The GU13 White coached by Michal Lynn and the GU11 White coached by Eric Chai just completed the 3-day tournament in Mission Viejo winning the Pats Cup. Both teams dominated play and proved to be the best team in the tournament by winning it all.
ALBION SC 2010 NATIONAL CHAMPION FINALISTS & OSCAR ORTEGA NAMED MVP OF THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
The Albion SC BU15 team played Baltimore Bays in the National Championship after playing Lamont Raiders(1-1 tie), Vardar(0-0), and Baltimore Bays(2-0 win). The championship game went into double overtime with Baltimore winning the game by the score of 2-1. The Albion SC team has completed the National Championship run and has finished 2nd in the Nation. * Note: Albion SC had beaten Baltimore the day before 2-0 and defeated them 1-0 in the US National League.
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ALBION CUP NATIONAL SHOWCASE CHAMPIONS: BU16 WHITE, GU16 WHITE, GU17, & BU10 WHITE
The BU16 White and GU16 White coached by Noah Gins both won the V Elite Brackets of the Albion Cup Showcase. The GU17 coached by Beto Villela and BU10 White coached by Jeff Naiman also won the Showcase division of the Albion Cup.
ALBION SC CLAIM THE ROAD TO TOTTENHAM TITLE BY WINNING THE USA CUP V ELITE BRACKET
The BU16 White have just won the USA Cup played in Blaine, Minnesota. This tournament is linked to the Albion Cup National Showcase and after Albion SC won the Albion Cup 2009 they were set to play in the USA Cup. The USA Cup was the final stage on the "Road to Tottenham" and after defeating a team from Haiti, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Costa Rica the team has earned a sponsored trip to England (Tottenham) by Puma. The team scored 12 goals and gave up 0 to earn the club the first USA Cup Championship.
ALBION SC ADDS 2 MORE PLAYERS TO THE US NATIONAL TEAM POOL
The BU14 Premier coached by Roy Lassiter has just added 2 players to the US Regional Team and they will be heading to New Jersey in August as part of the US U14 National Team Pool. Congratulations Pablo and Memo for making the US National Team Pool.
ALBION SC BU14 WHITE AND BU12 WHITE ADVANCE TO SEMI FINALS AND QUARTERFINALS OF SURF CUP
Albion SC BU14 White and BU12 White both finished 1st in their group at Surf Cup and advanced to playoff rounds. The BU12 White played a team from Vancouver Canada and lost 1-0 in the Quarterfinals. The BU14 team beat Surf in the Quarterfinals and fell to LAFC in the Sem Finals.
ALBION SC BU19 PREMIER WIN CAL SOUTH NATIONAL STATE CUP CHAMPIONSHIP SENDING THEM TO USYSA REGION IV CHAMPIONSHIPS
The BU19 Premier has just won the Cal South National State Cup Championship qualifying themselves for the USYSA Region IV Championship in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The team has been the top boys Premier team out of San Diego playing in the BU19 Premier Elite Bracket and has won many games and championships over the years, but this one was the main goal and objective of this team over all the years and it comes in great fashion. We look forward to seeing this team win in New Mexico sending two teams to Kansas to play for the National Championship this July.
ALBION SC BOYS U15-U19 PROGRAM INVITED TO BE PART OF WESTERN COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY PROVIDING GREAT COLLEGE OPPORTUNITIES TO THE PLAYERS
Albion SC will be 1 of 24 clubs in the Western United States to be included in an elite opportunity for the players and teams. The teams will compete in supplemental games and showcase events to enhance the players opportunties with the whole focus of this Academy to help gain more exposure and opportunities for players wanting to play college soccer. We are very excited to be selected and recognized once again as a top club in the US. We feel this league will give us a tremendous advantage in getting our players the recognition and exposure needed to get them into college and beyond.
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CAL SOUTH ODP SELECTS 10 PLAYERS FROM THE ALBION SC PLACEMENT PROGRAM
Albion SC has just placed another 10 players in the Cal South ODP program in an effort to then place these kids on the US National Team. The program has been putting systems in place to help place kids at the ODP level and we are showing good success with the club putting close to 20 players into ODP just this year.
Most Recent Players Selected to Cal South ODP:
Colin Webb, Garret Franklin, Oscar Ortega, Jose Menlo, Dominic Chavez, Ricardo Martinez, Francisco Magallon, Geny Decker, Hannah Kay, Madeline Burdick
TWO MORE SENIOR PLAYERS SECURED WITH COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS, BU18 SEAN CALLAHAN & GU18 KAYLA KALEIOHI
Sean Callahan, the center mid playermaker for the BU18 team, has committed to accept an athletic scholarship to Sonoma State University in Northern California. Sonoma State competes in the California Collegiate Athletic Assocication and is one of the top Division II schools in the country, having won a National NCAA championship and annually appearing on the National Top 20 list. Sean, who was Albion SC 2009 Male Player of the Year, began his club soccer career here at Albion as a U9 and helped lead his teams to numerous successes including the club’s first Presidio League Championship.
