What started out as a group of 8-year-old girls playing city league recreational soccer together
has now blossomed into a State Championship Club Team.

The Brazos Valley Blazers were just an idea several years ago that involved multiple area families who shared a common interest of having their young daughters experience a higher level of competition than recreational soccer could provide. So we created a team under the Brazos Valley Football Club, hired a coach and trainer and went to work.

It has been an incredible journey and an unending learning experience along the way. We have grown in size every year for the past four years and welcomed new girls to the Blazer family from all around the area as far reaching as Huntsville, TX. The journey has always been about way more than just soccer, and the girls are a testament to that.

This spring we travelled every weekend to the greater Houston area, to take part in the Dynamo/Dash soccer league, a highly competitive developmental league whose namesake is the Houston-based professional soccer organizations for both the MLS and the NWSL. These are large club organizations that pull from extensive populations of potential players to form their teams, so the competition level per division is as good as you can find throughout the state.

Our girls represented the Brazos Valley extremely well by winning the regular season, advancing to the district playoffs and going undefeated there, to claim a spot in the President's Cup State Championship in Round Rock, TX, May 14-16.

At that event, they also went undefeated amongst the other 3 state finalist teams amassing 8 goals while surrendering only 1 goal for the entire tournament. After earning State Champion honors for this league and division, they were invited to play at the regional tournament in Decatur, Alabama, June 9-13, as the sole representative from the Southern Division of the State of Texas.

This will be a completely unprecedented and exciting experience for these girls, some of whom have never even left their home state of Texas, and we are incredibly eager to take on the challenge and to continue to represent the Brazos Valley. A potential advancement from the regional level would mean an opportunity for the girls to compete for the National Championship later this summer. The entire experience to this point
has been an incredible blessing and wherever our journey ends, we know that the girls will have been gifted with so much more along the way than any Championship could equal.

GO BLAZERS!!



TLDR version:
Dad wants to brag on his little girl and her soccer team
Brazos Valley has an extremely good club soccer team
The Blazers won the regular season title and the State Championship
Next tournament is in Alabama to represent South Texas for the Regional title
Possible National Championship run later this summer



Aggie related because of this picture with Shea Groom, former Aggie soccer player and current Houston Dash midfielder.

As a dad with an almost 3 day old little girl I'm totally feeling this. Congrats!

Nitwit expected the fields to be artificial so didn't bring cleats. First game he had yesterday he fell on his butt on the first hard run. He said his AR tried to stop, did a full 360 and face plant. The game was suspended after 6 minutes.

Just an update on the Blazers. The girls fought as hard as they could and ended up running out of time. The first game was against the GA champs and it got delayed multiple times, finally starting at 9:45 pm (original kick time was 2). The girls fell short but gave it all they had.

Thursday they were lucky enough to play on the turf field and it was a whole different game. They ended up tying the TN champs 1-1 but had them on the ropes. I think we all heard a collective sigh of relief from the TN parents and coaches at the end because the girls were pressing hard and close to getting a game winner.

The third game was yesterday and the girls had to play mud ball. The field was a mud pit from end line to end line. They played the AL champs and scored a last second goal to take the W 2-1.

They ended up third in their bracket but it could have gone either way in all of games. The TN and GA teams made it to the semis today so the girls played two of the top four teams in the tournament and held their own. It was a great season and those girls never stopped battling. Now time for a little rest and then we start all over with a new season in August.