Members of the 2019 Yavapai College soccer team will conduct a free youth soccer clinic from 9:00 to 10:30 a.m. 

Prescott Valley: Members of the 2019 Yavapai College soccer team will conduct a free youth soccer clinic on Saturday, August 10 at Mountain Valley Park in Prescott Valley. The clinic will take place from 9:00 to 10:30 a.m. Boys and girls ages 5-15 are eligible to participate. No registration is required. If possible, participants should bring their own soccer ball. All participants will receive a special soccer souvenir gift. 

Prescott: Members of the 2019 Yavapai College soccer team will also conduct a free youth soccer clinic on Saturday, August 17 at Ken Lindley Field in Prescott. The clinic will take place from 9:00 to 10:30 a.m. Boys and girls ages 5-15 are eligible to participate. No registration is required. If possible, participants should bring their own soccer ball. All participants will receive a special soccer souvenir gift.

No clinics for children scheduled for east side of County on Verde Campus,  Sedona Center, Camp Verde or nearby high school soccer fields

Members of the 2018 Yavapai Soccer Team will be conducting a free soccer clinic at Mountain Valley Park in Prescott Valley on Saturday, August 11. The clinic will be held from 9:00 – 10:30 p.m. Boys and girls ages 5-15 are eligible to participate. No registration is required. If possible, participants should bring their own soccer ball. All participants will receive a special souvenir gift. 

Members of the 2018 Yavapai Soccer Team will also be conducting a free soccer clinic at Ken Lindley Field in Prescott on Saturday, August 18. The clinic will be held from 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Boys and girls ages 5-15 are eligible to participate. No registration is required. If possible, participants should bring their own soccer ball. All participants will receive a special souvenir gift.

The College has not scheduled any soccer clinics for children on the east side of the County.

Six in Prescott, six in Prescott Valley, no  games to be played  in Verde Valley

The Yavapai Community College soccer team has announced its 2018 schedule.  Not including the August 18th match versus the Alumni, the home opener will take place at Ken Lindley Field on Saturday, August 25 against Irvine Valley College. As part of the college’s 50th-anniversary activities, a special kickoff time of 2:00 p.m. will take place. Kick-off for all other home matches starts at 6:00 p.m.

The 22-game regular season features 12 home matches, with six each, in Prescott and Prescott Valley. The Prescott Valley home opener will be held Tuesday, Sept. 4 against Glendale Community College.

No games are scheduled to be played on the east side of the County (Sedona Center or Verde Campus).

Community College athletic programs serving the West County emphasizes recruiting outside Yavapai County; Only two athletes from County on soccer team

The Yavapai Community College soccer team finished in third place at the National Junior College Athletic Association tournament held in Prescott Valley the second week in November. If the current roster is any indication, Yavapai coaches must believe their  success will come only if they recruit most of their athletes from outside Yavapai County .

President Wills commented at the November 2017 District Governing Board meeting that she sat beside a team member from Chino Valley. This comment suggested to some who knew little or nothing about the team that it was composed of local athletes. However, the team roster shows that only two of the 26 athletes are from Yavapai County.

The program ignores the east side of Yavapai County with no sporting events held there.  It also  fails to provide Yavapai County high school graduates with serious organized athletic opportunities at the Community College level because of its emphasis on outside-the-county recruiting.

The College boasts that in 29 years, it’s has compiled a 615-57-30 all-time record while capturing seventy-seven (77) conference, region, district and national titles. In 2017 Roughriders set a single season national scoring record with 145 goals shattering the old mark (134) that stood for 24 years.

The following is the 2017 roster. It shows where the student athletes recruited by the College came from.

Yavapai Community College men’s soccer team ranked number 1 in a NJCAA Division 1 poll

The Prescott Daily Courier reported on October 1 that  the Yavapai Community College men’s soccer team has been ranked as the number 1 team in a NJCAA Division 1 poll.

According to the Courier report, the 26-year-old program has won seven junior college national titles, made  76 appearances in the top spot, and has been ranked in the top 20 of NJCAA teams every week since the poll’s inauguration in 1990.

The complete sports story in the Courier may be found by clicking here.