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Jon Paul Fernandez Selected for US National Soccer Squad!

Beachside Soccer Club’s JP Fernandez received the mother of all emails last Sunday night. It was an invitation to the US Under 14 Boys National Soccer Team training camp in Florida next February. “I was sleeping on the couch when my dad said I might want to wake up and read an email that just came in. It woke me up all right!”

13 year-old JP, who attends Eastern Middle School in Riverside, is a remarkably enthusiastic soccer player. He plays as midfielder on Beachsides’ Academy U14 team, which plays in a league of 80 or so clubs across the US selected by the United States Soccer Federation for the quality of their instructional environment.

Through this league he has been observed multiple times by National Team coaching staff. They really like the way he plays says Beachside and BSC director Mickey Kydes, He has worked incredibly hard to develop remarkable skill for his age. He has a great understanding of soccer and makes quick, good, decisions on the field.

College Coaches Flock to Beachside Games at Disney

Beachside sent 5 teams (U15 through 18 Boys, and U18 Girls) to the prestigious Disney Showcase Tournament over the holidays. 3 teams (15 Boys, U17 Boys, U18 Boys) were place in the highest level Showcase brackets.

All our teams did well, with all but the U18 boys making the final four in their bracket. The U16 Boys were Champions, The U17’s placed second, the U15 Boys and the U18 Girls placed fourth.

BEACHSIDE GIRLS SOCCER BREAKS THROUGH WITH 15 COLLEGE PLACEMENTS THIS YEAR!

15 Beachside players on our u17-18 Girls team have received offers of places on College Varsity teams.

The following eight young women graduating from High School in 2013 have made a commitment:

Anna Borea – Fairfield University
Amanda Berta – RPI – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Stephanie Gittings – Connecticut College
Aleksandra Maciejewski – Gettysburg College
Nicole Rioseco – Amherst College
Rachel McDermott – Union College
Amy Reunert – St. Lawrence University
Anna Zukowski – M.I.T.

Seven additional players form Beachside’s u17-18 Girls team are in the process of making decisions with offers from:

Vassar College
University of North Carolina
Syracuse University
University of Rochester
Providence College
Simmons College
Dickinson College
University of Delaware
Read more…

Pete Doneit Named USYS Coach of the Year!

Pete Doneit Louisville, KY. (February 25, 2011

Pete Doneit has coached at the Beachside Soccer Club since 2001. In 2010, his Under-15 Boys team played in the US Youth Soccer Region I Championship finals, missing the opportunity to advance after double overtime with the eventual national champion. His team is currently competing in the US Youth Soccer National League. Doneit is responsible for Beachside’s goalkeeping education, development and training, and is the director for Beachsdie Juniors. He has led five teams to the US Youth Soccer Connecticut State Championships. In the summer of 2010 Pete guided Beachside’s Super 20 mens’ team to the National U-20 semi-finals in Chicago. He is working on his USSF “A” License and has completed his NSCAA Goalkeeping Level I and II Licenses.

Pete is Coaching Director for the Old Greenwich/Riverside soccer program and is responsible for all GK’s in the Westport & Old Greenwich/Riverside town soccer programs.

Recipients of the Competitive Coach of the Year awards are selected by the US Youth Soccer Board of Directors on the basis of sportsmanship, player development, personal coaching development and community involvement (citizenship).

Beachside’s Pete Doneit is CJSA’s “Coach of the Year”; U13 boys receive CJSA Special Achievement Award

At Connecticut Junior Soccer Association’s club Presidents’ Dinner on January 29, longtime Beachside team coach and Goalkeeper Instructor Pete Doneit was named “Coach of Year.” In presenting the award CJSA Coaching Director Austin Daniels cited Pete’s outstanding work as a “teacher, mentor and role-model.”

Coach Doneit has led three Beachside times to five Ct. state championships in total, and his teams won the “Fair Play” award at the USYS Region 1 Finals 2007 and 2008.

He is also the coaching director and GK instructor for the Old Greenwich/Riverside Soccer program.

The U13 boys were honored with CJSA Special Achievement for tier hard work as U12s last user which culminated in their winning the Region 1 championship in July 2009. In presenting the award to the boys and their coach Gabriel Stan, Daniels described the team as a group of “fine young men would played the game with skill and style.”

Benny Feilhaber & Marcus Tracy called into US National Team Camp

U.S. Men’s National Team head coach Bob Bradley has named 30 players to the training camp roster including Beachsdie alumni Benny Feilhaber and Marcus Tracy that will begin gathering Jan. 4 at U.S. Soccer’s National Training Center at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif.

The group will prepare for the USA’s first match of 2010, a friendly against fellow FIFA World Cup finalists Honduras on Jan. 23 at The Home Depot Center. The match will be broadcast live on Fox Soccer Channel and Galavision beginning at 6 p.m. PT.

Benny Feilhaber (Aarhus-Denmark) is the leading cap winner with 30 appearances, the midfielder having started in the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup final against Brazil.

