Monday Morning News

Today's Daily Bulletin had an article by Will Bigham on former President Clinton's lecture at Bridges Auditorium yesterday. The online article includes a video link that features a possible future president.

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Bigham also had a piece on the new Claremont Stars amateur women's soccer team, which will compete in the Women's Premier Soccer League. The new team will practice at El Roble Intermediate School and play its games at Claremont High.

For those not familiar with soccer, the Stars are a club team--a much more serious and competitive soccer group fielding boys and girls teams for different age groups. Players have to tryout to win a place on a Stars team, and coaching is more skilled and professional than AYSO, which uses parent volunteers. Also, the Stars can recruit players from anywhere to play for them.

Each summer, the Stars host their Summer Classic tournament, which draws teams from all over the U.S., as well as Canada and Europe.

In a way, the Stars are in competition with the more amateur and volunteer AYSO for the field space on city and school district practice fields, and the downside to the new team is that they add another group that besides occupying the fields will create a good deal of wear-and-tear on the facilities.