Tournament Champions

Girls U11 --           CISC Velocity 00G Turner
Girls U13 --           CISC Velocity 98G White
Boys Copa --        MSC Dynamo ’74
Boys Predator --  Coerver COE-Elite 96B
Adipure Coed --   Coerver COE-Elite 96G

Complete Results

Registration for the Fall 2009/10 Coerver® Center of Excellence and the new Center of Excellence-Elite has now closed. With the player-identification process completed, sessions are now running weekly. Current or potential students can find more information, including training squads and schedules, at the Center of Excellence link at left, or by visiting the Coerver® AK COE website.

A marker from Kyler Perry gave the MSC United 95 boys a first-half lead, which they doubled after the break and then held on to preserve the shutout and topple AK Rush 95B Nike to win the 2009 Alaska State Cup.

The state title completes a fantastic season for the U15 boys and coaches Mike Sanders, Jimmy Sliwa and Andy Burden. Next up will be representing Alaska at Far West Regionals in Albuquerque, NM, next June. Good luck United 95!

Matanuska Soccer Club teams continue to impress as the summer wears on, with several squads picking up impressive victories in the latest round of Alaska summer tournaments.

In all, five more trophies were added to the MSC haul in weeks past, as club teams competed in a pair of tournaments and continued the standard set with the victories in the Ina K Memorial.

Six Matanuska Soccer Club teams recently concluded competition in a spate of summer travel tournaments, highlighted by the United 98 boys dominating performance at the Sounders FC Adidas Cup at the Starfire Sports Complex in Tukwila, Washington.

Starting things off, the MSC United 92 and 98 boys, the latter traveling as AKFC 98 United under the US Club Soccer arm of Matanuska Soccer Club, competed in the Sounders FC Adidas Cup, with the 98s winning top honors at the tournament, scoring 24 and allowing only 1. United 92 also reached a milestone while in Tukwila, winning their first out-of-state game, with James Meaney’s goal giving the boys a 1-0 victory during pool play.

The 2009 edition of the Ina Kristiansen Memorial Cup concluded Sunday evening, June 7, with two Matanuska Soccer Club teams earning championship honors. In all, five of seven MSC boys teams moved onto the semifinal round, with United 92, 95 and 99 all falling there. The MSC United 00/01 boys also finished the tournament undefeated, though in the U10 bracket there was no knockout round to play.

On the girls side, MSC Polaris 99 finished group play in a three-way tie for first place, but was kept out of the championship round by a single goal in the tiebreakers.

The first annual MSC Friendlies will take place over the weekend of May 30-31 on the turf at both Eagle River and Chugiak high schools. Overall, there will be 34 full-sided matches contested between 29 different Alaska teams, including teams from Cook Inlet Soccer Club, Alaska Rush, Full Force, Northern Lights, Kenai and Eclipse.

Concessions will be available on site; there will be other games and individual-skill contests for players, and TR Stoneback, Coerver® Coaching NW Director, and other members of the Coerver® Alaska staff will be also be presenting a one-hour informational symposium on Coerver® Soccer Schools and Programs, preceded by a field demonstration from recent graduates of Alaska’s first Coerver® Center of Excellence.

June 8, 2009 - June 12, 2009
British Soccer Camps provide players of all ages and abilities with the rare opportunity to receive high-level soccer coaching from a team of international experts. Each day includes individual foot skills, technical drills, tactical practices, small-sided games, coached scrimmages, and a daily tournament. Equally important, the Challenger coaching staff provides your child with lessons in respect, responsibility, integrity, sportsmanship and leadership.

Camps will be held for MSC pre-competitive and academy players aged 6 through 10. Click here for more information or to register now.

Forty players, representing four different clubs, graduated from the inaugural Coerver® Coaching AK Center of Excellence on Friday, March 6, 2009. The 18-week advanced development program culminated with an evening of individual skills testing, with all players setting new personal bests in several categories, including juggling, ball mastery, fast footwork and speed dribbling.

Many of the graduates are now eligible for the next COE session, beginning in summer 2009, while others will progress into the new Center of Excellence--Elite, which kicks off in April.  

Seven MSC premier groups, including both boys and girls teams, will be traveling outside Alaska during summer 2009 to play in a variety of high-level tournaments. Playing in outside tournaments offers many benefits for MSC players, including exposure to a higher level of play, and for older players, exposure to scouts and college recruiters.

Teams will be playing in the Sounders FC Adidas Cup, US Club Region G Championships, the Nike Crossfire Challenge, the NHB Cup in Huntington Beach, CA, and the Thanksgiving Surf Cup.