Are all women in the United States crazy?

Women's soccer, however, never had American football to siphon off potential participants at the youth and scholastic levels (though softball and other sports attract many great women athletes). This relative lack of attention afforded the women's game in traditional soccer-playing countries may have partly led to the U.S. Women's National Team's historical dominance in international competition. Other factors include: 1) title IX, requiring college athetics programs to include women' athletics, 2) the relative equality (and especially rejection of hardened gender roles) for women in the United States relative to many other countries, and 3) the abundance of female athletic talent in the United States.