Bakersfield College is hosting a youth soccer camp this summer in conjunction with Soccer Etc International. This is a local camp for players of all ages. Please open the associated brochure for additional information.

Cal South announced the players named to their Pro+ State ID pools this spring. South Valley G97 Carter had two players selected! Kristen Amarikwa and Reigna Banks. Kristen and Reigna were selected to participate in the seventy-player G98 pool this spring which will be used to form Cal South’s G98 Olympic Development Roster. Coach Jason Carter and the entire South Valley Soccer Club are excited and wish Kristen and Reigna the best of luck!

This past weekend numerous South Valley Thunder teams competed in the CaliCrown Classic here in Bakersfield. Overall, our club was very well represented. We had six teams who were either age-bracket champions or finalists competing against teams from all over central and southern California! G02 Lynch, G02 Shwora, and G99 Howlett were bracket finalists. Bracket Champions included B03 Lynch, G04 Chambers, and G01 Lynch. Great job Thunder teams!!!

The Bakersfield Californian announced its All-Area selections for the 2013/14 high school season. South Valley players were splashed all over the pages!! The list is long at twenty-nine All-Area selections, including Hannah Rehkopf (Bakersfield Christian HS), Co-Player of the year. In addition, South Valley players comprised eleven of the sixteen girls selected for the First Team. Graduating seniors, Tala Haddad (Stockdale HS) and Kate Hamilton (Garces Memorial HS) have been honored with Area First Team selections their Sophomore through Senior years.

We are also proud to mention our first All-Area boys’ selection, Teague Romero, playing at Frontier HS and coached at South Valley by Jeff LaForce. In the coming years, we expect to see a growing number of our South Valley boys join the ranks of Bakersfield’s great high school players!

For a complete list of South Valley players making All-Area and All-League, please click on the High School Honors link listed on the left side of our home page.

South Valley had two older teams accepted into the prestigious Players College Showcase this past March. Coach Shelby Klippel’s G95 team won two games, lost one game, and tied one game, finishing second in their bracket. The South Valley G97s, coached by Jason Carter, won the Vdara bracket, finishing with four wins! In the process, they defeated teams for NorCal, Seattle, Idaho, and Minnesota. Both teams’ games were well attended by college coaches. Go South Valley!