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Now Affiliated with SC Del Sol

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Yavapai Soccer is now affiliated with SC Del Sol.

SC Del SolWhat does it mean to you?

  • Why SC Del Sol?
    They are one of the top clubs in Phoenix and their competitive program is the best in the state.  SC Del Sol is a Nike Premier Club, their oldest girls’ teams participate in the Elite Clubs National League (ECNL), the country’s elite, invitation only league for female athletes of which they are a founding member. Their oldest boys’ teams participate in the Western College Development Academy (WCDA) and the National Premier League. Both of these leagues are also invitation only and are comprised of the top boys clubs in the US.  We believe that their coaches and their methods can raise the level of play in the area to move us up the competitive ladder by helping us produce better coaches and players.  Their coaches have a massive wealth of knowledge that we can draw on holding NSCAA, USSF and UEFA licenses.
  • What does this mean to you the competitive player?
    Yavapai Soccer coaches will have access to SC Del Sol coaches as a way of mentoring themselves and their teams.  We will be bringing in SC Del Sol coaches for training sessions and classes to improve our coaching and our coaches as well as going to them.  SC Del Sol coaches will be available for and will be utilized to train Yavapai teams at coach request.  We will also have access to and begin utilizing the SC Del Sol curriculum.  There may also be loan opportunities for players.
  • What does this mean to you the recreational player?
    Yavapai will utilize SC Del Sol for coaching classes for our recreational coaches prior to the season.
  • Will this cost the average player more money?
    Additional costs to players will be minimal.  Overall club fees will remain below what others are paying and if you are on scholarship those fees will be even less.

This is not an attempt to expand SC Del Sol but an opportunity for Yavapai to utilize the resources of what we believe is the top club in Phoenix in a way that helps Yavapai to grow stronger and produce better players and coaches.  As the affiliation grows there will be camp opportunities that we expect to develop, as well as other opportunities we will explore.

Yavapai Soccer’s U14 Boys Win Mile High Tournament

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Yavapai Soccer League boys U14 team won the Mile High Classic Tournament in Prescott with a tournament record of 3 wins and 1 tie, and outscoring opponents 19-2.

They entered the final game of the tourney needing two goals and a shut-out and came away with a 4-0 win. This has been a great season for this team and they will begin play next season in the AYSA Port of Subs League at U15.

Tryouts for the team will be June 29 at 9 a.m. at Mountain Valley Park in Prescott Valley. Visit www.yavapaisoccer.com for more information.

Featured in the photo: Coaches Mike Green, far left, and Craig Hacker, far right; back row, left to right: Chris Sterling, Evan Villar, Jose Meijia, Josh Castro, Cody Hacker, Brandon Fischer, Miguel Alvarez; front row: Joffrey Hammit, Steven Castro, Toby Edelstein, Garret Minarik, Shuler Cohan, Ricky Ayala, Nick Othon.

Click here to read the article in the Prescott Valley Tribune.

 

Yavapai Cup Tournament brings 1000s to Prescott Area

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The annual Yavapai Cup soccer tournament for boys took place April 5-7, 2013, while the girls’ tourney was April 12-14, at 17 fields in Prescott Valley, Prescott and Chino Valley. More than 185 teams, with clubs for ages 7-18, registered, and brought 5,000 people to the quad-city area with an estimated economic impact of $3.5 milllion over the two weekends

Shown here are the local Yavapai Soccer U14 boys and U8 girls.

Yavapai U8 Malia Green controls the soccer ball as teammate Felicity Cohan moves in to help at Mountain Valley Park in Prescott Valley on April 14 during the Yavapai Cup soccer girls’ tournament.

 

Yavapai Roughriders U14 goalkeeper Joshua Castro winds up to send the soccer ball to a teammate during the Yavapai Cup boys’ soccer tournament April 7. The game ended in 1-1 tie with the Sonora Force. The Roughriders placed second in their bracket.

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Yavapai Soccer U11 Boys, First Place in Tourney

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The Yavapai Soccer U11 boys took first place in the recent Stars and Stripes tournament in Phoenix. They won the championship game in the silver bracket 3-1, and finished with a tournament record of 3 wins, 0 losses and 1 draw. Yavapai Soccer is located in Prescott Valley and hosts the annual Yavapai Cup Soccer Tournament, the largest in the area with more than 180 teams expected this year.