Kayla Kaleiohi has committed to attend Holy Names University on a soccer scholarship.The team was Cal Pac Conference champions and stats for season were 10-9-1. Kayla has been one of the most dedicated and consistent players on the GU18 Premier team having worked herself from other teams in the club to playing on the top team in the age group by her U16 season. Since then she has only progressed and has made it clear to all that she has wanted to play college soccer. We are very proud of her and Sean for their dedication to Albion SC and the game of soccer. It is now being recognized and rewarded.
ALBION SC PLAYS US NATIONAL TEAM TO A 1-1 TIE AT HOME DEPOT
The Albion SC BU15 played the US National Team at the Home Depot Center on Thursday Night, May 6th at 7pm. The game was a friendly exhibition game. Albion SC used this as a developmental game and brought in U12, U13, and U14 players to play along side the BU15 team. Currently the BU15 team has 2 US National Team players, 2 Regional Team players, and several other Cal South ODP players.
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ALBION SC BU15 WIN THE 2010 US NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP
The Albion SC BU15 White has just completed the 8 team BU15 US National League. It started in North Carolina in December with the team facing the Dallas Texans, Lamont Raiders, Baltimore Bays and CASL. The team finished that weekend in 1st place after winning 3 out of 4 games. The team just finished playing 3 more matches in Las Vegas defeating Michigan Wolves, Dixie Hills Thunder, and LAFC Chelsea. The team defeated LAFC, a Southern California rival 3-1 to claim the US National League Championship sending the team to Kansas to compete for the National Championship in July. The team is currently ranked # 2 in the Nation by Got Soccer and is looking to bring the first National Championship home to Albion SC this summer.
BU14 Premier players Adam Wright, Guillermo Bermudez, Adam Vargas, Pablo Paleaz, BU12 Premier players Alante Fishel, and Brenner Jarrad have all been selected by Cal South to the ODP program. The ODP program is the first step to a player moving towards the US National Team.
GU18 PREMIER, JESSICA WOOD COMMITTS TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Jessica Wood, a top defender for the GU18 Premier has committed to Cornell University, a Division I school in the Ivy League playing against teams such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia, and Brown. She will attend the school and play soccer this Fall.
ALBION SC BU18 PREMIER, RILEY WEBB HAS COMMITTED TO ST. LAWERENCE UNIVERSITY(NY)
GU18 PREMIER GK LINSEY MCFARLAND HAS VERBALLY COMMITTED TO PLAYING AT UC SANTA BARBARA
An official visit was taken this weeknd by Linsey Mcfarland to UC Santa Barbara to visit the campus and meet the coaching staff and team. Upon her return to San Diego she made the decision that Santa Barbara was going to be her final decision to play college soccer and gain her education. This is a great school with a top education and soccer program.
KRISTA LAUER, GU18 PREMIER COMMITTED TO PLAY AT BATES COLLEGE
The GU18 Premier team continues to place the players at top universites around the country. The latest player to be recruited to play soccer in college was left defender Krista Lauer who will be graduating from Albion SC and moving onto Division III,Bates College (Maine).
2010 BEGINS WITH COLLEGE COMMITTMENTS FOR SENIOR PLAYERS
Albion SC 2010 College Placement Committments as of December 28, 2009
Devin Marshall, GU18 White- Arizona State University
ROAD TO THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP BEGINS FOR ALBION SC BU15
Albion SC BU15, Ranked # 2 in the Nation by Got Soccer begins the US National League in Wilson, North Carolina in conjunction with the NCAA Division I Final Four. The team has been on a quest to win the the US National Championship and that opportunity begins on December 10th against the Dallas Texans, Lamont Raiders, Baltimore Bays, and CASL Elite. The team is playing 4 games in North Carolina and 3 games in Las Vegas in March. The top two of this league will earn a spot in the National Championship in July.
ALBION SC'S OSCAR ORTEGA PLAYING FOR THE US U17 NATIONAL TEAM AGAINST PORTUGAL, BRAZIL, NETHERLANDS
Oscar Ortega is playing live on Fox Soccer Channel for the next 2 days at 6pm Pacific Time. He is playing with the U17 National Team as they play Brazil and Netherlands in Phoenix, Arizona. They played against Portugal on Friday Night and lost 2-1 with Oscar playing very well in the match. Oscar is doing very well as a Full Time US National Team player and is being considered for the U17 World Cup in 2011.
COLIN WEBB GETS US NATIONAL TEAM CALL UP
Colin Webb was waiting for the call and it finally came after a final performance at the Home Depot Center with the US National Team Coaching Staff a few weeks ago. Colin will join his Albion SC teammate, Oscar Ortega in Florida as he will train with the US National Team and Staff for 10 days to try and earn a spot in the full time residency program for the US National Team players. This residency is the U17 National Team being groomed for the U17 World Cup in 2011 and is a full time program for the player to go to school and train with the US National Team full time. This program is fully sponsored by the US National Team.
" As a program we are very excited that we are now consistently preparing players for this level of play. This will be our 2nd player to attend Residency Camp with several other players being considered. We look forward to seeing Colin reach his potential, which for us we have always believed it was National Team or Professional Soccer in Europe."
