Thanks For A Great Season!
Some of you may have noticed our sign downtown under the Pleasanton Sign! Thank you for a great season!
We look forward to seeing you next year!
U16 Hot Shots
The U-16 Hot Shots took 3rd place in the Walnut Creek Fall Classic. The team got off to a rocket start with a 7-1 win over a team from Danville. Scoring started early in this match up with the Hot Shots stampeding to a 3-0 advantage in the first 89 seconds. After a highly competitive game against the Walnut Creek Fury, the Hot Shots were in 1st place going into Sunday.’s play. After losing a heart-breaker to the Walnut Creek Swat 1-0, the team advanced to the playoffs against another Pleasanton team, the Ladyhawks, and won.
Offensively the team was led by Emily Santiago, Mrinalini Narayan, Kaitlyn Antilla and Chelsea Burke . Denell Jackson, April Maestas, Katie Zieker and Tayler Clopton anchored a stout defensive effort.
Senior captain Alana D’Onofrio was named to the First Team All-Big Sky Conference selection.
Senior captain Alana D’Onofrio was named to the First Team All-Big Sky Conference selection.
D’Onofrio was a part of a great defense this year that allowed only 0.94 goals per game. The captain fromPleasanton, Calif. was also named Big Sky Defensive Player of the Week twice this season and recorded an assist against Southern Utah. Her first honor came on Sept. 10 as D’Onofrio help shutout UNLV.
“I think it is a deserving honor for Alana and our whole backline,” said head coach Andre Luciano. “Her work ethic and commitment to become one of the best defenders in the Big Sky was apparent on Sunday night.”
Alana played at the competitive level for the Pleasanton Rage for 9 years. She is a bio-med major/History minor graduating in May 2014.
Pleasanton RAGE U11 White Team Wins NorCal League Championship
Pictured Left to Right: Nicole Medina, Audrey Googins, Frankie Cardoza, Danielle Caccamo, Jenna Benner, Shyla Caponigro, Rylee Scanlon, Sammy O’Brien, Alex Lovelock, Eva Bull, Emily Hunt & Payton King. Head Coach Jarreth Chan, and Asst. Coach Ailsa Smith. Not pictured Kyrah Woodward.
Pleasanton RAGE U11 White Team Wins NorCal League Championship
The RAGE U11 White team finishes league play with 10 wins 0 losses. They capped their championship run in the Region 3-4 Silver division with a decisive 3-0 victory this past Saturday against the Danville Mustang Stars. Rage White dominated their league with 6 shutout victories to carry a plus 16 goal differential, and a 4 game win advantage on the second place team.
Rage will play for the top State Cup in the White Flight in December.
Congratulations RAGE U11 White on an amazing season!
RAGE U9 Orange
RAGE U9 Orange
U9 Orange 2013
The U9 Pleasanton Rage Orange girls capped a stellar season by finishing 3rd out of 88 teams for the Norcal State Cup. On Sunday November 17 in Manteca the Rage Orange defeated the Elk Grove Navy 2-0. The Rage Orange scored early when Samantha Riter took a pass from Kiana Tahmassebi and scored. The Rage defense led by goalie Tasha Laberge-Shusterman and defenders Paige Morgan, Andrea Castillo, Alura Hagan, Kelly Queen gave Elk Grove very few chances to score. The Rage Orange offense led by Riter, Tahmassabi, Olivia Soble, Kaitlyn Lemus, Ava Hofstede and Alana Owens kept the pressure on Elk Grove all day. The Rage Orange tallied a final goal when Soble shot it past the Elk Grove goalie.
This final victory of the season capped a season that say the Rage Orange finished 24-5-5. The Rage Orange were undefeated in the Gold division of Norcal. The Rage Orange also had 3rd place finishes in the Rage Showcase and Mustang Stampede tournaments and a 2nd place finish in the Ajax United Fall Classic tournament.
The Rage Orange were led by coach Dave Shaw.
U14 Premier Team Wins National Premier League (State 3)
U14 Premier Team Wins National Premier League (State 3)
Back Row Left to Right: Head Coach Axel Thibodeau, Delaney Bammer, Summer Langsam, Terra McHone, Audrey Goodman, Kirsty Brown
Middle Row Left to Right: Lauren Russell, Victoria Sanchez, Emily Wright, Lucy Holmes, Lilly Ryan, Natasa Copic
Front Row Left to Right: Madison Baxter, Nicole Zhang, Keara Greenan, Katie Judson, Sydney Pandolfo
Next to Soccer Ball: Jennifer Waldo and Molly Murphy
This weekend, the Pleasanton RAGE U14 Premier Team finished off a dream fall season and won the National Premier League State Three Title. At one point they went undefeated for fourteen games in a row! They also completed an undefeated State Cup run in Group Stage Play. They finished #1 in the powerful NPL State Three Division featuring teams from throughout Northern California. They resume play after the high school break in late February. The team is Coached by Axel Thibodeau. The Assistant Coach is Ray Hooft. They are also lead by their Age Group Head Coach and Technical Trainer Stephanie Wieger.
Dani Rodriques named to the mountain west conference all tournament team
Dani Rodriques (on the left), who played for the Pleasanton RAGE U17 and U18 ECNL teams was named to the Mountain West Conference All Tournament Team. Dani is a sophomore for Fresno State. RAGE has two other starters on the Fresno team, Amanda Nunes and Alyssa Holsworth, both freshmen. Fresno compiled a notable record of 7-3-1 in conference play this season.
Posted: 11/18/13
Westmont Goalkeeper Lindsey Smith
The Golden State Athletic Conference has announced that Westmont goalkeeper Lindsey Smith has been named the Women’s Soccer Co-Player of the Year. Smith shares the honor with Vanguard forward Jordan Davidson.
“This recognition has been three years in the making,” said Westmont head coach Kristi Kiely of Smith’s award. “I thought she was, if not the best, one of the best keepers in the conference her sophomore year. Last year, she was good, but was hampered by her injury. This year, it was the culmination of everything – her hard work and being injury free.”
This is the third All-GSAC Team selection for Smith who played throughout the 2012 season with a torn ligament in her elbow.
In 2013, playing in the strongest conference for women’s soccer in the NAIA, Smith has allowed just six goals and ranks second in the NAIA with a goals-against average of 0.38. She has tallied seven shutouts and combined with sophomore keeper Lauren Dorr for six shared shutouts.
“Lindsey has been absolutely excellent,” praised Kiely. “In the big games, she is the one who has kept us in the games and given us a chance to be successful on the other end of the field. She has been a leader in the back and has made huge saves. I am thankful that she has been recognized for her talent, because she is one of the best in the country.”
U11 Orange – US Marine Core Reserver Toys for Tots
For our Rage leadership project, Noelle Marceno and I chose to support the US Marine Core Reserve Toys for Tots program. The purpose of this charity is to provide toys for under privileged children. The success of this program is dependent on people’s generous donations of new, unwrapped toys to be handed out to kids during the Christmas season. Without this program, many of these underprivileged kids would not have presents for Christmas.
U11 Orange – Toys for Tots
Our goal was to get as many donations as possible. To achieve this, we wrote a letter containing the program details and gave it to all the people we knew. We asked them to donate a toy and told them we would pick it up from their house and would deliver all the toys we collected to the Marine Core reserve center. We collected three huge boxes of toys! This meant we could help brighten the Holiday season for a lot of kids.
Toys for Tots is a fantastic nonprofit organization. It made us feel really good to help out kids who are less fortunate than we are. We are so glad we choose to support Toys for Tots. We hope you decide to support it next year.
By: Victoria Frentz, U11 Orange
