The Daily Courier

Youth soccer teams from Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico will kick up their heels at area fields starting Friday in the [seventh] Annual Yavapai Cup.

The event, which has grown from 112 teams to 144 this year, will be hosted by Yavapai Soccer.

“Part of the attraction is the weather,” Yavapai Soccer president Mary Sterling said. “It’s so hot in the Valley. And we have so many nice fields to play on up here thanks to the City of Prescott Valley.” Continue reading →

Prescott Valley Tribune

Former Bradshaw Mountain standout boys soccer player Oscar Irvin Juvera died in a swimming accident in Utah on Friday.

Juvera, 20, who was from Prescott Valley, was at the Sand Hollow Reservoir as part of a Dixie College of Utah-sponsored kayaking trip.

“On behalf of Dixie State College, we want to extend our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Oscar Juvera,” DSC President Dr. Stephen D. Nadauld said in the release. “Our hearts and prayers go out to his family and as a campus family, we join them in mourning his loss at this time.”

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Prescott Valley Tribune

Prescott Valley experienced its own British Invasion of sorts when Challenger Sports set up its British Soccer Camp June 28 through July 2 on the amphitheater soccer field.

With the Yavapai College soccer scoreboard looming from field’s edge, 85 aspiring soccer stars as young as 2 braved the heat to learn British-style “football” from five young coaches

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The Daily Courier

Youth soccer teams from as far away as Vancouver, Canada, and Colorado will descend on the tri-city area this Friday through Sunday for the annual Yavapai Cup.

Yavapai Soccer, an Arizona Youth Soccer Association (AYSA) member celebrating two decades in Prescott Valley this year, is playing host to the tournament.

Mary Sterling, YSL president, said that as of Sunday 111 teams of 7- to 18-year-old boys and girls from across Arizona as well as Colorado, New Mexico and Vancouver were registered for the event.

Ed Andert, who doubles as the 2010 Yavapai Cup’s director, said the clubs will bring an estimated 3,300-plus visitors and provide an economic impact of at least $1 million over the three-day weekend. Continue reading →

Prescott Valley Tribune

Hundreds of children ages 3 through 18 participate each fall in the Yavapai Soccer League’s 10-week recreation program.

But YSL also supports a half-dozen select competitive teams for a season that spans September through April. Two U11 (under 11) teams, one U13 team and one U16 team exist for boys, and a U12 and a U16 team for girls are forming. The league encompasses the Quad City area, and in fact, all of Yavapai County.

“Yavapai Soccer caters to every type of player from recreation to serious,” said new coaching director Philip Reid, who also is head boys’ soccer coach at Bradshaw Mountain High School. Continue reading →

The Daily Courier

If soccer’s your game, your weekend plans are set.

One week after AYSO hosted a 72-team tournament to close its season, the Yavapai Soccer League (YSL) ups the ante with a 94-team field for the Yavapai Cup. The event is expected to draw more than 1,400 players.

“The tournament has grown significantly this year so we’re pretty much managing it as best we can,” Tournament Director Ed Andert said Tuesday. “It got very popular this year … the popularity of the tournament has just mushroomed.”

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