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The Girls Academy is the leading youth development platform for the best female soccer players in the United States. They are the only national youth soccer platform that represents the collective vision of member clubs and actively engages the voice of the players to take real ownership of the league. They embrace the desire of club members and players to maintain an unrivaled standard of excellence in coaching, competition, and regional and national showcase events throughout the year and are committed to cultivating an environment that empowers each player to reach their best potential as an exceptional athlete and human being by celebrating the player's journey with a lifelong love of the game through competition, showcases, and camaraderie.

For the second time in three years the Girls Academy North West Talent ID was hosted by West Coast Soccer Club.  The talent iD identifies the top 5 players in each GA North West team for the age groups 2009-2006 girls.  144 of top players in the U14-U17 age groups from all over Northern California came to show their abilities at this one day event that included a morning training session performed by top licensees coaches and a afternoon game in front of college coaches and US talent scouts.   Each of the 144 players were provided a free Adidas GA training kit which included jersey, shorts and socks.  Former Olympian and West Coast Soccer Club founder Troy Dayak directed the event. “This was a great event for these young student athletes and our staff did an amazing job.  I'm positive that many of these players will be recruited by top college programs from across the country and some will be selected to youth national team rosters.  It was a pleasure working with them all”. 

The players were split up into two teams per age group and the specialized licensed coaches ran the training topic for the event, after the morning session the players all had lunch and then came back to play with the same morning team they trained with for a full game.” College coaches from all around came to witness the players train and then play a game. Some of the college programs included local schools like Fresno State, Sacramento State, Stanislaus State, Delta College, San Jose State, UC Davis, UC Merced and even some college coaches from out of state (Washington State) flew in to see the talent.  “We were treated very professionally, the training session was fun and I loved competing in the game with such great players!” said Livermore resident, Adriana Paneda, center defender for West Coast’s 2006 GA Krossfire team.  Rachel Warter is a 2009 birth year that plays up on West Coast 2008 GA team, “I was honored to be chosen to represent my age group and loved practicing and playing with the best soccer players in Northern Ca.” 

West Coast will be holding their competitive tryouts in Livermore beginning May 8th. All info and registration can be found at www.westcoastsoccerclub.com