FALL 2009 ISSUE 1

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Yankee United News

UAC Facility Ready Meet Yankee Alumni...
The new complex wi! be Yankee’s home in the Winter months Manya Makoski
Midfielder #22
Los Angeles Sol
• Member of 2002 US Under-19
World Cup Team that won the
FIFA World Championships
• Won 3rd straight Nordic Cup as
a member of the 2005 U.S. U-21
National Team
• Named an Academic All-
American earned First-Team All-
Pac-10 honors in 2004
• Set the ASU single-season
assist record with nine

The debut of the new member of the Los Angeles

United Athletic Center is Sol of the Women's
coming soon. Located at 1330 Professional Soccer League
Honeyspot Rd in Stratford, (see inset right). There will be
the complex offers facilities raffles, prizes and exhibition
suitable for soccer players of games.
all ages. The centerpiece of “Yankee United is pleased
this multi-sport facility is a to be associated with this new
glass-encased lacrosse and state-of-the-art facility.” said
soccer field. Spectators can Coaching Director Wayne
observe the action Mones. “This will be a great
comfortably from a walkway place for our players to train
above the enclosure. and will help them continue
The official grand opening their skill development year-
will be from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 round.”
p.m., September 12, with Each of Yankee’s premier
appearances planned by teams will have the
Claudio Reyna, former U.S. opportunity to train at the
national soccer team captain facility on a weekly basis
and New York Red Bull during the Winter months.
player; and Manya Makoski,

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WELCOME TO THE CLUB: U-14 STRIKERS

There’s a new team in town. The inaugural finished with a Division 1 record of 1-3-3, including a
season for the Yankee U-14 Strikers was launched at hard fought 1-1 tie against the 2009 U-13 State
the TWIST tournament in Wallingford, CT on Champion CFC Rocky Hill Wolves. As the latest
August 15-16. For a team that had never played addition to the Yankee Premier Soccer Program, the
together before, it was a learning experience for all Strikers look forward to contributing to the club's
with little victories and lots of development tradition of success and achievement.
opportunities! “I am very impressed with the talent of these
The highlight of the tournament for the Strikers girls and the heart that they showed in this
came during an afternoon match against the New tournament,” said Coach Jack Nogueira. “I look for
England Comets, a Division 1 rival. After a scoreless this team to accomplish great things.”
first half, the Comets scored on a breakaway by Shea
Connors to take the lead. Two minutes later, Katie
Danaher sent a free kick soaring to the Comets
touch line, left of the goal, where Keely Lockwood
corralled it and crossed the ball beautifully to Allie
Furlo, who scored by leaping in the air and
redirecting the ball into the far corner. Ten minutes
later the match ended in a 1-1 tie.
The majority of the Strikers played for Beachside
Soccer Club in '07-08 and '08-09 seasons. In the
Spring of 2008, they reached the finals of the
Baltimore March Madness Tournament, losing in
PKs to the Severna Park Kickers (MD). The team
also was a finalist at the PDA Spring Kickoff
Tournament, losing to Nirvana Nirvana (E-NY) in
the championship game 2-1. In the Fall of 2008, the
team won the HBC Peter Renzulli Memorial
Tournament in Huntington, NY by defeating all four
teams in the Premier bracket. They completed the
Fall 2008 premier season with a record of 8-2,
qualifying them for Division 1 play in the Spring of
2009. In the Winter of 2009, the team won the
Teaneck Winter Showcase Tournament and in the
Spring they reached the finals of the Adidas
Memorial Day Tournament, losing 1-0 to SOCA of
Virginia in the championship game. After a difficult
0-2 start to the Spring 2009 season, the team

UPDATE: YANKEE ALUMNI PLAYING COLLEGIATE SOCCER CURRENTLY

Yankee Heat: Kwiatkowski - Temple; Yeager – Gettysburg; Vallone – Brandeis; Damascus - High Point;
Murphy - St. Michael's; Veras - Western CT; Schueschner - Wagner
Yankee Fire: Celini, Singer – Central CT; Heffernan, Stanton – Southern CT; Roman – Merrimack;
Coleman – Swarthmore; Herczeg – Mount Saint Mary; Holroyd, Lipp; Longyear – Western CT
Yankee Force: Forster – Yale; Yahn – Rutgers; Domingos – Delaware; Richardson – Delaware; Smith –
W. Virginia; Tordinado- College of Charleston, Walsh - Fairfield; Espanol - UNH; Pullan - Elon; Carpenter -
Northeastern; Shultz - Fairfield; Gillespie - Providence.

