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==Girls Teams==

Back in the 1980s and spilling into the 1990s, all girls who wanted to play soccer in the Pensacola, Navarre, Milton, Pace and Gulf Breeze areas were placed on boys teams. Usually, a team would have no more than two girls. It was extremely rare for a girl to continue to play soccer past the U-12 level, but there were a few such as '''Liz Kintner ''' and '''Emily Morgan'''; each of who played on varsity boys high school squads.

'''Barry Shuck''' was a father with several daughters, two of which were coming up in the rec leagues of Milton Optimist. When the PSL was realized as a league, '''Shuck''' along with Gulf Breeze father '''Ken Roose''' decided to take on the responsibility of making girls-only teams in the Florida Panhandle. The first things to occur was that the newly formed PSL seperated all their girls onto teams of their own. Gulf Breeze did the same. Then '''Shuck''' and '''Roose''' went to the City of Pensacola (COP), Panhandle United Soccer Association (PUSA) and Milton Optimist about seperating their girls onto teams. This would allow leagues to friendship with each other since it would be obvious no singular league would have enough girls teams on their own.

~~His oldest daughter Jill Estes told him she~~Initially, COP, Gulf Breeze, PSL and Milton Optimist all made girls teams in age groups U-10, U-12 and U-14. It was decided to keep girls mixed on all U-8 teams. PUSA did not want to seperate their girls mainly because the few girls they had were starters (and stars) on respective boys teams. PUSA did, however, offer "friendly" games for purposes of scheduling teams to play. This meant that PUSA did seperate all of their girls from various boys teams onto one team so that they may play the other leagues in games, but only for "friendly" purposes. The first season, PSL had four girls teams (two U-10, one each U-12 and U-14) while Gulf Breeze had six girls teams (two in each age bracket). Milton Optimist had three teams (one in each age group) while COP had three teams (two U-10 and one U-12). PUSA had one team in U-14. All of these leagues worked together to offer a girls "friendship" schedule with home and away games. To fill out the schedule, games were arranged with the Police Soccer League in Niceville. This league had an abundance of girls teams, and offered to play "friendly" games home and away.

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