Amber Clutter, Carroll County's first high school soccer All-America, signed a national letter of intent yesterday to attend Campbell College in Buies Creek, N.C.
Clutter, a senior at South Carroll, lives in the tiny village of Taylorsville and is headed for a town that has only a few thousand people.
"The college is about the whole town," said Clutter.
"I'm excited to be going down there and will really try to give it my best shot for four years since there is really nothing left to play after college soccer. It's going to be fun playing against super Division I teams like North Carolina and Wake Forest."
South Carroll coach Jim Horn said she made a good decision in choosing Campbell over other Division I schools in Maryland or in the Northeast.
"People don't realize how big women's soccer is down in the South," said Horn. "The women's team at Campbell gets treated like football because the school doesn't have a football team. They go all out for the games, with pep rallies and things like that."
Campbell coach Rick Helms said Clutter is entering the school's soccer program at the right time.
"We have 10 of 11 starters returning from last year and we've signed some really good recruits," he said. "We're bringing Amber in to start right away at a striker position and I expect her to be an explosive scorer right off the bat."
Helms said that Clutter reads the game well.
"Amber will take pressure off our big scorer from last year, Jennifer Stephenson, who was being double- and triple-teamed," said Helms. "If they try to do that again, Amber will eat them up. She is not afraid to go to the ball or through the ball. She is the kind of athlete who can adapt without too much trouble to soccer at the Division I level."
Helms believes the addition of Clutter will help the Camels make it to the NCAA Division I regionals.