Back row: Shane Workman, Andrew Rojas, Geronimo Sotelo, Jared Gittins, Jet Burginger and Dalton Mitchell. Front row: Nathan Vaca, Trystan Cohan, Jonathon Hernandez, Mark Madler and Christopher Campbell. Coaches: Shane Burginger and Jim Workman.

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Yavapai Cup Soccer Tournament Returns to Prescott area

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Yavapai Cup TournamentThe Daily Courier

Spring dew clings to tangled branches below dusk-twilight in the greater Prescott area. In the distance, at the periphery of audible sensation, faint buzzing heralds a swarm of soccer players.

They’ll descend in a three-day flurry beginning today, some 4,000 people, including 132 youth teams from Arizona, California, New Mexico and Utah.

They’ll storm 21 soccer fields, including municipal fields in Prescott Valley and Chino and the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University field, in Prescott.

But, unlike a locust plague, the 18th annual Yavapai Cup soccer tournament leaves a positive aftermath of skill-level matched games and local revenue.
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Yavapai Soccer U13 Boys Team Wins First Place at Blackhawks Tournament

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Yavapai Cup Soccer TournamentThe Daily Courier

Yavapai Soccer’s U13 Boys team competed in the Blackhawks Invitational SoccerTournament Feb 25-26 and won the second division in overwhelming fashion, besting two Division I teams and a Division II team in the process.

The team won the final game in a shootout to take the crown.

This is another tournament win for this young team as they move up in divisions and standings in the state.
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Yavapai Soccer U10 Boys Team Wins First Place at Shoot for the Stars Tournament

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Yavapai Cup TournamentThe Daily Courier

The Yavapai Soccer U10 boys team took first place in the CCV Shoot for the Stars tournament this past wekend. It was their first tournament of the year, they are off to a great start.

The teams players include: Dillon Harwood, Britton Carver, Dalton Mitchell, Ian Torp, Francisco Butterworth, Shane Workman, Andrew Rojas, Jet Burginger, Geronimo Sotelo, Jonathon hernandez and Nathan Vaca. Coaches: Jim Workman, Shawn Vaca and Shane Burginger.

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Youth Soccer Teammates Play Each Other for Championship

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Prescott Valley Tribune

Local youth soccer coach Craig Hacker didn’t know he would be pitted against himself in the finals of the 3v3 Live Soccer Tournament May 21 at the Snedigar Sports Complex in Chandler.

But that’s what happened after he split his Yavapai Soccer Under-12 team in half to enter the tourney, which allows just six players per team, and both squads made it to the title game.

The green squad handed the white squad its only loss of the tournament in the championship game, and both teams qualified for the 3v3.

“They have worked so hard in the past season earning them no less than third place in every tournament we entered this year,” said Hacker. “I am proud to be their coach.”

“That’s one happy coach and a bunch of happy kids,” said Yavapai spokesman John Sterling.

He said each squad played four games in one day in 100-degree heat. The fast game is played on a smaller field (40-feet long by 30-feet wide or about one-fourth the size of a regulation field) in 10-minute halves.

He added, “This particular group of boys has been playing together for about two years without any major additions or deletions from the roster. Both teams were unchallenged on the day scoring over 25 goals each. They beat teams from San Tan soccer club in Phoenix, The Tigers and local team Vardar.”

Sterling noted the very young U10 boys, playing in their first 3v3 tourney, improved every game.

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Soccer tournaments give a kick to business for area hotels, restaurants

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The Daily Courier

Don Prince, director of tourism for the City of Prescott, recalls taking his son, Chris, to Prescott from Scottsdale to participate in the Mile High Classic regional soccer tournament. Prince’s son is now an adult, but dad now takes in the tournament from a different perspective: soccer players and their families filling hotel rooms, tables and booths in restaurants and buying other merchandise and services.

“Mile High pretty much sells out all the hotels,” Prince said, referring to the tournament that the American Youth Soccer Organization sponsored from Friday through Sunday. Citing a study that the city’s Parks and Recreation Department conducted, he said Mile High drew 1,060 participants [70 teams] in 2010. He added the estimated direct spending amounted to $273,000 from visitors and $22,500 from participants from the tri-city area … Continue reading →