Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Which Brings up Rankings?

The Claremont HS Girls Soccer team just moved up to the #1 ranking in the  USA  according to Maxpreps.com when they are not even rated in their own CIF Division 3 polls, or another standard poll ESPN Gatoraide Top 50.  I am not trying to take anything away from the girls, they are good soccer players, but I want to make the point about polls. Claremont's coaching staff does not report their scores to the CIF website, thus no ranking, they do post to Maxpreps. It is early in the poll season (week#3) and everyone has their favorite teams, programs with past reputations. Claremont beat Upland HS a proverbial ESPN Gatoraide Top 50. This year they are #44. And recently beat Chino Hills a Maxpreps.com #9 national ranking team. It will be interesting to see how the news and rankings of the Claremont girls spreads and improves. Last year the Claremont boys team road the wave of their success all the way to a top ranking in ESPN #4 National having started out just like the girls with no media coverage as well.

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