Notice Little THE HCP

[tlongII]

Sorry your daughter’s team lost tonight. It’s tough to go back to back. She’ll get to tear them up at USF now.

 

[Phatguysrule]

Sorry HCP. If it makes you feel any better OC lost tonight too ...

 

[THE HCP]

Thanks for the kind words you guys. She gave it all she had. Very sad to see and end of an era.

 

[THE HCP]

She received a really cool message from a Lincoln player tonight after the game she has never even met.

 

[THE HCP]

Cool to see her peers show her some respect and love like that.

 

[THE HCP]

Sorry your daughter’s team lost tonight. It’s tough to go back to back. She’ll get to tear them up at USF now.

Thanks man. Her club team starts practicing as soon as next week. Games start in December and run through June. Then she’ll head off to USF mid July. So she still has some time. This senior club season will be different. No need to go with her team all across the country for 4 College Showcases. Since she’s already committed. Said she wants to help her teammates that haven’t got college offers yet get exposure.

 

[THE HCP]

 

[Lanny]

Thanks for the kind words you guys. She gave it all she had. Very sad to see and end of an era.

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You're saying that my high school is only 50% better than yours?
I'm just sticking my elbow in your ribs the Ducks have done to me and my Beavers. Gives you alligator skin.

 

[THE HCP]

All League Teams came out
Kid made first team…. And got robbed for Player of the Year

 

[THE HCP]

The girl who won player of the year plays for Madison high school, now called McDaniel. She had 14 goals and zero assists on a fourth place team with a really weak schedule.
My daughters team, Grant, has the number one strength of schedule in the state. My daughter finished with 13 goals and nine assists on the city league co-champs, while being regularly double teamed, and didn’t win player of the year.
Had a couple coaches reach out to me and say she got robbed. So these type of things are pretty political when the coaches start voting. Had my daughter won, she would’ve been the third straight player from Grant to win player of the year.
Looks like she got that Giannis Antetokounmpo treatment.
Oh well, we weren’t dwelling on it just needed to vent. She’s totally chill.

 

[THE HCP]

All state comes out soon. Who knows how it will turn out.

 

[Lanny]

The girl who won player of the year plays for Madison high school, now called McDaniel. She had 14 goals and zero assists on a fourth place team with a really weak schedule.
My daughters team, Grant, has the number one strength of schedule in the state. My daughter finished with 13 goals and nine assists on the city league co-champs, while being regularly double teamed, and didn’t win player of the year.
Had a couple coaches reach out to me and say she got robbed. So these type of things are pretty political when the coaches start voting. Had my daughter won, she would’ve been the third straight player from Grant to win player of the year.
Looks like she got that Giannis Antetokounmpo treatment.
Oh well, we weren’t dwelling on it just needed to vent. She’s totally chill.

Clearly your daughter and the best women's soccer player in the state was robbed.
I look forward to seeing her in a Thorn uniform (if I live long enough).

 

[THE HCP]

Clearly your daughter and the best women's soccer player in the state was robbed.
I look forward to seeing her in a Thorn uniform (if I live long enough).

Thanks for the kind words. The only other girl that I saw play at her level, is at LaSalle high school and is headed to Gonzaga. But the HS season and stats really means nothing when you are talking about the next level. College scouts not only don't even go to HS games to recruit, they tell you not to even put your HS highlights on your highlight real you send out. It's like putting up big numbers in the G-League.
And as far as her playing for the Thorns, you hang in there, and we’ll save you the first spot in line to get that autograph on opening day!

 

[Haakzilla]

Pretty cool to follow Lil HCPs career, thanks for continuing to share updates! Player of the year with zero assists, what, did the coaches think this was an individual sport like golf or something?!

Also, this seemed like relevant women's soccer news >> https://deadspin.com/it-took-a-fight-for-people-to-talk-about-womens-college-1849728340

 

[THE HCP]

Yeah saw that fight, that was horrible. Pretty rare to see women fighting in soccer.

 

[bigbailes]

Thanks for the kind words. The only other girl that I saw play at her level, is at LaSalle high school and is headed to Gonzaga. But the HS season and stats really means nothing when you are talking about the next level. College scouts not only don't even go to HS games to recruit, they tell you not to even put your HS highlights on your highlight real you send out. It's like putting up big numbers in the G-League.
And as far as her playing for the Thorns, you hang in there, and we’ll save you the first spot in line to get that autograph on opening day!

As someone that has covered HS sports for over a decade, most of these awards (especially the individual ones) are political! Sad that the best kids don't always win, that's why we try to give out our own awards from the station, but I doubt the viewers really care about anything like that in PDX. One of the advantages to living in a small city, the focus is more on the kids and not pro/college teams.

