RAGE College Signing Night

RAGE College Signing Night

Annette Fotos2018-01-16T09:34:42-08:00January 16th, 2018|

Please join us in celebrating our competitive players’ and the Club’s success at College Signing Night.

WHEN: Wednesday, February 7, 2018

WHERE: Marriott Hotel, 11950 Dublin Canyon Road, Pleasanton

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

6:15 PM: Meet and Greet the Players

7:00 to 9:00 PM: Ceremony

Refreshments will be served

WHO: RAGE Players and Families!!

This is a night you will not want to miss!

The culmination of years of hard work and dedication to soccer pays off with our girls committing to play collegiate soccer.

Congrats to the Class of 2018!!!

Happy Holidays for Santa Rosa Fire Victims

Annette Fotos2017-12-29T14:43:25-08:00December 29th, 2017|

For our RAGE Leadership Community Service Project, we decided to help the kids of Santa Rosa affected by the wildfires. My three teammates and I sponsored several Angel Trees, one per our four schools, by partnering with the Salvation Army of Santa Rosa. The Angel Tree program puts a child’s gift wish on an Angel Tree Tag. We also invited our whole team to participate by distributing 10 tags per player in addition to our 4 Angel Trees. Friends, family, students, and faculty would come and sign out a tag, or tags, buy the requested gift, and return the tag and gift to the tree unwrapped. We would each gather the collected presents weekly for the majority of December and then, on Thursday, December 14, a parent volunteer had to rent a U-Haul truck to deliver all the gifts we collected to the Salvation Army of Santa Rosa for distribution to the needy children. In the end we were able to spread the holiday spirit to over 800 children!

– Sienna, Natalie, Kanjanika, Saili, RAGE 04 Grey

The Rage 05 ECNL WIN!

The Rage 05 ECNL WIN!

Annette Fotos2017-12-13T10:55:22-08:00December 13th, 2017|

The Rage 05 ECNL side finished atop a very competitive NorCal Premier league (Region 3/4/5) following a 1-0 win over Santa Rosa United ECNL. Rage got out to an early lead, beating the SRU back line followed by a beautiful finish within the opening minutes. Axel Thibodeau’s team staunch defending kept SRU off the board for the remaining 65+ minutes. The 05s finished 6-0-2 with an astonishing 31-2 goal differential and are off to compete in the always exciting State Cup season. Good luck girls!

Kids Against Hunger Packing Event

Annette Fotos2017-12-11T17:03:19-08:00December 11th, 2017|

For our RAGE Leadership Project, we organized a Kids Against Hunger packing event with both of our teams and our big/little sister teams. This project was done by Kylia and Isabella from the 06 Premier and Orange teams. We really appreciate the help from everyone who supported our project. Kids Against Hunger packs a variety of nutritional items into a bag that gets weighed and sealed to be sent to wherever it is needed. The items in the bag consisted of dried vegetables, soy protein, rice, and vitamin powder. We had to measure out all of these items and funnel them into the bag. When we packed the food, we chose to have the food sent to Puerto Rico. We chose Puerto Rico because they had recently suffered from a terrible hurricane. Afterwards, we learned we packed 6,480 meals. It felt good to know how we helped others less fortunate than we are.

– Izzy Montague and Kylia Oki, Rage 2006 – Orange/Premier

Pleasanton RAGE player gains national exposure

Pleasanton RAGE player gains national exposure

apfotos2017-12-16T18:03:32-08:00December 3rd, 2017|

Ashleigh Garcia

Tracy’s Ashleigh Garcia is on her way to the top levels of girls soccer now that she has competed among the elite athletes in her sport in the western U.S.

Ashleigh, 13, an eighth-grader at Discovery Charter School and a member of the Pleasanton Rage team, participated in this past weekend’s U.S. Youth Soccer Olympic Development Program 2017 Thanksgiving Inter-Regional in Boca Raton, Florida.

She joined a team of 17 girls on the U.S. Youth Soccer Region IV (West) under-14 team, representing 14 western U.S. states, in competition against teams from the Midwest, East and South regions.

The weeklong event started with training Nov. 18 and continued with games throughout the week. Ashleigh was a midfielder on the West team, which went 0-1-2, including a 0-0 tie with the South team, the top team in the tournament, on Thanksgiving Day.

The tournament is a showcase where players can meet college scouts and qualify for further training and development with U.S. Youth Soccer’s top coaches.

While at the event, Ashleigh teamed up with Emma Corcoran, a member of Santa Rosa United soccer club and one of Ashleigh’s West Region teammates, to sell stickers and T-shirts to raise money for people affected by the recent wildfires. The duo raised more than $5,000 for victims of the October wildfires in Sonoma County, including four of Emma’s teammates whose homes burned.

Participating in the Thanksgiving Inter-Regional was Ashleigh’s most prestigious accomplishment yet. Previously, she was among 44 girls in the Cal North Olympic Development Program under-14 player pool and was a standout in the Region IV ODP camp in Colorado in June and July. She was also among 18 all-tournament players in the Region IV Championships in Seattle in January. She was selected for U.S. Youth Soccer player development programs for Cal North Region 8 and Cal South.

Her next step is to participate in the Cal North Player Development Program “id2” training Dec. 7-10 in Casa Grande, Arizona. It will be her chance to qualify for the U.S. National team and will give her more exposure in front of college recruiters.

Contact Sports Editor Bob Brownne at brownne@tracypress.com, or call 209-830-4227.