(February 4, 2010) On Wednesday, February 3 2010, Crossfire Premier G91A players signed with their respective schools on National Letter of Intent Day. This was a special day for the team and for Crossfire Premier Soccer Club. EVERY 2010 graduate on the team signed with a Division 1 NCAA school. This is an extremely talented squad that has amassed an incredible 236 wins in 339 games since their 2002 season. Many of these girls have been with this team from the beginning, and as a group since 2002 they have scored 1000 goals while allowing only 225, and have earned 187 shut-outs.

Jason Courter of Honda Auto Center of Bellevue delivered the Raffle car, a 2009 Honda Civic Hybrid to Bill and Kelly Gunning of Sammamish. 

There youngest child is on Steve Crum’s U18 team and has been in the Crossfire Premier Program since U11.   Congrats to the Gunning family!

(January 3, 2009) Crossfire Premier is excited to announce Richard Reece, former assistant men’s coach at the University of Washington, as the new full-time Director of Goalkeeping.  Rich joins the club in January after five years at UW as the Men's Goalkeeping Coach.  Richard starts this week, so please join us in welcoming Rich!    Crossfire Premier keepers can email their age, group, name, coach’s name and email to richardjreece@gmail.com to be added to the keeper emailing list.   The new 2010 GK training schedule starts on Tuesday, 1/5.

(January 17, 2010) Phoenix, AZ. Over Martin Luther King weekend, more than two dozen Crossfire boys & girls who were selected for the 2010 ODP Washington State Phoenix Rosters will compete in the Championship tournament for Region IV Olympic Development Program teams. Three games followed by Semi-Finals and the Final Championship game will be played against Region IV states including Arizona, California South/North, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Hawaii. Congratulations to the following players

(January 17, 2010) Phoenix, AZ. Miles Sanchez 1997 and 1996 players Sean Bowman and Matt Reinikka traveled to Phoenix, Arizona in mid-December 2009 to attend a 4-day, all-expenses-paid event (minus travel) for id2 sponsored by Nike and US Club Soccer. These Crossfire players were either recommended by coaches, club directors, or scout-identified at US Club Regionals held in Burlington, Washington, last July 4th weekend. Scouting has been done all-year long during regular season club play and players identified/invited to id2 program Regional Training Camps also experience a development component. Three camps in New Jersey, Texas, and Arizona invite the top 200 boys for 4-days of daily training sessions, classroom instruction, question/answer sessions, and matches. Like pros, the players travel in buses and learn about mental preparation and nutrition for top performance. Picked for their talent and technique, players must perform under pressure where the skill level is high, competitive, and the pace is fast but fun. Well done Miles, Sean and Matt.

Crossfire will host an Information Night on February 8th at 7:00pm at the Redmond Town Center Marriott Hotel.  This session is intended for any youth soccer player from any club and their parents to attend.  This open session will provide an overview of Crossfire’s USSDA program, our focus on College Placement for all youth soccer players, as well as an opportunity to ask questions.  Parents of, and those boys born in 1992, 1993, 1994 & 1995 are strongly encouraged to attend if their desire is to play at this level next season.

• The Head Coach for the U18 team (92’s & 93’s) will be Bernie James. 
• The Head Coach for the U16 team (94’s & 95’s) will be Ralph Black. 
• Tryouts will be held March 12th and 13th for both teams.

The 2010 Crossfire Winter Youth Academy begins on Friday, March 19th.  The Youth Academy is intended for serious players that would like to challenge themselves. The curriculum is created by the Crossfire Premier Directors of Coaching and will help each player develop the skills necessary to compete on a high level. Crossfire Premier Coaches will lead each training group. The Youth Academy consists of 7 (1.5 hour) sessions on Friday nights, and should supplement the players current team’s training. This is an excellent training opportunity for players intending to participate in the Crossfire Premier or Select tryout process.
  
 
Crossfire Premier Youth Academy
Who: Boys & Girls, U8-U13
Where: Marymoor Park
Time: 5:30pm-7:00pm
Dates: March 19, 26, April 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30 
Cost: $225 (Includes Nike soccer ball, and Nike Crossfire T-Shirt) 

 
Remaining Sessions!

  May 14th, 5:30-7pm  at Marymoor Park (make-up session) Updated 5/3

OLE, One League for Everyone is a new project within LWYSA. Our mission statement is ‘To assist low-income kids to play soccer with LWYSA’. Our current project is collecting gently used cleats, shinguards and shorts to redistribute to low income kids within our association, during the Fall Recreation Season. Gear is offered to players, who qualified for the free/reduced lunch scholarship. Donations can be dropped off at the Lake Washington office, M-Th, 9:00-3:00.

Thank you for making a difference!

