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The U11 Girls White team recently placed 2nd in the Reddan Thunder Invitational.

DSC U13 Girls and U14 Boys both came up short of going to the 2011 Iowa National State Cup Finals. This is the first time that the DSC has ever had two teams reach the National State Cup Semi Finals and the whole Club should be proud of these Boys and Girls who have worked so hard all year to improve themselves and their team to be able to challenge for such a prize.

CHAMPIONS!

U14 Girls Crowned Champions, ISA Directors Cup 2011.

The DSC sent two teams to the prestigious "Just For Girls" Tournament at the Cownie Soccer Park in Des Moines Iowa on April 30th and May 1st. The U12 Girls White and the U13 Girls White.

The CRSA Chillout lived up to it’s name this year, with all of the Saturday morning games being called off because of snow. When the snow stopped, play was resumed Saturday afternoon and Sunday. Here are the results for our DSC teams;

The DSC U12 Boys and U13 Girls both traveled to Des Moines for the WDMPG. On a very warm, 75-80 degrees and windy weekend the boys and girls played some very strong competition from Iowa and Minnesota at the Cownie Soccer Complex.

The DSC U14 boys started their Spring Midwest Regional League (MRL) play by going 2-1 against 3 very strong teams from St Louis and Kansas City.

Coaches answer questions about the DSC and how they arrived in Dubuque.

DSC Results at Toyota Indoor Cup Championships

DSC Results at the Fab 4’s and 5’s Futsal tournament the weekends of February 26-27 and March 5-6.

On January 1st and 2nd teams from the DSC started the New Year off in grand style with great results at the ISC Bubble Blowout.

The U10 girls had a phenomenal weekend at the Midwest Soccer Fest in Marion.

On Sunday morning November 5th, the DSC was asked to help with the Grand Opening and ribbon cutting of the new Dick's Sporting Goods store

The DSC U14 Girls traveled to Vernona, Wisconsin, on September 25-26 to play in the Reddan Toe bash.

The U14 Boys White team have been representing the Dubuque Soccer Club in the Midwest Regional League for the past month.

DSC Girls U12 White wins the upper division championship at Midwest Soccerfest in Cedar Rapids, IA, September 25-26, 2010.

The U10 Boys are Champions at the Midwest Soccerfest Tournament, Cedar Rapids Sept 25-26 2010

Dubuque Soccer Club U12 Girls White are Champions of the Madison 56ers Invitational top
flight in Verona, WI, September 11-12, 2010. 

 

The DSC U10 boys recently finished as runners up at the Super Sixes Tournament, held
in Iowa City over the August 28-29 weekend.

Girls U12 White attack the Super Sixes playing up to U13 Saturday, Winning U12 on Sunday

This weekend the DSC girls U11 White team earned 1st place in the Alliance Super Sixes tourney in Iowa City playing in the U11/U12 Girls Division.

Congratualtions to Beto Spielvogel for winning the World Cup 2010 individual Pool play and to the U10 Wildfire Girls for winning the team pool play.

Three girls from a Dubuque Soccer Club’s team were invited to guest play with the FC United Lightning team from Cedar Rapids for the Chicago Magic’s Best of the Midwest Tournament May 29-30 in Hebron, IN. The three young girls were premier starters MacKenzie May, Holly Bitter, and Susan Kehl.

The U11 girls Sparkz team have had a very busy month of May. They played in six games starting on May 9^th with a league game against the FC United girls Lightning. Prior to this game the Sparkz had a record of 3-0 against the Lightning

The DSC Wednesday Finishing sessions with D.O.C Marc Riley were a huge success.

The U13 Boys Firestorm went 1-0-2 in bracket play. Tying Ames 1-1, beating the Iowa Rush 4-0 and tying Heartland 1-1 to make it to the National State Cup Semifinal where they succeeded in beating the #1 seed JUSC 2-0. Unfortunatly our brave boys could not get past a strong Heartland team. After being tied 2-2 through 70 minutes of intense soccer, the boys lost in the second half of overtime 3-2, when a long distance shot from outside the box found its way into the lower left corner of the goal with only 3 minutes remaining. Great job boys on being the first DSC team to make the Iowa National State Cup finals and show the rest of Iowa what a Dubuque team can do if they work hard, prepare well, have the passion to challenge themselves to play at a high level.

 The U10 girls Wildfire concluded their regular season in ILLOWA with a 6-0-2 record and finished strong in the Reddan Thunder Tournament in Verona Wisconsin playing up an age group. 

The Boys U11 Velocity were crowned the Champion’s of the Des Moines Menace Tournament the weekend of May 15th-16th. Going undefeated through bracket play and winning the final in a dramatic extra time sudden death "Golden Goal".

The DSC held its first ever Club competitive tryouts last week at our Rite Hite training facility, with close to 300 players attending.

