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Welcome to another high school soccer season in which so many boys’ and girls’ players are coming and going that you’ll need to make a phone call or send a text to the head coach to confirm who’s playing or who’s off competing for a club team, a national team or working out with a pro team.

It’s not chaos, just another sign of the many options elite players in Southern California have to consider, and playing high school soccer isn’t exactly the No. 1 in priority in the minds of USA Soccer, club teams, college programs and pro teams.

The example of Santa Margarita’s top senior girls’ players, goalie Peyton Trayer and forward Coral Fry, is perhaps the future. They helped the Eagles

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