Ramsey Selected to Represent SC Youth Soccer

Alex Ramsey has been invited to the Region III Developmental Camp to be held February 20-26 at Cal Poly Tech University in Pomona, CA in February. Region III Girls' ODP Chairman, Karen Flanagan, reported the good news to Alex.

There have been 36 players from each region in the '92 and '93 age group pools selected for this event. Especially good for Alex and good for South Carolina!

Wayne Quinlan Resigns from Dutch Fork

Dutch Fork soccer coach Wayne Quinlan resigned Thursday, one week after what turned out to be an illegal practice.

Four Dutch Fork students, three of them soccer players, and a Dutch Fork assistant worked out on Jan. 24, four days before the first official day of practice. According to S.C. High School League rules, a coach is allowed to work with a maximum of three players per day out of season.

League rules call for suspension of the players involved for a season, a minimum of one year’s probation, and a fine. Quinlan said he handed in his resignation beforehand in the hopes of a more lenient decision, but commissioner Jerome Singleton applied the rule fully, including a $500 fine.

Upon appeal to the league’s executive committee, the punishment was reduced to the fine only.

Quinlan said he was advised “at the school level” that the executive committee might be more lenient if the school took self-disciplinary action of letting him resign.

Quinlan said the assistant asked him for permission, and he made a mistake in interpreting the league’s rule.

“I said yes, as long as the fourth player was not on our eligibility (list) last year,” Quinlan said. “That was incorrect; me mixing the 75 percent rule with the three-player rule,” which governs coaches coaching club teams which have members of their high school teams on them.

Under his tutelage, the Silver Foxes have a record of 193-105-9. Quinlan is eighth among active SC coaches with 285 career wins.

“I’ve only had two yellow cards as a soccer coach,” he said. “The fact that I self-reported, and don’t have any history (of violations) meant nothing.”