Technical Director, Noah Gins
GU18 PREMIER FORWARD KATIE WAHL HAS ACCEPTED FULL SCHOLARSHIP TO PLAY D1 COLLEGE SOCCER AT COASTAL CAROLINA
Katie Wahl is heading into her Senior year of high school with her college future in place. Albion SC has helped match Katie’s desire to play college soccer at a high level with a top Division 1 program in North Carolina. After competing in the Las Vegas College Showcase and the Texas Shootout in Houston this year, Katie was presented with several offers from colleges across the country. Having just returned from visiting the campus of Coastal Carolina, Katie has decided to call Coastal Carolina home and has signed a National Letter of Intent to secure her college future.
Katie has been a player on the rise with the program and she really has not come into her own until the last few years here. We have always seen Katie’s potential standing 6’1" tall with a great physical presence on the field, but needed to refine her technical abilities. Katie has progressed extremely well with the program over the last few years and has drawn interest from many, many colleges and universities around the country including St. Marys, University of Chicago, Northwestern just to name a few. We are very excited to push Katie onto the next level and this next year will be a preparation year for her days ahead in college.
The club expects to be able to graduate nearly 100% of the GU18 Premier team off to the college level with some sort of scholarship in place for them. Last year’s graduates from this team include Morgan Keefe (Harvard University), Kelsey Griswold (Whitworth University), Alex Mc Lauglin (Cal State Northridge) and Casey Lockey (Cal State Fullerton). At the current time we have 3 players who have already committed with Devin Marshal going to Arizona State on a full scholarship, Brianna Chapman going to Cal State Fullerton on scholarship, and now Katie Wahl to Coastal Carolina on a full scholarship.
OSCAR ORTEGA HAS BEEN CALLED UP TO A FULL TIME POSITION WITH THE US NATIONAL TEAM RESIDENCY PROGRAM IN BRADENTON, FLORIDA
“Albion SC believes in maximizing potential in our players and pushing them to the highest level we can take them,” says Technical Director Noah Gins. “If as a coach you can take a player and see the potential that exists within that player and truly maximize their potential then the player and program will see maximum results. “
Oscar is a good example of a player trained and developed to reach his potential. At the age of 9 when Oscar came to tryout for Albion SC he was a very good player, he was not the best player at the time, but clearly one of the kids we recognized with some of the highest qualities and extreme potential. And for us potential is just that, potential… It is what a player and a program can do with that potential that really means anything. When Oscar came into the club he came in with several talented players, some even at the time better than him and a few years later those players moved onto other clubs. Oscar remained loyal and committed to the team and program. As we continued to develop Oscar we put a plan together to push him to the ODP and see if the National Team would be within reach. Oscar in the first year of ODP made the team and quickly moved through the program making the Regional Team and National Pool in the first year. For the last few years the training for the team and Oscar has been very focused with high standards and discipline all while playing a very competitive schedule. The environment fostered the needs for Oscar to grow and push himself to be ready for the opportunities that would come again with the US National Team.
As a program from coaching staff down to the players that pushed Oscar to the level he is at today we are all very proud of Oscar and the program for taking this potential and fostering that into the clubs first and not last call up to the US National Team Residency Program.
Oscar was only 1 of 15 boys in his age group (1994) in the US to be invited to move to Florida to be full time with the US National Team. He will attend the Bradenton Academy for School and will train with the US National Team every day. The US National Team Staff will oversee and manage Oscar each day and all will be provided for Oscar. The players brought into Residency will be groomed for the next 2 years for the next Youth World Cup and beyond. For now Oscar will have a new challenge and with the preparation and knowledge gained at Albion SC he should go to Florida and be ready to succeed.
Oscar will depart for Florida on August 22, 2009 and will play his last games with Albion SC on August 15 and August 16 in the FWRL being played at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista. We hope to see everyone come out and support the BU15 team as they defend their FWRL Title and see Oscar perform before he leaves for the US National Team.
ALBION SC ANNOUNCES FIRST PROFESSIONAL PLAYER SIGNED TO PARIS ST GERMAIN (PSG)
The word is traveling through US Soccer as Albion’s very own, Jeremiah Bunton has been selected to play for PSG ( Paris St. Germain) in France. As one of Albion’s truest products, Jeremiah has pushed himself into the European game after being spotted by professional scouts in France. Jeremiah has been working extremely hard towards this goal and has now proven to all American players the dream of playing in Europe is possible. Jeremiah will spend the next year with PSG and have many opportunities in the months ahead. Jeremiah was a PSL All-Star who was then brought into the Albion SC program at age 8. His focus and determination to become a professional existed at the youngest of ages and the club has supported and provided the training neccessary for him to reach his goals. Stay tuned for updates on his year with PSG and all the exciting things that follow for Jeremiah.
Puma has announced Albion SC as a PUMA PREMIER CLUB and will be providing many special opportunities to Albion and its players. This is great recognition for the club and to have Puma behind the club in this manner will help Albion SC reach its National Recognition.
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