In 2002, Felipe Trevino started coaching a girls club soccer team and throughout the years it has competed in boys’ leagues, won The Dodge City Women's Futsal League and appeared in the gotsoccer.com's state rankings, where they are currently ranked 15th out of over 200 teams.
"We have no superstars,” Trevino said. “ This bunch of 20 girls works as one."
This Saturday Trevino's team, named the Abejas, will compete in a doubleheader in which they have to win one-of-two games to reach the playoffs.
"I'm confident," Trevino said. "We didn't get there by helping little-old ladies cross the street. We play hard soccer and we are a well-disciplined team. ... Poetry in motion is what you got."
The top-four teams in the league reach the playoffs. The Abejas are currently in third and they are playing the fourth and fifth-place teams.
The team has not always been consistent winners. In 2003, they were invited to play in the Multicultural League, Trevino said, where he took a group of 13 girls to play against mostly boys' teams.
"The reaction (of other teams), was we did not belong there," Trevino said. "That they were better off at home playing with dolls."
He said that they struggled, but it paid off when they got older and started competing against other girls.
Today, girls of all different age groups want to be part of what he started. Trevino said he does not want to turn any girl away and now works with six different teams and coach's girls younger than eight to 16.
The younger groups follow the tradition of playing against boys, Trevino said.
"That probably has a lot to do with their development," he said. "When they first started, all they played was boys and now they are playing girls, so it's a whole different ball game."
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In 2002, Felipe Trevino started coaching a girls club soccer team and throughout the years it has competed in boys’ leagues, won The Dodge City Women's Futsal League and appeared in the gotsoccer.com's state rankings, where they are currently ranked 15th out of over 200 teams.
"We have no superstars,” Trevino said. “ This bunch of 20 girls works as one."
This Saturday Trevino's team, named the Abejas, will compete in a doubleheader in which they have to win one-of-two games to reach the playoffs.
"I'm confident," Trevino said. "We didn't get there by helping little-old ladies cross the street. We play hard soccer and we are a well-disciplined team. ... Poetry in motion is what you got."
The top-four teams in the league reach the playoffs. The Abejas are currently in third and they are playing the fourth and fifth-place teams.
The team has not always been consistent winners. In 2003, they were invited to play in the Multicultural League, Trevino said, where he took a group of 13 girls to play against mostly boys' teams.
"The reaction (of other teams), was we did not belong there," Trevino said. "That they were better off at home playing with dolls."
He said that they struggled, but it paid off when they got older and started competing against other girls.
Today, girls of all different age groups want to be part of what he started. Trevino said he does not want to turn any girl away and now works with six different teams and coach's girls younger than eight to 16.
The younger groups follow the tradition of playing against boys, Trevino said.
"That probably has a lot to do with their development," he said. "When they first started, all they played was boys and now they are playing girls, so it's a whole different ball game."
