CONGRATULATIONS to the SYC U9G Lions White and SYC U12G Pride White for their exemplary display of sportsmanship, fair play, and positive support toward the referee, the opposition parents and players, and their own team parents and players. NOTE: if your coach does not complete and mail these cards kept by the manager each week your team cannot be considered to win. 

U9 - FSC United Blue, SYC LIONS WHITE, SYA Cardinals 00 Red, ASC Sparks Gold

U10 – MCLN Real Green, FASA Elite 99, MCLN Real White, CHAN Shock

U11 – LMVS Patriots Red, LOUD 98G White, MSC Black Stallions, MSC White Stallions

U12 – NVSC Jr. Majestics 97 Blue, SYC PRIDE WHITE

U13 – DCST Metros Blue 96, REST Comets 96, FREE Wolverines, FASA Premier 96, ALEX Lightning, CYA Galaxy

U14 – VSA Heat Gold, HERN Curve, FRED FC Frederick, WIN United 95G

U15 – MCLN MPS Power, SYA Arsenal

U16 – NVSC Jr. Majestics 93, BSU Starz, WALD Eagles

U17 – FCSC United 92

TRYOUTS: Tuesday, Jan. 26 at West Springfield High School from 5:30 - 7:30 and Sunday, Jan. 31 at South Run Field #5 from 5:00 - 7:00. For more info contact Coaches Ruben Aristondo  rubenaristondo@yahoo.com; and Don Cheney susancheney@verizon.net

The U-16 Monsoon Girls soccer team is seeking to add committed and talented players for the Spring 2010 season. We are looking for competitive and skilled players who love the game and are looking to develop and refine their skills physically and mentally. Our team combines skills training, athleticism, fitness development and a positive environment to help dedicated players reach their true potential. If you are interested in learning more about the Monsoon winter practice schedule contact Sully Hamid at Premieracsoccer@aol.com or Dave Gallagher at drglaw7921@cox.net

U13G SYC Thunder Red is looking for 1-2 talented and experienced players to complete its U13 roster for the spring season. Contact our Team Manager, Rich McMahon at  rmcmahon@eei.org

U13B - Surge Blue is looking for 1-2 talented and experienced players to
complete its U13 roster for the spring season. Contact our Team Manager,
Jeff Landau at landaujl@aol.com  or 703-863-5812

 

The SYC Arsenal rising U-15 Girls are looking for a few talented players to add to our squad for the Winter and Spring Season. Team focus is on foot skills, moves, and passing, with the objective of preparing players for high school soccer. Please contact Ernesto Yanez, Team Manager, at 571-242-5180 or 703-403-7621 or e-mail him at sycarsenal@cox.net
 

U-14G Storm WAGS Div. 5 will be holding try outs for the Spring '10 season during the next 2 weeks during our winter practice sessions for all positions. For more information please call Coach Joe Wendlberger at  cell 703-407-7900  or email at jwendlberger@cox.net

 

SYC is forming a third U9G travel soccer team to compete in ODSL called the SYC Lions BLACK. Full training will begin in December/ January/February for the Spring 2010 season.  Open tryouts will be offered to anyone interested in December.

Send an email to travel_coaches@cox.net by Friday December (18th) if interested or to ask questions and receive nights and times on the tryout process at South Run Park Turf field #5.
 

Below are the results from those SYC teams this Fall in NCSL, ODSL, and WAGS for those teams that keep records and standings.

NCSL club winning percentage 57%

ODSL club winning percentage 57%

WAGS club winning percentage 64%

From the Lynchburg Website which named Audrey Moore the "Hornet of the Week".. Freshman goalie Audrey Moore had played just 90 minutes this season heading into the Hornet women's soccer game against Trinity University Sunday in San Antonio, TX, in the NCAA Division III Tournament. When sophomore honorable mention All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) goalie Anna Wright went down with an injury 15 minutes into play, Moore stepped up in the biggest game in program history.  Moore was un-scored upon in her 96:34 between the pipes, making two stops, as the two teams fought to a 1-1 double overtime tie. The Hornets would advance to its first Final Four in team history by outscoring the Tigers 4-2 in the penalty kick shootout, with Moore stopping two of the four shots she faced.  

