Who's brining the wine for 2009!!! Skylines...pie lines...Obama is here Obama is here and those sky little...women could barely beat a world champion Detroit with like...a third of its players last...week, what a Schock. What is Cool and easy/Hot and Nasty though was USA Gymnastics...and then she came in to crush the competition in dancing with the stars...what a surprise!!! AVP stars making successful transition soon to Oak Street Beach/Michigan Avenue with every one looking forward to 2010 and 2012 cause not enough World Records this Olympic Summer Games. Even though Beijing, China allowed American girls and women to have a unique and exciting chance to attain the level of elite world class athlete, this is especially true in soccer as in the first season of WPS Women's Professional Soccer last week's edition of the power rankings saw St. Louis at the top spot for one more week then destroying the Chicago Red Stars, dead last in the rankings...last week with two goals in the first half...seemingly the only half they needed to play as the final score was 2-0 much like their record of 2-3-2 they are the worst team of seven.

It is OK though because absent for the St. Louis game...at home was the four members of the Chicago Red Stars on the U.S. Women’s National Team roster Red Stars midfielders Carli Lloyd, Megan Rapinoe and Lindsay Tarpley as well as defender Marian Dalmy.Thank GOD and da GODDESS their Olympian efforts were truly recognized this summer because I thought the complete team for the most part looked absolutely horrendous game before St. Louis against Brandi Chastain and Tiffany Milbrett's 3-3-1 FC Gold Pride. Performances of Formiga, Milbrett and Japanese forward merit our pursuing them and Chastain (star attraction) in trade.

Performance of Swedish Red Stars Frida and size of Caroline easily distinguish them as cream of unit although Frida making the initial play of game but few others is concerning, I actually thought she was defender until I looked at program. Prority needs to be given to conversion of Caroline to defender, Jackie too then we can manage Marian's injuries then put Jill on the other side of Caroline, Lydia in goal and Frida as lone mid and go with a 3 - 1 - 6, for those technical pessimists we could call it a 3-5-2 but Carli, Chioma, Lyndsay and Megan know what they need to do now! Especially Megan, as her play is supposed to make the other team loose their cool...not vice versa! What is the responsibility of coaching, academia, and the women’s movement to the attainment of such athletic accomplishments in our community? As a baccalaureate and M.A. Chicago Studies Loyola University Chicago alumni and third semester M.S. Information Technology Computer Science student in Technology Management (TM) Track continuing archival and traditional research attempts to analyze this question through the development of this open source project centered around athletics management software.

Methods – Development of business plan/coaching style/open source project built around IT/archival data coincides to March 2008 visits to Notre Dame Archives and other visits to the Chicago State, De Paul, Loyola University Chicago, Northwestern, and UIC archival collections, De Paul has up until this point been the source most referenced. Although now realizing that the University of Detroit Mercy (like Loyola University Chicago, also a member of the Horizon League conference) and Marquette archival collections are also accessible, this revision centers on a reexamination of the (UIC) University of Illinois at Chicago archives and recent discovery of Notre Dame collection.

Results – Business plan/open source project/archival paper/coaching credentials in early stages of development but there seems to be substantial lack of coaching focus on specific goals of world class athletics in midwest which can be directly seen in lack of Olympic presence of girls and women in this area and lack of athletic record almost totally in archival collections concerning girls and women. Most strikingly, at the De Paul archives, the collection with the most current archival materials, it was obvious that the two programs many would consider closest to world-class elite women’s athletics are both chronicled, however slightly, yet other sports are starkly absent. Secondly, at Northwestern, the archival record is, at times, parallel with the history (if not the Illinois history) of the development of women’s athletics specific to world-class competition, such as the Olympics. Lastly, at other universities - Chicago State, UIC, and Loyola, the overall lack of archival data is alarming, thus the reason for the reexamination.

Conclusions - This research into women’s athletic development has led to a thesis that girl’s/women’s athletes in American universities are not usually competitive with world-class standards, and this directly correlates with traditional defeatist/gradualist attitudes embraced by a majority of the coaches of American, and especially, midwest and more specifically Chicago-area girls and women.