Sting SC
Sting Soccer Club, also known as the Dallas Sting, Sting Dallas, Sting SC, or simply Sting, is an American-based international youth soccer club headquartered in the metropolitan area of Dallas, Texas. Established for competitive amateur girl soccer players, it currently competes in the Elite Clubs National League, among others. Founded in 1973, it is the first and oldest all girls soccer club in the country. History 1970s Sting was founded in 1973 by Bill Kinder who, with Lamar Hunt and a few key soccer pioneers put together teams of female athletes at the high school age who played in the newly created Dallas league called the High School Girls Soccer League (which became the Lake Highlands Girls Classic League). Players voted to call themselves the Sting, taking the name from the 1973 hit movie starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman. In 1976, Sting became the first girls or women's soccer team to travel outside the United States and the first to travel to Mexico. Sting faced Mexico's national champion team in Mexico City, playing before 35,000 fans in Mexico City's Olympic Stadium prior to a division one men's professional match. In 1977, Sting became the first American girls soccer team