Emerald City’s new WPSL team!

Emerald City FC is excited to be the home of a new Women’s Premier Soccer League (WPSL) team! The team will be coached by Leigh Cullip and will be training alongside some of our ECFC teams, giving our players the opportunity to interact all summer with top level college based players from around the country! There couldn’t be a better mentoring environment for our younger players! Watch this space for more information, including the 2012 WPSL season schedule.

Want to keep up to date with our WPSL team? Check out the teams Facebook fan page http://www.facebook.com/ECFCWPSL

Click here for the WPSL team page and upcoming news of signings and schedules

2012 Washington Cup U-15 Bronze Division Champions

Congratulations to the ECFC F96 White team coached by Jesse Winship-Freyer! It was a hard fought series with the semi-final game won on Saturday in overtime. The championship game on Sunday also went to overtime and with still no change in the score after OT, ended up going to a series of nail biting penalties.

Well done ECFC F96 White and Coach Jesse!

Other Notable Tournament Results:
ECFC F96 Green – Gold/Silver – Quarterfinalists
ECFC M00 Green – Silver – Semifinalists
ECFC M99 Green – Gold/Silver – Quarterfinalists
ECFC M97 Green – Gold/Silver – Semifinalists

Emerald City FC Annual Awards Night

“I am very pleased to announce details for our 2011 – 2012 Emerald City FC Club Awards Night. The Awards Night will be held on Sunday, May 6 at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, 4408 Delridge Way SW. Festivites will begin at 5:00 – 6:30pm. Please bring a picnic dinner for your family and come enjoy a fun social occasion with members from across our club. The awards ceremony will be held from 6:30 – 8:00pm in the Thelma Dewitty Theater at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center. I want to thank Coach Jesse Winship-Freyer for spearheading the effort to renew this important tradition.” – Erik Oman, ECFC Director of Coaching.

For more details please click here

Emerald City FC is proud to announce the addition of Seattle coaching icon John Hamel

 “John Hamel is coming home to the Emerald City FC Family and will be coaching with the club again in the coming year. We are very excited to have John back among our ranks. He brings a wealth of experience in the game along with his professional teaching and coaching experience and strong sense of integrity that we value at Emerald City FC. This adds to the strength of our top level coaching staff and will be a tremendous benefit to our players in the years ahead.” Erik Oman, ECFC Director of Coaching

Watch this space, as ECFC will be adding a few more notable coaches to the already high profile coaching staff of the club.

2012-2013 Emerald City FC Tryout Registration is NOW OPEN.

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To learn more about Tryouts at Emerald City FC click here

Congratulations Ibrahima and Peace

“Emerald City F.C. is delighted that two of our players have graduated to academies. Both Peace and Ibrahima have made outstanding progress this year and their promotion is a testament not only to their hard work and determination but also, to the environment created by our club.” Bobby Howe. (Emerald City FC Coaching Director Emeritus; M95 Green head coach)

“There is no magic formula for success. Coaching at youth level is all about working with players to improve their performance so that they may aspire to a higher level of play. It is not about recruiting players to build teams to win championships.” How to Play the Game…The Official Playing and Coaching Manual of USSF.

Ibrahima and Peace

Peace (M95 Green) has played with Emerald City FC since he was 9 years old and has made the Sounders FC Academy. Former Emerald City FC players that have and still are playing for the Sounders FC Academy are Aaaron Kovar (M92 Green), Rodney Greiling (M92 Green), Sam Perkins (M93 Green) and Tolussa Hassan (M93 Green).

Ibrahima (M95 Green) has played with Emerald City FC for the past 3 years and he has made the Crossfire Academy. Former Emerald City FC players that have and continue to play on the Crossfire Acadamy are Hamza Haddadi (M93 Green).

We wish Peace and Ibrahima every success.

ECFC M93 Green 2011 and 2012 college commitments so far

Alexander Barsher	Whitman College	SAAS	2012
Sunjay Bhatia	Tufts University	Interlake High School	2012
Ben Feldman	Cornell University	Garfield High School	2012
Simon Ghebremicael	Eastern Washington University	Foster High School	2011
Nev Mensur	Howard University	Chief Sealth High School	2012
Paul Picciano	Pomona College	Lakeside High School	2012
Guy Thyer	Pomona College	Lakeside High School	2012

Team Parents meetings with DOC

As traditional at Emerald City FC, parents will be meeting with the DOC and a Board Member this coming week. Parents are encouraged to attend their sons or daughters teams meeting and team managers have emailed details to their teams. Please click here for the schedule and here for a map of Ingraham HS. Emerald City FC looks forward to your input.