Aalborg-Denmark striker Marcus Tracy will make his first appearance in a camp with the full team.

BEACHSIDE SOCCER CLUB DRIBBLES 100 MILES AND RAISES OVER $15,000 FOR HIV/AIDS PREVENTION

November 17, 2009 – New Canaan, Connecticut – Beachside Soccer Club raised over $15,000 for the internationally renowned organization, Grassroot Soccer, Inc. Six Beachside soccer teams and their families participated in the fundraising over a three-week period.

Mrs. Jennifer Mines, of Ridgefield, and Beachside U12 Blue coach, John Chiavaroli, of Darien, organized the event. “I am so grateful that Beachside agreed to support Grassroot Soccer,” said Chiavaroli. “I worked as a field intern for them last year in South Africa and Namibia, so it is an organization that is close to my heart. With the World Cup in South Africa next year, it seemed like a good fit for so many reasons.”

Close to one hundred Beachside players (representing 15 Fairfield County towns) participated in numerous soccer activities throughout the evening, which included 4v4 small-sided games and dribbling relays, as well as juggling, shooting power, and shooting accuracy competitions. The winners of each competition received a Grassroot Soccer tee shirt. The most meaningful activity of the evening was the 100-mile dribble at the beginning of the event. Ethan Zohn, winner of the CBS hit television series: Survivor, and co-founder of Grassroot Soccer, dribbled a soccer ball from Boston to Washington DC last year in order to raise money and awareness for HIV/AIDS prevention.

BSC U12 Boys Win USYS Region 1 Championship !!

soccer scoreboard Huntington, WV. July 7

The U12 Boys won all three first round games, outscoring opponents 12-1, before defeating local rival FC Westchester 3-1 in the semi final on July 6

On July 7 they defeated the Manhattan Kickers 1-0 in a close game of very high quality. The winning goal was a 30-yard “Upper 90” strike by Austin Sims.

BSC’s U17 Boys won all three first round games without conceding a goal, before losing a close semifinal to Seacoast United of Maine 2-1.

The U14 Boys lost a close game 3-2 to 2008 champions Dix Hills, and then tied Empire United of Rochester, NY 1-1. Their third game was canceled due to heavy rain on July 5 that left many fields unusable.

*Note the Gotsoccer results for this bracket are incorrect as of 8am 7/8

Beachside SC receives CJSA’s Annual Sportsmanship Award!

lucas

At CJSA’s Presidents’ dinner on January 30, Carole Allers and Jill Robey accepted CJSA’s annual Sportsmanship Award on behalf of the club. Back in November these u13 Boys parents organized a “run for Lucas” event to raise funds to help an ailing player on FC Westchester’s u13 team – an arch rival.

The idea was born at FC Westchester’s Columbus Day soccer tournament, where efforts to raise money for Lucas Goldbaum, a Sleepy Hollow resident and FC goalie, were already under way.

Lucas was diagnosed with pediatric brain-stem cancer in July, and at the Columbus Day tournament, members of Lucas’ team played ”3-vs.-3” games and sold t-shirts to raise money and awareness.

Carole Allers, whose son plays for the Beachside under-13 team, saw the ”Play for Lucas” shirts and immediately decided to help.

“When I came home from that tournament, I said, ‘We need to do something,’ ” Allers said. “It could be my son.”

Allers went to team manager Jill Robey, and together they hatched the idea for ”Run for Lucas.”

So on Thursday November 13, members of six different Beachside teams – girls and boys under-12, -13, and -14 – along with some members of FC, coaches, family and friends, ran laps around the field to support and help raise money for Lucas.

Beachside’s Marcus Tracy signs with Danish champs Aalborg BK!

Marcus Wake Forest senior, Beachside Alumnus, and top American soccer prospect Marcus Tracy has decided to forego his chance to play in the MLS and has reportedly signed a deal with Danish champions Aalborg.

As reported the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet, the 22-year-old Tracy has signed an agreement with Aalborg.

Click here to watch a Danish TV interview with Marcus.

Click here to read an interview with soccer365.com

Tracy will follow former Demon Deacons Jeremiah White of AGF Aarthus and Michael Parkhurst of Nordsjælland to Denmark, where he will play under new head coach Magnus Pehrsson.

Tracy won the Hermann Trophy, awarded to the top player in college soccer for the given year, and was highly-touted as an early round pick in this year’s MLS SuperDraft.

Known for his tall, strong frame, incredible speed, and masterful touch, Tracy has been dominant in the air for Wake Forest, and will take that style of play to Aalborg, the former team of fellow American Danny Califf. His good showings last season caught the attention of teams in Europe, particularly in Norway and Germany, but the Danish club were able to get his signature.

Tracy will follow former Demon Deacons Jeremiah White of AGF Aarthus and Michael Parkhurst of Nordsjælland to Denmark, where he will play under new head coach Magnus Pehrsson.