After several year of applying, the Westside Breakers Under 17 team was rewarded for its strong finish in this year’s Gold Division by having its squad accepted to the Texas Shootout College Showcase in Houston (May 29-31, 2009).

For the second straight year, the Westside Breakers 97 White team coached by Julie Hauserman has won the Irvine Memorial Classic Tournament, held at UC Irvine the weekend of May 23-24.  The team won four straight games by a combined score of 19 goals for and only 3 goals against, with 8 different girls scoring.  The Breakers have won three of their last four tournaments.  Congratulations!

The Westside Breakers under 13 white team won the girls U13 Silver flight of the South Bay Force Odyssey Cup tournament on December 13-14 weekend.   The Breakers lost their opening game by a score of 2-0 to host South Bay Blue.  On Saturday afternoon, they played another Westside area team, the Galaxy Wildcats, and were unable to score (0-0 tie) after dominating play the entire game and missing a penalty kick.  This set up a critical game for the Breakers early Sunday morning against another local Westside team, the Galaxy Devil-Cats, as the Breakers had to win to get to the final for a rematch against South Bay Blue.  The Breakers got off to a fast start and scored the only goal of the game in the first half and then held strong defensively in the second half to win 1-0. 

image courtesy of stanfordphoto.com

Former Westside Breaker youth player Alexandra (Ali) Riley will be playing in the 2007 FIFA Women’s World Cup in China begining on Wednesday, September 12th as they take on the # 8 ranked team in the world, Brazil in their opening game.   We are incredibly proud of Ali as she grew up in Pacific Palisades and started her club soccer career with the Breakers (see the photo below) eventually playing on our U17 Premier level team in 2003.  After graduating from Harvard Westlake high school in 2006, she played in the FIFA Under 20 World Cup in Russia last summer for New Zealand before joining the Stanford University women’s soccer team last Fall.

Ali Riley as a young Westside Breaker player