Senior Signs To Play Soccer at Birmingham-Southern

Surrounded by faculty, family, and friends, Indian Springs School senior Sydney Barrow ’17 signed a national letter of intent today to play Division III soccer at Birmingham-Southern College.

 

Barrow, Co-Captain of Springs’ Varsity Soccer team, helped lead the team to the first round of the 2016 state soccer playoffs. She was also named to the 2016 All-Metro team during her junior year, when she scored 24 goals in 23 games—more than any other high school player, in any classification, in the Birmingham Metro area. Barrow, a forward, has supplemented her high school seasons by playing club soccer for the Birmingham United Soccer Association (BUSA) 98 Premier team and Olympic Development Program soccer.

 

“Scoring more goals last season than any player in the Birmingham METRO in any classification [AHSAA 1A-7A] puts Sydney in the top two or three goal scorers in the state,” said Indian Springs Girls Soccer Coach Hunter Gray. “But if you look at her career at Indian Springs, you can see that she is very much a team-oriented player. She came in as a forward, but we had forwards, so she played outside midfield as a freshman and outside back as a sophomore. Last year we needed goals, so she moved to forward.

 

“Birmingham-Southern is definitely getting a quality player but also a quality person who will do whatever she is asked to do,” continued Gray. “Very proud of her today. Thank you for coming out to celebrate this with her.”

 

“I’m relieved that it’s official,” says Barrow, who also received an offer to play soccer at Huntingdon College in Montgomery. “Birmingham-Southern reminds me a lot of Indian Springs—everyone is friendly, and the campus is really pretty. The coach [at Birmingham-Southern] is rebuilding the team. We go through that a lot here as players graduate—rebuilding and improving the team to get better.

 

“That’s one of the things I like most about Springs soccer,” she says. “With some teams, the players don’t help each other because they’re all fighting to be a leader. At Springs, everyone helps each other to improve. It’s not always about having a group of girls where everyone as an individual player is amazing. If you have individuals who know each other, and know how to work and defend together, that’s so important.”

 

Congratulations, Sydney!