Cathedral School soccer coach Dennis Hogue and the Lady Green Wave finished their spring season at an undefeated 12-0 on Tuesday, but there was no trophy, no championship banner or even a certificate in their honor.

The Mississippi Association for Independent Schools this spring allowed all schools with a soccer program to participate in a girls spring soccer league as a trial run for potentially moving the official season from the fall. After what Hogue said he considered a successful run, Cathedral, Adams County Christian School and the remainder of the MAIS soccer programs will keep their girls season beginning in the late summer.

“I’m not sure how they determined that,” Hogue said. “From our standpoint, we loved it.”

In the decision to move the season, Hogue, ACCS soccer coach Jim Bob Allgood, among others, participated in a survey provided by the MAIS on their thoughts of the spring league.

MAIS Director of Activities Les Tripplett said he did not remember when the survey was made available, but that coaches were given ample time to review the season.

“We took a count, and there was just not enough interest,” Tripplett said. “We’ve been talking about this for three or four years so they knew it was coming.”

Hogue, on the other hand, expressed his concern that participating schools were not given the chance to express their support for the move.

Hogue said all schools with soccer programs were notified the MAIS elected not to move the season on April 3 — the same day as Cathedral’s second game of the spring league.

“I guess they just assumed that schools that didn’t participate didn’t want soccer in the spring,” Hogue said. “Everybody that did participate expressed their love for it.”

Allgood agreed that he felt that ACCS’ opinions were not heard to their fullest potential.

Both Cathedral and ACCS are MAIS Class AAA schools, often not having as many athletes at their disposal as opposed to larger Class AAAA schools.

“It was more of a bummer that it would not be truly looked at to see what could work best for the smaller schools,” Allgood said. “It would be a blessing for us to play in the spring. It was a great proposal by the smaller schools to try and take pressure off the sports the girls play.”

Of the benefits to playing in spring, Hogue said, girls soccer players are not faced with as many weather challenges. As opposed to temperatures in the rising 80s and 90s, Tuesday’s weather capped at a comfortable 75 degrees.

Additionally, many athletes, Hogue said, choose not to play soccer in the fall because it interferes with softball and cheer. In the spring it would interfere with track and tennis.

“Wherever you put soccer or softball, it will interfere,” Tripplett said. “There were varying opinions about the matter. Personnel were also a part of it. Some schools already had set coaches for certain sports and didn’t want to hire others.”

Hogue and Allgood both said their spring rosters were larger than those in the fall, and that many athletes enjoyed the chance to play a sport they previously did not have time for.

Though the decision is set in stone, Tripplett said the debate could rise again at any time.

“There is always room for change,” he said. “We are here to serve the schools, but to make a major move such as moving a season, it has to be a significant majority.”

Hogue said he wasn’t so sure.

“Everything has been perfect, but I really think they won’t change it,” he said. “If the MAIS had actually said this was the official new season, everyone would have had a great turnout. But since they gave us an option to try it out, there was no pressure.”

Allgood agreed.

“It could have been a win-win, but the numbers have spoken,” he said. “The season overall has been a pleasure. I just don’t know if it’ll ever change.”

ACCS will play its final home game of the spring league at 6 tonight.