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[Point Man]

Just heard from National that WYS has a few more than 87,000 registered players. Interesting!! I know many have gone to US Club, but at our peak we were over 135,000 players. Is this really what Terry and Doug's plan of action from the beginning was to reduce our belived soccer program to rubble? It is working, regardless. Soon, it is going to cost the surviving kids much more to play in WYS than now as the salary budget keeps creeping up.

[lester]

Good question, Point man. 
I don't know where you get your information, but anyone that bothered to do the division on last years budget vs actual could see the membership had dropped under 100K.  Its not surprising to hear it dropped under 90K the following year.
I don't think WSYSA ever reached 135K, they liked to include all the players in Washington that are playing soccer anywhere in their numbers; WSYSA did reach 124K+ at one point.   I don't think the PSPL is anywhere near 30K players, yet, probably closer to 7-9K.

So, its back to your question.   Where did they go, and why?   Oregon?   Basketball?   Lacrosse? 

[Soccer Wonk]

Assuming the source is the same document, the membership fees are spread across line items 1000i, 1010i and 2500i. Add those line items divided by the player fee, it's in the neighborhood of 124,000 players.

The original poster said the 87,000 figure came from "National". From the National Association of Realtors? The National Audubon Society?

[wit]

I might be able to shed a little light on this subject.

Every month US Youth Soccer release a registration report which indicates what each State has. What you have  probably seen (or been told) is the number from Washingtons current registration statistics and not what they will be at the end of the year. Most State Associatiosn report every few months and typicaly before Christmas they do not contain most of the Fall high school players.  Come Spring time the numbers all begin to fall into place and the final picture is painted.

Washington did report well over 100,000 players last year to US Youth Soccer.

[tripleplay]

I don't know where you get your information, but anyone that bothered to do the division on last years budget vs actual could see the membership had dropped under 100K.  Its not surprising to hear it dropped under 90K the following year.
I don't think WSYSA ever reached 135K, they liked to include all the players in Washington that are playing soccer anywhere in their numbers;

Can you substantiate?

[wit]

Just so everyone is aware..

Region IV Registrations were as follows as of August of this year

Alaska   6675
Arizona   29882
California No.   197239
California So.   136574
Colorado   66399
Hawaii   5503
Idaho   11700
Montana   10402
New Mexico 20336
Nevada   12612
Oregon   39339
Utah   38000
Washington113918
Wyoming   5901
Region IV Total   694,480

[Islander]

sorted by number:

Cal N   197,239    28%
Cal S   136,574    20%
Washington   113,918    16%
Colorado   66,399    10%
Oregon   39,339    6%
Utah    38,000    5%
 Arizonz   29,882    4%
New Mexico   20,336    3%
Nevada   12,612    2%
Idaho   11,700    2%
Montana   10,402    1%
Alaska   6,675    1%
Wyoming   5,901    1%
Hawaii   5,503    1%