9Mar/1011:06 AM

Sereno Soccer Club stocking college rosters

By Vince Marotta

If you’re a fan of college football, every February you’re aware of National Letter of Intent Day. That’s when high school football players from around the country pose for pictures, don college hats and sweatshirts, and put their John Hancocks on paper signifying where they’ll play their college football for the next four or five years.

It doesn’t get the same fan fare, but the same thing happens in soccer, and it’s becoming a much bigger deal in Arizona, a hot bed of talent for collegiate programs all over the country.

Sereno Soccer Club, one of the oldest and most successful youth soccer organizations in the Valley, held their annual College Signing Night at CATZ in Scottsdale. An astounding thirty players from Sereno’s 92 Boys and Girls teams (players born in 1992) inked their names to letters. Twenty-seven of them are headed to four-year institutions.

In all, 22 girls and 8 boys from Sereno are headed to college to play soccer and continue their education.

“Announcing college commitments and recognizing these players is a moment in which we can appreciate how much work on and off the field the Sereno coaching staff, players and parents committo in order fulfill their dreams of a college education as well as playing college soccer” noted Sereno Program Director Dave Simeone, who coaches 17 of the girls receiving scholarships on the Sereno 92 Girls White squad.

Sereno Soccer Club College Commitments

Player	Sereno Team	College Commitment
Molly Bear	92 Girls White	Univ. of Missouri
Selena Bracamonte	92 Girls White	Mesa State College (Colorado)
McClain Caldwell	92 Boys White	Univ. of San Diego
Samantha Cummings	92 Girls White	Univ. of Arizona
Swat Dash	92 Girls White	College of Charleston
Danielle De La Vina	92 Girls White	New Mexico State Univ.
Kaitlynn Glendinning	92 Girls White-South	Angelo State Univ. (Texas)
Jared Hanze	92 Boys White	Yavapai College
Nicole Hill	92 Girls White	Univ. of Georgia
Michael Holbura	92 Boys White	Univ. of San Francisco
Sarah Jackson	92 Girls White	Santa Clara Univ.
Julie Johnson	92 Girls White	Santa Clara Univ.
Samantha Kron	92 Girls White	East Tennessee State Univ.
George Malki	92 Boys White	Cal Poly
Katy Nalven	92 Girls White-South	Lyon College (Arkansas)
Breanna Oddo	92 Girls White	Paradise Valley CC
Tori Papp	92 Girls White-South	South Carolina State Univ.
Melissa Pestalozzi	92 Girls White-South	Nicholls State Univ. (Louisiana)
Thomas Ramos	92 Boys White	Cal State Northridge
Ashley Robertson	92 Girls White	University of Montana
Arianna Romero	92 Girls White	University of Nebraska
Shane Stephens	92 Boys White	Scottsdale CC
Justin Taillote	92 Boys White	Univ. of California - Berkeley
Courtney Watson	92 Girls Gold-South	Univ. of Montana
Quincy Wento	92 Boys White	Cal State Dominguez Hills
Carrie Whigham	92 Girls White	Univ. of Oklahoma
Cheyenne Biehl**	92 Girls White	Wake Forest Univ.
Hannah Daly**	92 Girls White	Univ. of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Kayla Johnson**	92 Girls White	Washington State Univ.
Ellen Parker**	92 Girls White	Univ. of Portland