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TOP Soccer Stars Program
The Santa Cruz County Youth Soccer League is starting a new soccer program called TOP Soccer for this Fall soccer season! TOP Soccer or Stars as we call it here in Santa Cruz County is a soccer program for players with special needs.
We are currently accepting registrations for the Fall season! To learn more and download registration form go to: Stars Registration.
Please email us at topsoccerstars@sccysl.org or call us at 461-1641
For more information:
Santa Cruz Classic for Division 3

This
years Santa Cruz Classic for Division 3 teams will take place on September
27th and 28th, 2008.
For more information visit the Tournaments Page
If you are interested in being a referee for the Santa Cruz Classic please contact Susie Novak with the following information: Name, age, days & times available, position preferred (CR or AR), and the years you have been a referee for.
Coaching Clinics 2008
Coaching clinics are posted on the Coaches page for F, E and E/D Licenses'. These clinics are free.
2008 Referee classes
Any child 12 and above or adult who wants to become a PAID referee, needs to take the Class 8 Referee Class and the following club's are hosting classes on the following dates.
Depending on the age of the game that you are the referee for and whether you are center or assistant, you can make $25 - $35 per game. We offer training and practice to make you a good referee. You can do 1-3 games in a row and make good money. Your referee schedule can work around your own game schedule if you are playing. You will need to buy your referee attire but you will be reimbursed the more games that you do and the more experienced you get.

Come Support the
National Premier Soccer League
Santa Cruz Breakers
Come have fun and watch a game - cheer them on! View their upcoming season schedule (.pdf).
All Home Games will be held at the Cabrillo College, Carl Connley Stadium.
Tickets $7.00 Adult, $5.00 Students, $3.00 Youth, Under 10 Free.
For more information visit the web site.
Santa Cruz Jaws-92 Mid-fielder, Shaylene Schmidt,
Cover Girl for Nike Soccer Camp
Shaylene Schmidt, a mid-fielder for the Santa Cruz Jaws-92 Under-15 Girls Soccer Team, is the cover girl for the 2007 Nike Soccer Camps Catalog, a nationally distributed mailer promoting soccer camps in 12 locations across the United States including UCSC. She joins teammate Sarah Banks, a leading scorer for the Jaws-92 team, in an inside photograph. The camp is the same camp mentioned in an August 8, 2006 Santa Cruz Sentinel report of the Jaws-92 shoot-out victory in the San Jose Magic Cup tournament.
There are eight Santa Cruz Jaws teams in the Santa Cruz City Youth Soccer Club for girls 8-18 playing Division 3 Advanced Soccer.
Tryouts are held in April and May.
Contact Todd Tsukushi 831-420-1930
What are Division I and III?
A parents / soccer players guide to playing soccer in Santa Cruz County
English / Spanish
Spread the joy of soccer!
Donate your uniforms (shirts, shorts, socks, and/or shoes) to youth in Mexico, Rwanda, Guatemala & other countries, that have none! Excel Soccer Club (Santa Cruz Counties recreational co-ed spring soccer league for kids U6 through U16) will deliver them by post or in person!
Contact Gabriel or Audrey at 429-9511 or drop your uniforms off on their front porch at 310 Morrissey Blvd in Santa Cruz (look for solar panels on roof). Don't let your outgrown or worn uniforms & shoes sit in a drawer unused! One world, one game!
-- In case you are wondering if the clothes ever really get to these kids, check out these photos from a 2007 trip to a Rwandan orphanage!
Guide for Parents
San Andreas Youth Soccer Organization (SAYSO) has published
a web version of its guide for parents who are looking
at competitive (club, select, etc.) soccer for the first
time. This guide addresses the most common questions asked
by "new" parents
and is available here:
http://www.sayso.org/newparents.html
Silicon Valley Soccer Complex
Needs Your Support!
Over the past decade, the CYSA-N District II
Leagues (including teams from Santa Cruz County), have been
using the 13-field Soccer Complex located in Morgan Hill.
This facility is owned by the City of Morgan Hill and currently
leased to CYSA-N. In June 2006, Morgan Hill will no longer
be available to us.
The vision of the San Jose soccer Complex Foundation
is to design, construct, own and operate a regional soccer
complex that will allow youth soccer leagues to have a first-rate
facility close to home.
Soccer as a sport continues to grow in the
Bay Area; the time to act is NOW !!!
Soccer is the fastest growing sport in the
US. California is the top soccer state with 2+ million youth
players and the Metro Bay Area is the 4th largest soccer
market in the U.S.
Status of the Campaign:
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Set Fund Raising Goal at $7 million
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Hired Essex & Drake Fund Raising
Counsel
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Continuing Parent Awareness Campaign
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Meeting with League Presidents and Coordinators
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Assessing Potential Major Donors
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Creating Partnerships and Advisory Board
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Fundraising includes major gifts, foundation
gifts, corporate gifts and sponsorships, individual gifts
and in-kind donations.
WE NEED:
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Volunteers for Committee
Work
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Names
of Prospective Leaders and/or Donors
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Feedback on ways to communicate with
your League and Club members
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Your League to develop a fundraising
strategy to assist with raising money to build
the Complex
CONTACT: www.siliconvalleysoccercomplex.com
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U19 SCC Breakers
88 Soccer Team Win Unprecedented 5th State
Championship
May
3, 2008 Morgan Hill, CA - The Santa Cruz County Breakers 88 soccer team won
their third consecutive State Championship this afternoon beating Placer United
Gold 4-1 in the U19 CYSA-N State Finals in Morgan Hill Sports Complex. It is the
Breakers 88 and fifth Championship in six years, a feat never before
accomplished by a boys youth soccer team in Northern California, the victory
earns the Breakers 88 their sixth trip to the US Youth Soccer Association Far
West Regional Tournament in Hawaii.

