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
==External links==