Presidio Sports

Justin Vom Steeg was among 119 players from around the country to be selected to attend the U.S. Soccer Under-14 national program’s identification camp in Concord, Mass.Justin, the eldest son Almeria and Tim Vom Steeg, the men’s soccer coach at UCSB, is trying to make the first U14 boys national team, which will compete at the Disney Showcase in Florida in November. Spots on regional teams are also at stake.Justin, a goalkeeper, plays for the Santa Barbara Soccer Club and is in the Region … [Read more...]

Local AYSO U-14 girls all-star team won an AYSO National Games championship last weekend in Palm Beach, Florida.  "Team Oswego" bested over 225 teams at the National Games, held over six days from July 6-11.The Team Oswego girls are 12-to-14 year old Santa Barbara area soccer stars.  They’ve been winning tournaments together since January 2010, including the tough AYSO Area 10W championship.  At the National Games, they scored 22 goals against their opponents and only allowed 3 goals.Team … [Read more...]

If you didn’t get your fill of international soccer matches during the World Cup, warm up your vuvuzelas and head on out to Girsh Park on Tuesday.The Santa Barbara Soccer Club’s U-12 Boys Regional Championship squad, coached by Rudy Ybarra, will be playing a travelling team from Thailand at 6 p.m.“We’d like to get a crowd out there, because this is a great match for our soccer community,” said Ybarra.At the end of June, Ybarra’s team took down teams from all over the western … [Read more...]

Sparked by the dominating pitching of Hailee Rios and a potent offense, the Goleta 10-under Thunder girls softball team won the Central California ASA Championship national qualifying tournament in Santa Maria.The Thunder, an all-star squad from the Goleta Valley Girls Softball Association, outscored their opponents 40-5 and hit an impressive .469 as a team during the two-day tournament.Rios, meanwhile, was nearly untouchable on the mound. She struck out 30 over 15 innings and didn’t allow … [Read more...]

Despite its inauspicious start, losing 5-0 in game one of pool play, the Santa Barbara Soccer Club’s Under-10 girls team rallied, playing better with every game to almost run the table in CalSouth’s State Cup Governor’s Tournament last weekend.Winning their next six games, the team advanced from pool play through four elimination rounds to the tournament final game, played Saturday at the Lancaster National Soccer Complex. Playing South Bay Force to a 0-0 tie in regulation, SBSC’s long … [Read more...]