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

The girl who won player of the year plays for Madison high school, now called McDaniel. She had 14 goals and zero assists on a fourth place team with a really weak schedule.
My daughters team, Grant, has the number one strength of schedule in the state. My daughter finished with 13 goals and nine assists on the city league co-champs, while being regularly double teamed, and didn’t win player of the year.
Had a couple coaches reach out to me and say she got robbed. So these type of things are pretty political when the coaches start voting. Had my daughter won, she would’ve been the third straight player from Grant to win player of the year.
Looks like she got that Giannis Antetokounmpo treatment.
Oh well, we weren’t dwelling on it just needed to vent. She’s totally chill.

Disheartening to see that nothing has changed since my boys left HS 22-25 years ago. And it's why I'm glad my granddaughters aren't particularly interested in participating in sports. Your daughter seems to have an abundance of self confidence and self esteem. And that reflects highly on you and your wife. Some kids struggle with the unfairness and politics so inherent in youth sports and carry it forward. Kudos for the little THE HCP for shaking it off and moving on to the next chapter. She'll do just fine. I pity the kids who reach adulthood only to find that no one is paving the way ahead for them anymore.....

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I thought everyone gets a trophy in soccer.

 

[andalusian]

I thought everyone gets a trophy in soccer.

It's called the "I survived the Vuvuzelas" award. and it's for the spectators, not players.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

It's called the "I survived the Vuvuzelas" award. and it's for the spectators, not players.

Does that rank above or below the "I had to sit next to HCP at a soccer game" award?

 

[andalusian]

Does that rank above or below the "I had to sit next to HCP at a soccer game" award?

Well, every Soccer game I have ever witnessed had Vuvuzelas, but @THE HCP is a mysterious creature, known to appear as quickly as he disappears, an enigma, a myth, a legend.

Some say he naturally faces magnetic north, and that all his legs are hydraulic, others claim that his heart ticks like a watch, and that he’s confused by stairs and his voice can only be heard by cats, ginger ones. (*)

So..., below?

(*) Thanks to the poet Jeremy Clarkson for some of those.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Well, every Soccer game I have ever witnessed had Vuvuzelas, but @THE HCP is a mysterious creature, known to appear as quickly as he disappears, an enigma, a myth, a legend.

Some say he naturally faces magnetic north, and that all his legs are hydraulic, others claim that his heart ticks like a watch, and that he’s confused by stairs and his voice can only be heard by cats, ginger ones. (*)

So..., below?

(*) Thanks to the poet Jeremy Clarkson for some of those.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

[Lanny]

Thanks for the kind words. The only other girl that I saw play at her level, is at LaSalle high school and is headed to Gonzaga. But the HS season and stats really means nothing when you are talking about the next level. College scouts not only don't even go to HS games to recruit, they tell you not to even put your HS highlights on your highlight real you send out. It's like putting up big numbers in the G-League.
And as far as her playing for the Thorns, you hang in there, and we’ll save you the first spot in line to get that autograph on opening day!

I'd like that.

 

[Lanny]

I thought everyone gets a trophy in soccer.

How would you know? You'd have to put down the remote and get off the couch to know that. Hint - Life doesn't revolve around the Ducks.

 

[THE HCP]

As someone that has covered HS sports for over a decade, most of these awards (especially the individual ones) are political! Sad that the best kids don't always win, that's why we try to give out our own awards from the station, but I doubt the viewers really care about anything like that in PDX. One of the advantages to living in a small city, the focus is more on the kids and not pro/college teams.

Funny you say that. She was up for the Oregon Female Athlete of the Week 3 times this season. Being from Portland at a school with a few thousand kids, you think she'd kill it. NOT EVEN CLOSE! The girls from these tiny towns in central or eastern Oregon ran away with them. Which is no big deal, small town kids deserve that shine as well. My daughter actually voted for her friends couple times which I thought was pretty cool.

 

[THE HCP]

Disheartening to see that nothing has changed since my boys left HS 22-25 years ago. And it's why I'm glad my granddaughters aren't particularly interested in participating in sports. Your daughter seems to have an abundance of self confidence and self esteem. And that reflects highly on you and your wife. Some kids struggle with the unfairness and politics so inherent in youth sports and carry it forward. Kudos for the little THE HCP for shaking it off and moving on to the next chapter. She'll do just fine. I pity the kids who reach adulthood only to find that no one is paving the way ahead for them anymore.....

Thanks for the kind words.

 

[THE HCP]

Her last couple seconds on the field as a HS player. Never forget it….. she left it all out there.

 

[THE HCP]

This is what it's been all about.... HUGE day tomorrow!

 

[THE HCP]

Had a photo shoot before we left on this road trip since I was going to be gone….. very excited and proud of her! She’ll share the official pic tomorrow.
Thanks so much for letting me share her journey here. As sports fans you guys understand this more than the average people out there. People ask how she doing and don’t realize how tough it is to get to where she is.
Only 2.1% of girls playing HS age soccer in the US make it to D1. Very proud.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

What exactly is a "Don" anyway?