For our seventh consecutive year, BOTN is pleased to present our exclusive Girls Varsity Scholastic soccer thread, this year covering the Fall 2011 action. High school training camps are set to break ground during the next two weeks across New York and the extended region.

Discussions about conferences, alignments, teams, matchups, playoffs, and player achievements are all welcomed! Let the Fall 2011 Girls High School Varsity Soccer matches being! Good luck to all of the teams in the race for the State Tournament!

2011 Nassau League Structure

The 56 Nassau County High Schools will be placed into eight leagues for the upcoming Girls High School Varsity Season. There will be 23 Class AA teams in Divisions AA1 through AA3; 27 Class A teams will play in Divisions A4 through A7; 6 Class B and Class C teams will play in Division B/C.

• Division AA1 : Baldwin, Massapequa, Farmingdale, East Meadow, Hicksville, Mepham, MacArthur, Oceanside
• Division AA2 : Herricks, Syosset, Bellmore-Kennedy, Port Washington, Plainview JFK, Valley Stream Central, Long Beach, Calhoun
• Division AA3 : Carey, Freeport, Hempstead, Elmont, Uniondale, Great Neck South, Westbury
• Division A1 : New Hyde Park, South Side, Garden City, Seaford, Plainedge, North Shore, Levittown-Division
• Division A2 : Clarke, Manhasset, Wantagh, Island Trees, Floral Park, West Hempstead, Bethpage
• Division A3 : Lynbrook, Jericho, Roslyn, Hewlett, Valley Stream South, Valley Stream North, Mineola
• Division A4 : Lawrence, Glen Cove, Great Neck North, Sewanhaka, Malverne/East Rockaway, Roosevelt
• Division B/C : Wheatley, Cold Spring Harbor, Carle Place, Oyster Bay, Friends Academy, Locust Valley

As our Nassau County girls teams prepare to launch their new season on Monday, August 29th, BOTN Industries would like to take a moment beforehand to remember the passing of Bob Bigelow, the first South Side Girls soccer coach whose tenure continued for 21 years beginning in 1980.

In addition to just being part of the South Side district for 32 years, Bigelow won 330 games and ten state titles in his head coaching career. His retirement in 2001 following the South Side 20-0 Class A Championship season earned him the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Coach of the Year Award.

Bigelow passed on June 25th, 2011 in Montclair, New Jersey. He is survived by two daughters: Kimberly Bigelow Organ, of Port St. Lucie, Fla., and Kathleen Bigelow Fink, of Baldwin; eight grandchildren; and siblings Sally Bigelow, Dorothy Russett, George and Jim Bigelow.

Wow...Division A1 and AA1 are stacked, playoff teams are going to look alot different this year, at least half the teams in each division will not make the playoffs...

The Girls side went back to an ability format within school size. Playoff structure will be different from last year. The higher divisions will have more playoff teams.

What about Suffolk?

2011 Suffolk League Structure

The 57 Suffolk County High Schools will be placed into eight leagues for the upcoming Girls High School Varsity Season. There will be 33 Class AA teams in League 1 to League 5; 12 Class A teams will play in League 5 to League 7; 7 Class B, 3 Class C, and 2 Class D teams will play in Leagues 7 and 8.

• League 1 : Brentwood, William Floyd, Longwood, Pat-Med, Commack, Ward Melville, Sachem North
• League 2 : Sachem East, Lindenhurst, Connetquot, Northport, Bay Shore, Central Islip, West Islip
• League 3 : Walt Whitman, HHH East, Smithtown East, Swithtown West, Centereach, Newfield, East Islip
• League 4 : North Babylon, Riverhead, West Babylon, Copiague, HHH West, Hauppauge, Deer Park
• League 5 : Bellport (AA), Comsewogue (AA), Huntington (AA), Kings Park (AA), Eastport (AA), Islip (A), Harborfields (A)
• League 6 : Sayville, Rocky Point, Miller Place, West Hampton, East Hampton, Amityville, Elwood/Glenn
• League 7 : Shoreham-Wading River (A), Mount Sinai (A), Bayport-Blue Point (A), Hampton Bays (B), Southampton (B), Babylon (B), Mattituck (B), Center Moriches (B)
• League 8 : McGann-Mercy (B), Southold Greenport (B), Port Jefferson (C), Pierson/Bridgehampton (C), Stonybrook (C), Ross (D), Smithtown-Christian (D)

Summer is almost over, how about some predictions for the season. Who will win each league? Make the playoffs? Make noise in the playoffs?

Do you include NYC PSAL futbol?