist University in 2017. Both played for the St. Louis Lions Super Y team that placed 3rd in Nationals in 2013.

A short chat with a key Club member regarding the team indicated that the goal is developmental, providing a path for women both within TGSC and others in the community. So while Fire and Ice features as many post-college players as current college players, the Lions will likely be more heavily focused on college players, much like their Men’s PDL team. I’ll still hold out hope that TGSC and SLU alum Cristina Rodriguez joins her sister Raquel on the team.

TRYOUTS

If you think you have what it takes to play for the highest level of developmental women’s soccer and the largest women’s league in the world, then click here to register for our Inaugural Season Tryouts! Tryouts will take place on February 24, 2018 at Lutheran High School in St. Charles. All interested players MUST register online.

The league has over 100 clubs participating from all over the United States. The WPSL makes every effort to bring quality soccer to all levels of the community and to promote the stature of female athletes as role models for our youth.