The Dubuque Soccer Club is very proud of the U11 Girls Sparkz team, as they took first place in "The Spring Shootout" held at the Reddan Soccer Complex in Verona, Wisconsin, April 16-18, 2010.

The U13 Boy’s competed in the Puma Champions Cup in Rockford Illinois the weekend of April 17th-18th. Facing some very good competition in bracket play, as they tied Campton SC from the Tri cities 0-0, beat the Chicago Magic 2-1 and then insuring their place in the final with a 1-0 win over the Minnesota Thunder Academy. Although they played well in the final they could not beat a very strong Chicago Wind/Fire team, losing 4-1.

Back row; Jordan Perry, Ryan Webber, Jack Kloft, Brett Harris, Caleb Rindfliesch, Brendan Dauphin, Tommy Bitter, Bobby McCaw.

Front row; Drake Arensdorf, AJ Ebling, Luke Nauman, Nate Thormann, Jarrod Dura, Mahesh Dhaubhadel, Brendan Nugent. 

Toyota Indoor Championship
March 6,7, 2010

HOW TO WIN A TOURNAMENT IN SIX EASY STEPS

If there was a theme from our weekend, it may be summed up in a quote from one of the players “We play at the level of the other teams.” The good thing is we learned a lot about ourselves and the level we can play at in this five team round robin tournament. I think the kids will say it was worth the trouble. 40 minutes halves with running time and no half time; subs on the fly at any time, fast paced and fun.

STEP 1 - LOSE A GAME YOU SHOULD HAVE WON

Our first game was against West Des Moines and we were pretty shaky from the start.  It was 0-2 after 7 minutes.  We tied it at 2-2 after 23 minutes but eventually lost the game 5-4. A game we let slip away but really learned from.

STEP 2 - WIN A GAME YOU DON’T DESERVE TO WIN

Our second game was against Norwalk, who on Friday night had lost to VSA 6-0.  Now this was a game that was summed up by Coach Marc with these words, “You played five minutes of brilliant soccer and scored three goals. The other 35 was absolute rubbish.”  Once again we spotted our opponent two goals. Then in successive minutes (28, 29, 30) everything clicked. Winning 3-2 and gaining confidence we could really play at this level and learned the fact that a team should never give up.

STEP 3 - SWALLOW THE “BITTER” PILL

So after the game, Coach Marc is giving the kids some thoughts about the game and some instructions for the rest of the evening.  They include, “I’ll let you have your feet and legs in the jacuzzi for 15 minutes, no more. Then get some rest so that you are ready for the morning.”  That might have been it until Holly Bitter asked, “What about the regular pool?”  Coach Marc would have none of that.  He gave the kids some good information about the investment that parents make in these events and that they did not pay that money and spend this time to watch their kids be worn out on Sunday because they were in the pool all night Saturday.  There was muted but visible reaction, but the kids went back to the hotel and held each other accountable and nobody swam.  Was this the difference in STEP SIX?  Perhaps!

STEP 4 - TAKE CARE OF YOUR OWN BUSINESS

Our morning started with some free time on field as we had the first game of the day at 8:00 am.  We played a little “hit the crossbar” and had our warm up on the field.  Then we played the Heartland Warriors. We played better, starting fast and scored the first three goals in 15 minutes, ending up with 6-2 victory and we won a game we should have won!

STEP 5 - GET BY WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM YOUR FRIENDS

While we were playing Heartland, West Des Moines was playing Norwalk on the field next to us. Norwalk scored a couple of late goals to tie the game which was necessary for us to have a chance in the final game. Without that tie, we would have had to beat VSA in the last game of the 5 team round robin tournament by 13 goals!

STEP 6 - SAVE THE BEST FOR LAST

Because of the tie breaking rules, it was a de facto championship game. If we won, we were champs.  If they tied or won, they were champs. Joey Ott stated after the game “THAT was a fun game!” I can also quote Coach Marc again who said to the kids, “That was the best defensive game I have ever seen from an U11 team.” The game was played at a much higher pace and skill level than any of the other games had been and the kids were up to the task. Very entertaining to watch, especially in light of the outcome. But in any case, the kids played great. Matt Wessels was very strong in goal and we gave them very little room to move the ball as they had been accustomed to doing in the other games they played. When Jacob "Guppy" Berning found Reese "Dilly" Adams with a pass behind the defenders, all that needed to be done was push it home and he did. 1-0 was the final score but thousands of lessons learned. For sure, we needed every ounce of energy that the kids had saved by not swimming the night before! 

Champions! But more than that, we learned and improved through the weekend. And as always, we conducted ourselves as gentlemen which is perhaps most important of all.
 

DSC U11 Velocity players are; Matt Wessels, Beto Spielvogel, Jack Kalb, Holly Bitter (Guest Player), Jacob Berning, Jack Kamentz, Joey Ott, Ty Ebling, Reese Adams, Caleb Stines, Not pictured; Brendan Howe, Sean McCoy. Coach’s Jim Ott, Joe Howe.