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Opening Day Parade – 54th Year!

2024-08-09T15:31:34-07:00May 18th, 2024|

Opening Day ParadeAugust 17th, 2024 – 7:30 AM START!

The first Pleasanton Youth Soccer Parade took place in 1969 and we are very excited to continue this tradition for its 54th anniversary! The parade has become a fun event for all Pleasanton families to enjoy and we hope you will all join us in this great chance to bond as one community.

Schedule

  • 6:45am: If you are attending the parade this year, please arrive at St. Mary and Main in downtown Pleasanton to line up and assemble with your team.
    • Teams will line up by age group, the youngest in the front and the oldest in the back.
    • RAGE teams will line up on one half of the street, BUSC on the other.
    • Arrive early as parking can be difficult, and lining the teams up takes some time. Teams MUST be in line by 7:30am to participate.
  • 7:30am: Parade starts at 7:30 am sharp!
    • Route: South on Main, west on Angela, north on Peters, end at Peters and St. Mary.
  • Keep our downtown clean
    • Please do not create costumes that shed – NO feathered boas, beads, or tinsel, all of which require hours of post-parade cleanup by members of our club.
    • Do not throw candy or trinkets – doing so is a violation of our parade permit.
    • Clean up trash – Make sure empty donut boxes, cups, etc find a trash can or are packed out. We suggest teams who bring disposable items also bring a trash bag as street trash cans become full VERY fast.

Summer Camp

2024-05-01T15:22:46-07:00January 25th, 2023|

RAGE SUMMER SOCCER CAMP

2024 RAGE Summer Camp

Register Online Today

RAGE staff are known for creating an exciting environment and teaching the game of soccer at its best. The camp focus will be on ball skills, 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, small-sided games, and FUN!  Available for players birth years 2019-2011.
Players should bring cleats, a ball, soccer/athletic attire, and water/sports beverage.

DATES: June 17-20, 2024
TIMES: 9-10:30 am
Cost: $150
Where: Stanford Medicine Sports Complex (Stadium Field) (formerly Patelco)

How To Register

Step 1:  Create a parent account NOTE:  Already have a TGS parent account (competitive and select players already use this platform for tryout and team registration)?  If so, simply login and skip to step 2.
Step 2:  Click on “My Children”
Step 3:  Click on “Registration”
Step 4: Click on “Public Programs in your area” NOTE:  the program has a 10 mile radius – if you live further than 10 miles from Pleasanton you will need to change the radius
Step 5: Choose “RAGE 2024 Summer Camp”
Step 6: Register

PCA Workshop – THE SECOND-GOAL PARENT®

2022-08-16T19:30:22-07:00August 16th, 2022|

THE SECOND-GOAL PARENT®: Developing Winners in Life Through Sports

This workshop draws from the Double-Goal Coach model (winning and life lessons) to help parents focus on the second goal, ensuring their children gain the higher value of youth and high school sports regardless of scoreboard results. For details, see the information below.

Details

Who: For the Recreational and Competitive Parent
When:
Wednesday, August 17
Tuesday, August 23
Time:  6:45-7:45
Where: Thomas Hart Middle School MPR
4433 Willow Road, Pleasanton

2022 Deadline to Amend the RAGE Constitution

2022-08-14T14:34:04-07:00August 14th, 2022|

Notice to the RAGE Membership:

Deadline: August 19, 2022

Any and all proposals to amend the Pleasanton Girls Soccer Association Constitution must be presented to the Board of Directors at least sixty (60) days prior to the Annual General Meeting.  Any member in good standing can propose a change(s) to the Constitution.  The Annual General Meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 11, 2022.

Amendments to the Constitution shall be voted on at the AGM.

Please email your proposals to parliamentarian@pleasantonrage.org

2022 RAGE Scholarship Award Winners

2022-03-15T18:59:15-07:00March 15th, 2022|

2022 RAGE Scholarship Award for Excellence in Academic Achievement and Service to the Community

Each year, Pleasanton RAGE Girls Soccer Club recognizes and rewards scholar-athletes who demonstrate RAGE excellence in academic achievement and service to the community. Two $2,000.00 scholarships for college are awarded to high school seniors who plan to attend a 4-year or 2-year college, or a vocational or art school, and have a cumulative GPA of 3.8 or higher. Applicants are considered based on the following criteria: academic achievement; commitment to volunteerism/service; and number of years playing for RAGE. In addition, an essay is submitted defining one of the RAGE core values (Respect, Attitude, Greatness, Expectations) and explaining how the value is learned while playing soccer and serving the community.

Congratulations to this year’s recipients!

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Samantha Lim

Sam Lim

Samantha has played soccer for Pleasanton RAGE for 11 years, most currently as a member of the Competitive Program on the 2003/2004 Elite Clubs National League (ECNL) team.

A senior at Foothill High School, Samantha has a GPA of 4.1 and has committed to playing college soccer at Emory University where she will major in Quantitative Sciences and Business. 

To date, Samantha’s awards and accomplishments include the Pleasanton Community of Character Award for Responsibility; four-year Varsity letter for both Soccer & Track, and Co-Captain her senior year; CIF President’s List for Varsity Soccer; NCS/CIF Scholar-Athlete Award; two-time East Bay Athletic League (EBAL) All-League Second Team Award recipient; Pleasanton RAGE Scholar-Athlete Award. 