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KIA MCNEILL NAMED ASSISTANT COACH AT BC

Boston College Women's Soccer Coach Alison
Kulik has announced the addition of former Boston
College defender Kia McNeill to her coaching staff.
McNeill will join Kulik, new assistant coach Neel
Bhattacharjee and Director of Women's Soccer
Operations Mike LaVigne on the women's soccer
staff for the 2009 season. McNeill is an alumnus of
the Yankee United program.
"I am really excited that I was presented with
the opportunity to return to BC. I have a lot of
respect for the University and particularly the
women's soccer program,'' said McNeill. "I loved
playing at BC and look forward to coming back to
work with the student-athletes and coaches. I look
forward to learning from the staff and the athletes as
well as implementing my own insight.''
McNeill has been busy in the past year. After
graduating from the Heights in May 2008, McNeill
went to Sweden to play for Kristianstads. On January
16, 2009, McNeill was drafted ninth overall by the
TECHNIQUES AND TACTICS
Saint Louis Athletica of the Women's Professional
Soccer League. McNeill is the starting central
defender and has started eight of nine games.
A native of Avon, CT, McNeill was a four-year
starter and played in 86 consecutive games. McNeill
played up front for the first three seasons and pulled
the switch her senior season to be a defender. The
move proved to be the key as McNeill was crucial to
the Eagles defense as it was ranked sixth in the
country in goals-against-average (0.475). McNeill
finished her career 61 career points, good enough for
eighth on the all-time scoring list at BC.
F.Y.I. Be wary of unaccredited ranking sources that
may rank teams or players. College coaches, USYS,
and US Club Soccer all rely on institutions like Got
Soccer, Soccer America, and Soccer in College for
reliable and accurate ranking of teams and players.
Got Soccer provides teams with the ability to
electronically post and update player profiles and
team records and transmits this information to
affiliated tournaments and showcases for college
coaches to view. If you have been contacted by any
other institution doing player or team rankings,
please let us know. We want to assure that as a club
we are putting our efforts into showcasing Yankee
talent where it will help our players the most!

WOMEN’S PROFESSIONAL SOCCER

Marta, Wombach and the rest of the best are all here, including
two former Yankee players, Kia McNeil and Manya Makoski. Have
you watched a WPS game yet? To learn more about the WPS
inaugural season go to http://www.womensprosoccer.com/

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U14 Strikers
The Strikers will have a Yankee Board
very busy Fall season, with 5 Members
league games and 7 friendly’s
against top Connecticut President
teams. The season schedule Ben De Ipolyi
finishes strong with
consecutive matches against Administrator and
TEAM NEWS last year’s State Cup Registrar
Finalists CFC Wolves and Dee Demers
U-13 Hurricanes CFC Arsenal.
The Hurricanes finished Coaching Director/
3-2-1 in their recent U12 Coordinator
Developmental Spring Wayne Mones
Season and capped their
season off with a double
Treasurer
overtime Championship win
Jack Nogueira
at the Kicks for Kids Soccer
Invitational in Hershey, PA.
Led by Coach Daniel Referee Assignor
Uhrlass and Coach Steve Ed Maloney
Waizenegger our
commitment to all players Goalkeeper Coach
and emphasis on unselfish Mark Pataky
play & passing is what
separates our team from
Clinic Director
every other program. We
certainly earned the respect Whitey Budreckas
of our competition and
generated interest where
we've added four key players
to this year’s squad;
Samantha Kratky, Courtney
Overacker, Virgine Larouche
and Tori Stapelton. This fine
group of ladies are currently
ranked top ten in the state
of CT and definitely up to
the challenge for their U13
Qualifying season.

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