WOMEN'S SOCCER TEAM DEBUTS.Byline: Mary Schubert Daily News Staff Writer Eighteen women, ages 18 to 34, and half of them from Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. high schools, began a tradition this month at College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. . It involves cleats, shinguards and a black-and-white ball. They are the first women's soccer team in the 29-year history of the Valencia campus, and they are a diverse group. One of the athletes is an exchange student from Sweden, one is deaf and two are soccer moms. Literally. Jeannette Ferguson and Laurie Jenkins are mothers who decided to return to school. Sherrie Welch lost her hearing when she was 6 months old because of an allergy to milk, and Ann-Sofie Johansson left Scandinavia and traveled across nine time zones to enroll at College of the Canyons. The Cougar cougar: see puma. cougar or puma or mountain lion or panther Species (Puma concolor) of large, graceful cat that lives in a wide variety of habitats in the Americas, from southern Alaska to Patagonia. ranks, coached by Philip Marcellin, include five Saugus High grads, four Canyon High alumnae, two players from Alemany High School, two from the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley and one from Hart High. One of the athletes went to high school in Frazier Park, another in Granada Hills and a third in the eastern San Gabriel Valley The San Gabriel Valley is one of the principal valleys of southern California. It lies to the east of the city of Los Angeles, to the north of the Puente Hills, to the south of the San Gabriel Mountains, and to the west of the Inland Empire. . 20-game season The Cougars opened their inaugural season Thursday with a 2-0 defeat in Visalia against College of the Sequoias
Santa Maria (sän`tə mərē`ə), city (1991 pop. 217,592), Rio Grande do Sul state, S Brazil. It is a major railroad terminus and the site of an important military base. at a tournament hosted by conference mate Allan Hancock College Allan Hancock College is a California public community college located in Santa Maria in northern Santa Barbara County. Approximately 13,000 credit and more than 5,500 noncredit and community services students enroll each semester. . The eight community colleges that took part were Oxnard, Riverside, Bakersfield, Glendale, Los Angeles City College Los Angeles City College, known as LACC, is a public community college in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California. A part of the Los Angeles Community College District, it is located on Vermont Avenue south of Santa Monica Boulevard. , Fresno and the host team, Marcellin said. On Tuesday the team will travel to Walnut to face Mount San Antonio Mount San Antonio, better known to most in Los Angeles as Old Baldy or Mount Baldy, is the highest peak in the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California, USA and the highest point in Los Angeles County. Mount San Antonio has two summits. College. In addition to the Hancock tournament, the Cougars play a 20-game season that includes nine home contests, the first of them Friday against Santa Barbara City College As of 2004, total enrollment of full-time and part-time students reached 17,000. It is currently led by President John Romo, who will be retiring at the end of Spring 2008 after seven years with the institution. . The Cougars, part of the Western State Conference, also will square off against Glendale, Ventura, Oxnard, Moorpark, Cuesta cuesta (kwĕs`tə), asymmetric ridge characterized by a short, steep escarpment on one side, and a long, gentle slope on the other. The steep side exposes the edge of erosion-resistant rock layers that form the cuestas. , Bakersfield and Santa Monica colleges this year. The regular season will wrap up Nov. 10, followed by regionals, semi-finals and state finals, which run through the end of November. Losing the season - and team - opener was disappointing, but Marcellin said he was pleased with many aspects of that first outing. ``We lost, but we did some good things,'' he said. ``Defensively, we played really well. We had our problems on offense, but that comes with time,'' said Marcellin, who previously coached five seasons at Bakersfield College BC was founded in 1913 and initially housed on the campus of Bakersfield High School (then Kern County Union High School) before moving in 1956 to its current location "on the hill" in northeast Bakersfield. , guiding the Renegades to a 58-29-18 record and earning the conference's Coach of the Year award in 1994. Christa Sanchez, 19, transferred from Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. to play soccer at College of the Canyons. She estimates her daily commute as 100 miles round-trip. Campus attracts players ``That's