Just to point out some clubs are good at female development and note that Stop out has 2 girls teams playing in open Sat morn grades and certainly want more next year happily encourage girls to come to club if they want to play with other girls
Note this 12th grade team is unbeaten so far this season and improving each week
university is only the end of it all, As it starts to fall apart at collage where if they have a good football program you are in with a chance but if they are at a "it's about participation" school and there is no challenge and development then they tend to wander into other things and football is not on their agenda anymore.
Then as you have said the University issue and also the national team (based in Auckland) issue.