(January 17, 2010) Lake Buena Vista, Fla.  Crossfire Goalkeeper Andrew Glaeser, a junior at Walla Walla High School, recently competed in the Disney Soccer Showcase in Orlando, Florida as a guest goalkeeper for the Foothills MVLA Raptors from Northern California. After three days of competition between some of the best youth soccer teams in the United States, Andrew was selected to the 18-man Disney Showcase All Star team and will travel with the team next August to train for two weeks in London, England with the English Premier League’s Chelsea Academy and play several games against top international youth teams from Europe.

Andrew plays for Crossfire Premier’s 92A team coached by Sean Henderson. Before joining Crossfire, Andrew played Club Soccer with the BMSC Earthquakes in Walla Walla for 5 years. Andrew also plays on the Washington State Boys 93 team as part of the Olympic Development Program (ODP). Andrew will travel with the State team to Phoenix, Arizona next week to compete in the Region 4 ODP championships against other State teams from across the western US. Andrew has been the starting goalkeeper for the Walla Walla High School varsity soccer team since his freshman year. For more details and a video of the 18-man squad click here

(November 9, 2009) US Youth Soccer has announced the Boys 1996 & 1995 ODP rosters for the Boy’s ODP Thanksgiving Interregional tournament.  The nation’s top soccer talent will converge on Disney’s Wide World of Sports® Complex in Orlando, FL on Nov. 27-30.  Sergey Ptachik, Matthew Reinikka, Sean Bowman.  Three of the four 1996 players from WA State invited by Region IV. Jose Ocampo one of the three 1995 players from WA State invited by Region IV.

(December 8, 2009) U.S. under-15 boys national team coach Jim Barlow has called in 32 players, all born in 1995, for a domestic training camp from Dec. 12-19 in Bradenton, Fla. Of the 32 players on the roster, five play for the New York Red Bull. The roster was chosen in part from the scouting network at the 2009 Development Academy Winter Showcase. Defender Jose Campo and Forward Henry Wingo made the East Coast weighed US Boys National Team Pool.  Read More Here

(December 5, 2009) Crossfire G’95A players and their families helped raise $184,000 and 250,000 pounds of food, totaling 1,063,308 meals for people in need across Washington at Home Team Harvest. The event, sponsored by KING 5, is the largest food and funds drive of the year for Northwest Harvest. Coached by Jim Thomas and Tim Reynolds, the team brought all their spirit to Redmond Town Center, one of six locations aroung the Puget Sound, including Kitsap Peninsula, to help surpass the goal of providing one million meals for the hungry of Washington State.

"On behalf of our network of partner food programs and all clients we serve, we want to thank you, our generous volunteers, who came out to support the event with your time and enthusiasm this year. We could not have done it without you, and your passion for providing for those who so need our help during these challenging times," said Stephanie Davidson, Volunteer Manager, Northwest Harvest.

(December 8, 2009) U.S. under-15 boys national team coach Jim Barlow has called in 32 players, all born in 1995, for a domestic training camp from Dec. 12-19 in Bradenton, Fla. Of the 32 players on the roster, five play for the New York Red Bull. The roster was chosen in part from the scouting network at the 2009 Development Academy Winter Showcase. Defender Jose Campo and Forward Henry Wingo made the East Coast weighed US Boys National Team Pool.  Read More Here

(January 17, 2010) Phoenix, AZ. Miles Sanchez 1997 and 1996 players Sean Bowman and Matt Reinikka traveled to Phoenix, Arizona in mid-December 2009 to attend a 4-day, all-expenses-paid event (minus travel) for id2 sponsored by Nike and US Club Soccer. These Crossfire players were either recommended by coaches, club directors, or scout-identified at US Club Regionals held in Burlington, Washington, last July 4th weekend. Scouting has been done all-year long during regular season club play and players identified/invited to id2 program Regional Training Camps also experience a development component. Three camps in New Jersey, Texas, and Arizona invite the top 200 boys for 4-days of daily training sessions, classroom instruction, question/answer sessions, and matches. Like pros, the players travel in buses and learn about mental preparation and nutrition for top performance. Picked for their talent and technique, players must perform under pressure where the skill level is high, competitive, and the pace is fast but fun. Well done Miles, Sean and Matt.

(January 27, 2010) Six players from Crossfire Premier Soccer Club were named to the All Tournament Teams at the 2010 US Youth Soccer RIV ODP Championships held in Phoenix, Arizona, from January 16-19, 2010. Congratulations to the following players for their noteworthy contributions to the Washington State ODP teams:

(January 3, 2009) Crossfire Premier is excited to announce Richard Reece, former assistant men’s coach at the University of Washington, as the new full-time Director of Goalkeeping.  Rich joins the club in January after five years at UW as the Men's Goalkeeping Coach.  Richard starts this week, so please join us in welcoming Rich!    Crossfire Premier keepers can email their age, group, name, coach’s name and email to richardjreece@gmail.com to be added to the keeper emailing list.   The new 2010 GK training schedule starts on Tuesday, 1/5.