my life - on the freeway, in rush-hour traffic,'' said Sanchez, a 1997 Quartz Hill High School Quartz Hill High School is a public, co-educational high school located in Lancaster, California. Founded in 1964, it is the third oldest comprehensive high school in the Antelope Valley High School District (AVHSD). grad. But she said she was glad to switch schools and make the long drive, because Antelope Valley College ``doesn't have (women's) soccer, and they aren't planning to get it. I just love soccer so much,'' Sanchez said. ``And I love this campus. There's little squirrels running around.'' The local wildlife ought to make Welch, 24, feel at home. For several years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time Palmdale native and equestrian enthusiast trained horses in Germany. Now she has returned to college to play soccer, just like she did in high school, and to study physical therapy and equine sports medicine sports medicine, branch of medicine concerned with physical fitness and with the treatment and prevention of injuries and other disorders related to sports. Knee, leg, back, and shoulder injuries; stiffness and pain in joints; tendinitis; "tennis elbow"; and . Welch reads lips and speaks, but on the field she and her teammates have to communicate with visual signs to accommodate the rapid pace of games and practices, she said. ``Basically, we don't baby her,'' interjected friend and teammate Heather Connolly, 18. ``She's never been treated like she has a problem.'' Connolly, a recent graduate of Alemany High School in Mission Hills, was glad to see College of the Canyons add a women's soccer team because she lives in the Santa Clarita Valley. ``It's close to home,'' she said. ``I didn't know what to expect, but it seemed exciting to me to be on a first-year team.'' College of the Canyons added the soccer team to comply with federal gender-equity rules that require the percentage of female intercollegiate athletes to be proportionate to the percentage of female students. That balance would be tipped considerably with College of the Canyon's reinstatement of its long-dormant football team, which has brought dozens of new male athletes to the college. Soccer becomes the seventh sport for women at College of the Canyons. Female students also compete on Cougar swimming, track and field, cross country, basketball, softball and volleyball teams. In her native Sweden, Johansson wouldn't be able to play college soccer. The closest equivalent is club soccer, popular among men and women but separate from the universities, she said. Johansson, 18, arrived in California just a month ago and misses the family and friends she left behind in her hometown of Kristinehamn, west of Stockholm and east of the country's border with Norway. ``They didn't want me to go,'' she said. ``The only thing I really miss is my grandmother. She's 89,'' Johansson said. ``But she thinks it's good for me to go.'' Marcellin, meanwhile, said he hopes his team will relax on the field and play with more confidence as the season progresses. In the Visalia game, he said, ``we seemed a little unsure.'' But the coach gave his fledgling team high marks for enthusiasm, competitiveness and tough defensive play. ``The key is building the confidence of the individuals and the unit,'' Marcellin said. ``I think the biggest problem we saw in the first game was nerves. We were tense, and we had a tendency to make errors and give the ball up.'' MEMBERS OF THE 1998 COLLEGE OF THE CANYONS SOCCER TEAM Adriana Contreras Saugus Dusty DeGeorge Saugus Rachel LeBlanc Saugus Tracy Passafiume Saugus Heather Warren Saugus Cassie Hencey Canyon Brandee Whitney Hart Heather Connolly Alemany Shauna Bennett Kennedy Christa Sanchez Quartz Hill Sherrie Welch Highland Desiree Arterburn Frazier Mountain Frazier Mountain is a mountain (or peak) that is located near Frazier Park, California and Lake of the Woods, California to the north. Frazier Mountain is 8,026 feet (2446 m) Jeannette Ferguson Pomona Catholic Ann-Sofie Johansson Brogardsskolan Not pictured: Tealena Baltad Canyon Christie Burnett Canyon Laurie Jenkins Canyon Shannon Ercek Alemany CAPTION(S): 15 Photos, Box PHOTO (1)Adriana Contreras Saugus (2) Dusty DeGeorge Saugus (3) Rachel LeBlanc Saugus (4) Tracy Passafiume Saugus (5) Heather Warren Saugus (6) Cassie Hencey Canyon (7) Brandee Whitney Hart (8) Heather Connolly Alemany (9) Shauna Bennett Kennedy (10) Christa Sanchez Quartz Hill (11) Sherrie Welch Highland (12) Desiree Arterburn Frazier Mountain (13) Jeannette Ferguson Pomona Catholic (14) Ann-Sofie Johansson Brogardsskolan (15) Philip Marcellin Former Coach of the Year BOX: MEMBERS OF THE 1998 COLLEGE OF THE CANYONS SOCCER TEAM (see text) |
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