Source: WCCO.com

Wire Service: AP

http://wcco.com/sports/local_story_204133117.html

(AP) For a couple hours every morning, Muna Sanyare steps away from her duties as baby sitter, caretaker and student. On a St. Paul practice field, she becomes a soccer star.

Never mind that Muna, 15, plays in bare feet under a flowery red skirt. She can kick the heck out of that ball.

Organized soccer is luring more Muslim girls like Muna to the game, even as their religion requires them to remain covered in public. About 40 fledgling athletes on her team at Higher Ground Academy regularly swarm Dunning Field, their headscarves creating a riot of colors rippling in the wind.