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Simon Evans opened the scoring after
30 minute of hard fought soccer on a rebound from a low driven shot from 25
yards out by Jose Gonzalez. Erik Espinoza doubled the tally before half time on
a penalty kick after being taken down in the box after a superb run through the
Placer defense. The third goal came middle of the second half when Jose Gonzalez
volleyed a ball out of the air past a diving Placer keeper. Jerry Marmolejo, who
has scored five goals in this tournament, scored the final Breakers goal when he
curled a shot around an on-rushing defender just inside the far post.
The
select soccer team coached for the past 9 years by Bob Poser and Bob Evans
departs for
Honolulu
,
Hawaii
on June 15th to vie for it’s first birth
in the USYSA National Championship in North Little
Rock Arkansas, July
22-27.
U18 BREAKERS 88B WIN FOURTH CYSA-N STATE CHAMPIONSHIP; BIRTH TO FIFTH USYSA REGIONALS!
April 29, 2007 – Livermore, CA. The U18 boys Santa Cruz County Breaker Soccer team won their fourth State Championship today. It is the Breakers 88B fourth CYSA-N championship in five years and results in their fifth trip to the United States Youth Soccer Association Far West Regional Tournament, where the boys were semifinalists in 2006 (losing 1—0 to three three-time National Champions Arsenal from Cal South. The Breakers 88 B beat the San Juan Thunder 3-2 on Sunday in a double overtime, ‘barn-burner’ of a match.
Read the whole story!

Santa Cruz Breakers 88G pose
with Mia Hamm!!!
This wonderful photo of the Santa Cruz Breakers 88G with Mia Hamm was taken in Raleigh, North Carolina, where the girls played at the College Showcase during the Women's College Cup Final this weekend. Breakers 88G had a great weekend and showed very well in front of many college coaches. After this weekend, about half of the players have been contacted and recruited by college coaches to play at their school.
The Breakers 88G played against Colorado State Cup finalist, Real Colorado and beat them 4-0. The second game finished 0-0 against the Ohio State Champs, Cleveland Cobras, and on day 3 they lost against Virginia State Champs, Virginia Beach FC.
The team attended both semifinals of the Women's College Cup and the final between North Carolina and Notre Dame. It was a great experience for our club! Our Breakers teams will go again to this tournament in the future.
For Past Soccer News see: News!
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