Last month, Kate Maietta, a competitive coach for the Crusaders Soccer Club and the College Preparation Program Director Crusaders Soccer, conducted a program for high school soccer players who are members of the Crusaders Soccer Club or the Chula Vista Futbal Club. The meetings were the first events for the College Preparation Program for The Crusaders and Chula Vista Futbal Club partnership.

Coach Kate gave a thorough presentation about her experience and included an in-depth PowerPoint presentation with vital information for players and parents to learn about options to play collegiate soccer and to gain an understanding of how to be successful in navigating the recruiting process.

Both programs included presentations by Danny Alvarez, Kamryn Correll and Juan Barragan. Each presenter played college soccer and is now coaching a competitive team. They outlined their process for applying to different colleges and playing college soccer at various division levels.

Coach Kate commented: “The two ‘College Night’ programs were very well received with parents and players taking frequent screen-shot pictures throughout the Power Point presentation. Parents were pleased with how thorough everything was and appreciated the down-to-earth format which made everything easy to comprehend. My focus was on presenting the information for playing college soccer in a way which emphasizes the importance of finding the right program for each person. I hope everyone took away their needs to be other aspects outside of athletics to round out the college experience. I am excited to see what the future holds for all of these potential student athletes.”

As a follow up to the “College Night” presentations, Crusaders Soccer is holding the first College Showcase Event for Crusaders and Chula Vista Futbal Club players on June 29.  

Soccer coaches from a number of colleges, both near and far, will be in attendance to evaluate players for consideration of being offered a position on a college team. 


On June 1-2 , Crusaders hosted their annual 3V3 Festival on the turf fields at Pershing Middle School. 134 competitive and recreational level teams participated from clubs throughout San Diego.

Teams could have up to five players. Each team played three games consisting of two 12-minute halves. The boys played on Saturday and the girls played on Sunday. There were 13 divisions on each day depending on age and skill level. Medals were awarded in each division for the “Champions Team” and “Finalist Team”.

A big thank you to the many Crusaders competitive and recreational teams for participating in the 3V3 Festival. Crusaders teams won a number of champion and finalist medals including the “Silly Sigmas” one of the Crusaders 2010 Girls Competitive teams coached by Clay Adams.

We want to thank Gatorade for donating and staffing their large inflatable orange goal- kicking display. Players kicked a soccer ball and, depending upon the corner of the goal they scored in, won a prize. In addition, Gatorade handed out several hundred Gatorade drinks. And a special thank you to VIVEcf for donating all the soccer balls used during our festival.

Crusaders Summer Camps for all soccer players born between 2008 and 2016 are filling up quickly. Each summer camp will be on the turf fields of Pershing Middle School. For more information, and to register a player, go to crusaderssoccer.org/camps/.

Registration for our 2024 fall recreational season is open now through July 15. All recreational level boys and girls born between 2020 and 2010 are eligible to play. For more information and to register go tocrusaderssoccer.org/fall-rec-soccer/.

CAPTION: The Silly Sigmas, coached by Clay Adams, won their Girls 2010 division in the Crusaders Soccer annual 3V3 Festival on June 1-2 held at Pershing Middle School (Courtesy image).