Esme Torres ⚡️⚽️

| Eureka, CA 🌊 ➡️ 🏙 Chicago | CUC Alum 21’ ⚽️ | Coach w Fenwick Varsity girls & @ChicagoFCUnited

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@y2jdmbfan @theChicagoStars It’s called taking Metra, Purple Line, or Bus which drops you off right at the stadium.

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With the next IHSA board of directors meeting set for Monday (June 16), there needs to be positive change and a new set of eyes around soccer as it continues to struggle at the high school level in Illinois.

This week, I am going to lay a number of things out, and you’ll also see stories in main stream media leading up to the board of directors meeting.

Today, we are going to look at officials.

IHSA soccer officials are required to attend clinics once every three years. The clinics are not run by the IHSA, but subcontracted out to the IL Soccer Clinics (ISC). It is ran by Chris Rudolph, John Anderson and others.

According to officials, ISC’s content uses real examples from high school games and is good.

Despite this being a separate organization, IHSA assistant executive director Beth Sauser picks the clinicians and the clinicians help Beth pick officials for the IHSA state finals.

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that when you look at this picture with this post, a portion of the state finals officials are leadership from ISC.

On the chart that is pulled from public IHSA data, John Anderson goes back and forth from being Coordinator of Officials - the person who gives the directives and game assignments for the IHSA state finals - to being an active official at the state finals. 

Again, I ask you to look at this picture. I am all for experience and rewarding longtime and dedicated officials, but we have to use common sense.

Why don’t we have younger officials assigned to be with a mentor on state finals weekend? Why don’t we have more females involved? Why don’t we have more Hispanic officials involved?

For years, I’ve listened to college officials, who also are IHSA certified - meaning they paid their fee to the nearly $1 million IHSA pot to have the right to officiate any IHSA game - tell me that the IHSA refuses to let them work IHSA state tournament games.

In addition, I’ve listened to some of the top Hispanic officials in the #Chicago region tell me they’ve never received postseason assignments from the IHSA.

Perception is reality, and the reality is that we need to look and see the following:

Is there a conflict of interest here with ISC and IHSA?

Why don’t we have up-and-coming officials at state finals events to gain experience of being around the atmosphere, build relationships and watching from the sidelines to promote them?

Why don’t we have more female officials at state finals events?

Why don’t we have more Hispanic officials at state finals events?

It’s time for a new set of eyes around IHSA soccer.

Data pulled from:

https://t.co/ieD0jxLgpn

https://t.co/9WIDYlJBUi

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The long quest to build both a training facility and a stadium in Chicago -- with #NWSL as the primary tenant -- continues. More from the Chicago Tribune, which includes this point that really summarizes the league's widespread venue problem.

https://t.co/ZiOH2eEeqT

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Former Republican Senator Jeff Flake campaigning for VP Harris in Arizona

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