Equally important and inspiring is Sam’s long list of community service and outreach, specifically her involvement in the following school clubs, and also church-based programs that minister to children: Helping Hearts, as a volunteer with a mission to help end homelessness; UNICEF, as a member and an officer, participating in fundraisers and volunteering at food banks and kitchens to support an organization working to provide equal opportunities for children around the world; Vacation Bible School; Samaritan’s Purse/Operation Christmas Child; and Awana, where she spent her Friday nights teaching Bible lessons, playing games, and doing projects with children. 

Samantha chose the RAGE core value “Attitude” for her essay topic.  She says that “wearing the orange jersey represents the lessons that RAGE has taught me. The most important to me being that my attitude matters more than my abilities. If I have the right mindset, improvement will follow.”

Sadie Brown

Sadie Brown

Sadie has played soccer for Pleasanton RAGE for 14 years, most currently as a member of the Competitive Program on the 2003/2004 Elite Clubs National League (ECNL) team.

A senior at Foothill High School, Sadie has a GPA of 4.17 and has committed to playing college soccer at Claremont McKenna College where she will major in History. 

To date, Sadie’s academic awards and honors include the Juanita Haugen Memorial Scholarship Award; AP Scholar with Distinction & with Honor Awards; California Scholarship Federation, Life Member; three-year Varsity letter for Soccer & four-year Varsity letter for Lacrosse; Co-Captain for Soccer & Lacrosse; East Bay Athletic League (EBAL) All-League Honorable Mention Award recipient; North Coast Section (NCS)/CIF Scholar-Athlete Award; Pleasanton RAGE Scholar-Athlete Award.

Rounding out Sadie’s excellence in academics and honors is her community volunteerism, specifically her service to the following: Pleasanton Parks & Rec Committee, as the Youth Commissioner working with City Council on issues related to facilities, programs, and services; Girl Scouts; National Charity League where she has spent the last six years volunteering many hours at and for local organizations including the Pleasanton Public Library, PPIE, Culinary Angels, Sunflower Hill, and Hively, as an elementary grade tutor during Covid. 

Sadie chose the RAGE core value “Attitude” for her essay topic. She says that “attitude is key to my personality, and the influence that RAGE has had on developing a positive attitude that I can rely on day in and day out is something for which I will always be grateful.”

2022 RAGE Executive Committee Election Results

2022-01-24T14:05:10-08:00January 24th, 2022|

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1-24-2022 Notice to the Membership:

On January 22, 2022, the following candidates were elected as officers of the Club by the RAGE Board of Directors:

President:  Cassandra Fuller

Competitive Vice President:  Martha Brown

Recreational Vice President:  Colin Chang

Secretary:  Erik Hofstede

Treasurer: Randy Smith

Their duties are effective immediately.

Sacramento United Boo Fest

2021-11-07T19:03:04-08:00November 7th, 2021|

Congratulations to the 2013 Elite team on their 2nd place finish at the Sacramento United Boo Fest.  The girls fought hard, left it all on the field, and showed their opponents NO MERCY!  Thank you to our coaches Tim Gray and Lisa Wilson for being amazing coaches and keeping it fun for the girls every day!  The girls are so lucky to have you as coaches.

Election Results 2022 RAGE Board of Directors

2021-10-26T12:27:34-07:00October 26th, 2021|

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10/25/21 Election Results 2022 RAGE Board of Directors

RAGE Membership,
Congratulations to the seven (7) newly elected members of the RAGE Board of Directors!!
The results have been certified and posted below.

At the first meeting of the 2022 calendar year, the Board will elect, from its members, a President, Competitive Vice President, Recreational Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary.
Thank you for your participation in the voting process.
RAGE Parliamentarian

TWO-YEAR TERM

  • Jon Asmussen
  • Ryan Callahan
  • Todd Carter
  • Dawn Chapman
  • Katie Moe
  • Randy Smith
  • Julian Symons

RAGE & HERS Limited Sweaty Bands

2021-10-21T14:39:32-07:00October 11th, 2021|

Hello RAGE Players, Families and Members,

Thank you all for the continued interest in and orders for the custom Sweaty Bands available in our “PleasantonRAGE” Etsy store.  While have sold out of the RAGE/HERS band in support of Breast Cancer Awareness month, we do have RAGE club only bands still available.  Additionally, while our first scheduled pickup this past Monday 10/18 at Bernal Sports Park saw many stop by, we still have several outstanding orders we’d like to “deliver” to our wonderful club members.  So, let’s schedule pickup day #2 for this upcoming Monday 10/25 at Bernal Sports Park (formerly Patelco) between 7-8:30 pm.  For those that will struggle to make this time work, please open your order within Etsy and “message” us directly from within.  From there, we’ll effort to work out an alternate plan!  That said, please do try to pop by Bernal for pickup this upcoming Monday, as it should only take a minute or two.  This includes any that would like to buy real-time at Bernal.  Again, all transactions are through our Etsy store (no cash, no checks, no venmo, etc) so you’ll need to have the app set up to buy, with your order notification to us being immediate, so we’ll just hand it to you!  (A few of you did this last Monday and the complete transaction took only a few seconds!)

As always, thanks again for your tremendous support and interest in both the RAGE/HERS and RAGE club Sweaty Bands.  See you next Monday 10/25 from 7-8:30pm at Bernal fields for pickup #2!

Thanks, RAGE

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