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Hazard / Perry County have a youth soccer league that will help Hazard's program. Before last year the only program that benefitted from the HPCYSL was Perry. Now some the Hazard kids that played in HPCYSL will have a team once they enter high school. But they are still behind in terms of program development as compared to Perry and Letcher. Like someone posted before, the lack of a knowledgeable coach hurts as well. If they can hire a coach who actually knows something about the game, that would be a big step forward. One thing Perry and Letcher will always have on Hazard is the size of their talent pool. It’s just a numbers game. Hazard Soccer will always be in numbers crunch because they are a class a school. Perry and Letcher just have a bigger number of kids to pull from to field a team. The key could be to get the basketball and baseball players who are not playing football to join team.

On a side note I did watch the Hazard/Perry U19 team play Letcher and was impressed with how well they played. It was great to see city and county kids playing together. Proving that it is the adults are to blame for the rift between the two schools. Not the kids. Also Deron Amis was impressive in goal. I could see him being a college goalie with his size and athleticism. Did he play for PCC last year?