Named the Great West Conference Coach of the Year in his first year as the head coach of the Howard University Bison Women’s Soccer Team.  Brent Leiba comes to Howard with several years of coaching experience at various levels of competition. He has been on the coaching staff of the Washington Freedom since 2001 and was the head girls varsity coach at Robert E. Lee High School in Springfield, Va. Leiba was also served stints as the head coach and head athletic trainer with the Springfield Youth Club Xtreme, Lee Mount Vernon club team and Springfield Youth Club Xplosion.  A 2001 graduate of George Mason, Leiba was a four-year letterwinner on the Patriot soccer team and received academic honors during his tenure at GMU.

If you have non-SYC teams on your home game fields on weekends without a county permit for that time that will not peacefully depart, and you cannot get in touch with NCSL Bob Ray, ODSL Camille Gaviola, WAGS Gene Thomas, SYC Office Carolyn Brennan via cell phone, make sure you have a printed copy of the SYC Field permit ready and call the County Field Monitor at  703-324-5515, you may have to leave a message but they have folks on call on weekends. If all else fails, contact 703-691-2131 (Police, non-emergency). Avoid confrontation, just let them know who you are calling to resolve the conflict which hopefully will encourage them to leave peacefully.

Players will normally play in their own age group. Request for exception to this policy will be considered only by the Travel Commissioner in the following circumstances: 

April 21, 2008 Washington Post Article extract:

The three Carroll brothers Brian age 26, Jeff age 24, and Pat age 22 played at West Springfield High School and for Division I programs before making it to MLS.

The 1968 Springfield Boys’ Club Football and Soccer Combined Yearbook has a letter from Soccer Commissioner John Park: "The 1968 season was the first year of organized soccer for the Springfield Boys’ Club.  In 1967 the pilot program started with about 45 boys.  This year the program attracted 86 boys who were divided into five teams."

In the 1969 Springfield Boys’ Club Football and Soccer Combined Yearbook, Soccer Commissioner John Park indicated: "This was the second full season of soccer and it was a good season.  With the addition of the team from Braddock Road Boys Club to our 100 boys we were able to have a six-team league and a ten game season." (Note:  While this league had both SBC and BRBC teams, it was a recreation level team - not travel.) 

In the 1970 Springfield Boys’ Club Football and Soccer Combined Yearbook, Soccer Commissioner John Park stated: "The Springfield Boys Club soccer program had an encouraging growth this past year from 101 to 135 players.  This permitted us to form leagues divided according to ages.  We had two teams of 8-9 year olds in a league of four with Braddock Road Boys Club and five teams of 10-13 year olds plus one team from Braddock Road to form the intermediate league age.  We also had a team of older boys (Senior Darts) who were unaffiliated in a league though they were able to find plenty of competition."

Fall of 1970 newspaper clippings regarding games that the Senior Darts played against teams from Braddock Road, Lee-Mt. Vernon, and Hayfield. Spring of 1970 newspaper articles reference another team called the Springfield Boys Club Rangers. The best article is a Springfield Independent (the local newspaper dated April 23, 1970 - entitled: "Boys Club Soccer": "The Springfield Boys Club soccer team, the Springfield Rangers, defeated the Braddock Road Boys Club 3-0 on Sunday in their first game of the spring season.  The Rangers are entered in the Juvenile Division (ages 12-14) of the National Soccer League of Washington, along with teams from Braddock Road, Annandale , Hyattsville, and D.C."

So that puts the origin of Springfield Travel Soccer back to 1970 and House Soccer to 1967-1968.

SYC Soccer is continuing the highly successful “Bridge” Soccer program for the Fall 2009 season.  The program seeks to identify rising Under-8 boys and girls in the Fall (current Under-7 boys and girls this past Spring) that have genuine interest/enthusiasm for the game, have acquired/developed a very basic soccer aptitude faster than many of their teammates, classmates and neighbors and would like to play with children of similar outlook on the game.

The program begins with the selection of qualified and interested coaches. Candidates must meet the criterion developed by the SYC Soccer Commissioners. Candidates are selected following submission of an application "package" that includes a soccer resume, sample training plan, have conducted a "basic" youth training session, licensing courses and completed identifiable seminars and conferences.

Reminder, for KIDSAFE purposes, no names embroidered on uniforms, warm-ups, team sweatshirts, or backpacks. For backpacks only, initials are ok or small hanging tags are ok for players to identify their own bag quickly.