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Alamogordo Lady Tiger Soccer opened their season on Saturday at 10 AM playing against Valencia.
10’ Olivia Morris scores, assisted by Paris HillAlamogordo led Valencia 1 to 0. 30’ Olivia Morris scored her second goal, Kay Beach with the assist Alamogordo led Valencia 2 to 0. At the halftime Alamogordo led Valencia 2 to 0.
44’ Sierra Symons scores, Olivia Morris with the assist Alamogordo led Valencia 3 to 0. 51’ Francesca Otero gets Valencia on the board Alamogordo continues the lead over Valencia 3 to 1. 77’ Sierra Symons scores her second goal of the match Alamogordo led Valencia 4 to 1. Girls Soccer final for the Alamogordo Tiger girls as they defeated Valencia 4 to 1.
Olivia Morris and Sierra Symons each scored twice. Kay Beach, Paris Hill and Olivia Morris each with an assist. The Lady Tigers Soccer team begin the se in victory 1 to 0, they next play at Deming on Tuesday.
Almost fifty years ago, a robust competitive high school girls soccer game like Alamogordo High School Tigers demonstrated Saturday was effectively unheard of in the United States. Yet thanks to Title IX, which became law in 1972 and banned sex discrimination in education, generations of girls have had the promise of access to sports and other educational programs.
And girls’ soccer, perhaps more than any other women’s sport, has grown tremendously in the 50 years since. School administrators quickly saw adding soccer as a cost-effective way to comply with the law, and the rising interest helped youth leagues swell. Talented players from around the globe came to the United States. And as millions of American women and girls benefited, the best of them gave rise to a U.S. women’s national program that has dominated the world stage.
“Once Title IX broke down those barriers, and let women and girls play sports, and said they have to be provided with equal opportunities, the girls came rushing through,” said Neena Chaudhry, the general counsel and senior adviser for education at the National Women’s Law Center. “They came through in droves.”
Before Title IX passed, an N.C.A.A. count found only 13 women’s collegiate soccer teams in the 1971-72 season, with 313 players.
In 1974, the first year in which a survey by the National Federation of State High School Associations tracked girls’ participation across the United States, it counted 6,446 girls playing soccer in 321 schools in just seven states, mostly in New York. That number has now climbed to about 3.4 Million girls playing soccer in high schools across the country, with schools often carrying multiple teams and states sponsoring as many as five divisions.
Alamogordo High School has a proud history of women’s sports as a result of Title IX. The early 1970s Alamogordo girls were limited to 5 sports.
Alamogordo’s Coach Marilyn Sepulveda brought home the first Girls State Championship Title to Alamogordo in track and field as the first women’s sport to win a state title post Title IX.
From Soccer, to Golf, to Track and Field, Volleyball, Cross Country, Basketball, Softball, Tennis, Swimming and more Alamogordo Tiger Girls now represent a wide variety of interest and skills based on the foundation and leadership of those coaches from the 1970s.
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