League Play
I currently play in the Greater New Orleans Women's Soccer League on a team called The Fury. There are currently six teams in the GNOWSL and we play spring and fall.
I also play on a coed team in the New Orelans Coed Soccer League called Extinction. The coed league plays winter and summer which has been quite a change for me. I haven't experienced high humidity in years and now I'm playing in the heat of the south. However, the guys and gals on the team are worth dealing with the weather.
The Greater New Orleans Women's Soccer League also puts on a Women's Soccer Tournament each year. In 2005, my team made it to the semi-finals. After Hurricane's Katrina and Rita, we had to cancel the 2006 tournament. It seems that the fields we usually used were repositories for huge piles of trash. I'm now the Tournament Chair and we're hoping that the 2007 event is a huge success.
Before I left the San Francisco Bay Area, I played and coached in the Golden Gate Women's Soccer League. I started playing with Avanti and, after a disagreement with the team manager, formed a new team with 11 members of that team. The new team was called Las Brujas and we started each half by quoting from Macbeth. We were in the fourth division (of seven) and typically ended the season in second place.
I also served on the Board of the GGWSL as a member and as theTreasurer for four years. The Golden Gate Women's Soccer League was founded in the 1970's with 4 teams and currently has over 50 teams in 8 divisions. Women of all ages and skills play. In 2004, the league started an over 35 division for those of us who don't think aging is an excuse to stop playing.
Tournaments
I played with Spikes Too at the 2004 International Gay and Lesbian Football Association World Championship that was played in beautiful San Francisco, CA. As the only woman on a boy's team--I switched to their team because they didn't have a goalkeeper--I got a little well used. While we didn't win a single game, we had a great time during this week long tournament.
I played with Olivia Scores at the 2002 Gay Games in Sydney, Austraila. We took home the bronze. This was a fantastic tournament with 28 women's teams from around the world. We played teams from France, England, South Africa, Canada, and, of course, Australia.
