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International Soccer Club (ISC) member Ann Mitchell joins- fellow players in pursuit of the ball (at left); Club president Wendy Coyle discusses team strategy with player Keith Burgess, whose T-shirt expresses ISC's motto best
Improving soccer skills is a team effort
By DIANA YOUNKEN
Collegian Staff Writer
Soccer anyone? How about soccer
everyone?
For years soccer competition has been
reserved for men's high school, college
and professional teams, and women
have had few, if any, opportunities to
participate.
But the game that traditionally has
been Europe's No. 1 pastime is fast
becoming one of the most popular team
sports for all ages in the United States,
and it's not for men only.
At least that's the attitude behind the
first and probably only coed soccer team
in State College: the International
Soccer Club ( ISC). ,
"We're trying to eliminate the myth
that women don't play soccer," ac
cording to Wendy Coyle, president of
ISC, which was organized in spring 1970
by a group of foreign graduate students.
"In the past, soccer's been a man's
sport," Coyle said, perhaps because "a
lot of men are physically aggressive and
a lot of women aren't."
At Penn State, women are excluded
from playing in soccer intramurals or on
the men's soccer team, Coyle explained,
and the only soccer physical education
course available to women is a com
bination of soccer and football.
"Before last winter there was no
women's soccer anything," she added,
"but apparently there's an interest."
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Coyle said. "There have been times that
if it were not for the women of the club,
the club would be non-existent."
The men are just as enthusiastic about
recruiting women members, according
to Coyle, who until winter term was the
only woman on the team.
Thus, ISC "is a social club as well as
an athletic club," she said. "In the past
it wasn't because, there weren't any
women. And maybe they're more
serious about socializing than they are
about soccer."
The club's social aspect is enhanced
by the fact that people are eligible and
encouraged to join no matter what their
abilities, Coyle said. "We've got players
who've never seen a ball before."
Many of the women who joined the
club were beginners, and at first they
were somewhat intimidated by the more
experienced male players, Coyle said.
And as with any organization, some
members were less' committed to
learning new skills and showing up
regularly for practice, she added.
But the women have "really got a head
for soccer," she said. "They're eager to
learn, they're excited; they'll liSien to'"
ISC meets for practice at , Pollock
Fields every Tuesday, Thursday,
Saturday and Sunday starting at 6 p.m.,
and according to Coyle, new members
really work hard, with the veteran
players' help, of course.
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The club's women's division recently
entered the State College town league,
which is held every spring for about 12
local teams.
"The object of entering the women's
team into the league was to give them an
opportunity to have competition outside
the University," according to ISC
member Keith Burgess.
Although they won only the first game
in the playoffs, the women did not
become discouraged, according to Floyd
Trunzo, another player. "There was an
improvement in play and in con
fidence."
Helping the women improve their
skills is a team effort, he said.
Both Burgess and Trunzo said that
most women will have few problems
playing against the men if they con
centrate on building up basic soccer
skills.
"It probably just comes down to a foot
race," Trunzo said, explaining that most
men run faster than women.
Noreen Tighe (13th-secondary
education), one of the six women
members this summer, said she's been
playing soccer for three years and
sometimes; ." it-gets 'kind of frustrating"
playing with men. "You're lucky if you
get the ball," she said.
Another player, Ann Mitchell
(graduate-nursing) said, she never
played soccer before enrolling in the
club, but she's getting the hang of it.
"It's hard," she sighed.
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Trunzo said one of the group's greatest
concerns is organizing a regular playing
Schedule, perhaps by registering with
the United States Soccer Federation. ..
"We think it'd be more beneficial to
the club if we can show potential
members who we plan to play," he said.
Who have they played so far? Since the
club was formed, ISC has competed
against college teams and ethnic clubs
all over Pennsylvania and in New York,
New Jersey, Washington D.C., and
Maryland.
With increased funding and notoriety
(they are supported partially by
Associated Student Activities), the club
hopes to play other countries, according
to Trunzo.
ISC's own membership is unique in
that respect, he said, for it includes
players from several foreign countries:
Trinidad, Greece, Malaysia, Iran,
Turkey, Africa, Thailand, the Bahamas,
and Germany.
"It's like a little United Nations," he
said, "and you meet interesting people."
They often get together after a game
to discuss strategy, see a movie, drink
beer or eat watermelon, Trunzo added.
And it's clear that ISC members are
linked by a common bond a passion
and determination for soccer that never
quits, even in the face of injuries. "I've
been put on crutches twice," Wendy
Coyle proudly asserted, "but I always go
back for more."
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