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Thursday, March 24, 2011 By Katrina Hocker
 Girls' soccer is being moved from the fall to the spring. - Katrina Hocker
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Carlisle High School sports fans are accustomed to boys’ soccer in the fall and girls’ soccer in the spring; however, this is changing.
Starting the 2012-2013 school year, both girls’ and boys’ soccer will be played during the fall sports season. This change will affect not only the Carlisle girls’ soccer team, but numerous other high school teams throughout Pennsylvania.
Currently, certain schools in Pennsylvania hold girls’ soccer season in the fall and others hold it in the spring. This causes conflict because there are two separate state championships in the two separate seasons. To fix this problem, most girls’ soccer teams will play in the fall and participate in one big state championship.
There are mixed feelings among the girls’ soccer team about this change, most of them discontent or apprehensive.
Freshman Marguerite Stasyszyn said, “I think it’s not going to work out…I’m very skeptical about it [the season change].” Stasyszyn is mainly worried about “a conflict over fields between boys and girls. Practice space is going to be limited.”
Other players are discontent with the season change because they will have to make sacrifices and decisions. Any girl who currently plays soccer and a fall sport, such as field hockey or volleyball, will be forced to choose a sport.
“[The season change] is going to be especially hard on me because I play volleyball and soccer,” said sophomore Erin Faller. “ It’s going to be my senior year so having to pick just one means I might not get a scholarship I could have.”
Junior Alyssa Rowe believes this will hurt the soccer team. “It’s going to be difficult,” Rowe said. “[We’re] going to lose players to other sports; other sports are going to lose players to soccer.”
The consequences of the change are yet to be determined but one can definitely expect more than a seasonal change in the girls’ soccer team in the fall of 2012.
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