Plano is a massive suburban spiderweb of a city jutting out from the northwest corner of Dallas. Its buildings seem to crawl on for miles, studded by a monstrous amount of corporate headquarters that make it one of the wealthiest cities in the country.

It's also a new city. In 1970, Plano's population was just shy of 18,000. Over the next 30 years, the population boomed, exploding past its neighbors with an increase of nearly 700 percent. Once a sleepy provincial town, it's now the ninth-largest city in a state of large cities.

This explosion of people and business is no more obvious than it is in the city's school system. Once served by a single big high school, the city now houses three in Class 5A, reserved for the state's largest schools with enrollments larger than 2,000. When paired with their ninth and 10th-grade feeders, the three schools - Plano East, Plano and Plano West - if combined, would have an enrollment of 16,273 students.

Plano West is the newest of these. It split off from the branch in 1999, birthing a perfect storm of athletic talent in a school that immediately developed into a sports juggernaut across the board.

No program took off running quite like the girls' soccer program. Soccer is big in North Texas, and Plano West proved it almost immediately.

"Soccer just in North Texas in general, just the whole Dallas Metroplex, soccer is really huge," said senior defender Jalynn Barron, a Texas commit and one of the team's leaders headed into this season.  "I actually used to live in Lubbock, Texas, but we decided to relocate to the Dallas area because the soccer was so good here. I think as a whole, soccer is just a really big deal here, and it gives players a lot more opportunity college-wise."

Despite never having fielded a varsity soccer program, Plano West won state titles in each of its first three seasons in operation in 2000, 2001 and 2002. The team was so good so quickly that the 2001 team went unbeaten. The team has won six 5A state titles in all, more than any Texas high school, its most recent coming in April with a 4-1 win over fellow Metroplex school Southlake Carroll.

That win? The school's second state title in a row, putting them one away from matching the run of the early 00's of three straight. The 2012 campaign was as dominant as Plano West has ever been. The Wolves went 28-0-2 and were never even challenged with a one-goal game in the playoffs.

They may be the new kids on the block, but they more or less own the neighborhood now.

"There's been a long history of really great players that have fed into West," said coach Allie Rogosheske, who is stepping into the head coaching role this season after the departure of Carley Phillips. "It's no secret we're blessed to have a lot of good club kids on the west side of Plano that feed into our system. We've had some really great coaches that have been there as well. We've found a lot of success I guess, and we've done some really cool things the last couple years that I've been part of the program."

Phillips took over before the 2011 campaign, and Rogosheske joined on as her assistant. The partnership was enormously successful, producing a pair of state titles and a 51-3-6 record. They contributed to the long history of pulling from Plano's storied pool of elite club players and turning them out for high school soccer in numbers.

Phillips made the Southlake Carroll win her last at the school, leaving for other pastures to pave the way for Rogosheske to take the reins. When the Texas high school season cranks up in January, the Wolves will shoot for their third straight title with a brand new leader at the helm and a number of new faces on the field.

No pressure, coach.

"I'm just really excited for the opportunity to continue a lot of those great traditions that have been started by those that came before me," Rogosheske said. "And hopefully add in some new stuff to keep training exciting and to keep the girls motivated."

Plano West's 2012 season was hard to top. They spent the entire season ranked No. 1 on the NSCAA girls winter rankings, finishing there thanks to a 28-0-2 season and a matchless postseason run. The Wolves are unbeaten in their last 38, and a deep reservoir of club talent continues to fuel their run.

Plano West's setup is unique in that the Wolves draw heavily from their uber-talented JV team once the postseason rolls around. This fosters a level of depth that few programs in the country can boast.

Lakyn Pope is a prime example. As a freshman last year, Pope played for the Dallas Sting U15s, which were a top-rated team in the ECNL for much of the year. The early Oklahoma State commit also played for the Plano West JV team before being called up for the postseason. As just a freshman, Pope scored the first goal in the state title game in what eventually turned into a rout. In addition to scores of others, big-time contributor Gracie Waugh was in a nearly identical position.

Ultimately, one of Plano West's best advantages is that while some club players escape through the cracks, most decide to stick it out and play for the school in addition to their club duties. And since club soccer is in such an advanced level of maturation in the Metroplex area, Plano West benefits perhaps as much as any girls program in the country.

"For me, I love high school soccer," said Barron, a four-star player who also features for the Dallas Texans. "It kind of gave me a boost. I think it kept me more in shape. I was getting a lot more activity in fitness-wise because I was doing both. High school soccer, your team is like a family."

For now, Plano West will go about the business of reloading its roster for a run at a historic third consecutive state title and a seventh overall. If Rogosheske has anything to do with it, the Wolves will continue to be a peerless women's soccer power in one of the country's most talented cradles for soccer.

"For Plano West and the success we've had, we are just blessed to have the club kids that have stayed apart of the program," Rogosheske said. "That's a really key thing. In order to be successful you have to keep the club kids playing high school.”