Houston area productive outside backs

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Texas continues its tradition of developing elite soccer talent on the girls' side, with prospects emerging from every corner of the Lone Star State to display tremendous potential and, at times, even make it to the US Youth National Teams.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Every now and then, we'll have weekly series highlighting a few of those talented players, but as they say, everything is bigger in Texas, so we'll need to do it in part, focusing on one region at a time.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>We start with the Houston area and these are some of the outside backs who do a very good job:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:acf/evaluation-block {"name":"acf/evaluation-block","data":{"player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":["not_in_db"],"_player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":"field_62aba48cecf2d","player_evaluations_0_player_details_selected_featured_image":"","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_selected_featured_image":"field_62cca28ffa4e7","player_evaluations_0_player_details_player_name":"Kate Ornelas","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_player_name":"field_62aba4c9ecf2f","player_evaluations_0_player_details_graduating_class":"2024","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_graduating_class":"field_62aba4ddecf30","player_evaluations_0_player_details_height":"null","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_height":"field_62aba4e8ecf31","player_evaluations_0_player_details_position":"101","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_position":"field_62aba4f0ecf32","player_evaluations_0_player_details_school":"Bridgeland","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_school":"field_62aba4fdecf33","player_evaluations_0_player_details_club_team":"Dynamos SC","_player_evaluations_0_player_details_club_team":"field_62d20e723441a","player_evaluations_0_player_details":"","_player_evaluations_0_player_details":"field_62aba4afecf2e","player_evaluations_0_evaluation":"Ornelas is one of the captains of her high school team Bridgeland and plays club for Dynamos SC 06/05 in the ECNL Regional League. 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