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6th Annual Southwest All-Star Game Tonight!

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Join us for tonight’s High School All-Star game, being hosted at Springfield Catholic High School for the first time. The game features the best graduating high school seniors in this region, as chosen by Steve Ole Olson of SGFsoccer.com, who covered over 50 games this Spring season, and Eric Sorlie of Springfield SC. Nominations were sought from the coaches of all of the teams from the three classes that play soccer in the Southwest Missouri region.

As part of the game activities this evening, we will be recognizing the Springfield Catholic girls team, along with Head Coach Ben Timson and assistant Meredith White. The Lady Irish won the State Soccer Title in Class 1 on June 5th, defeating Trinity Catholic from St Louis. The title is the first ever in soccer for any team in Southwest Missouri.

What: Southwest High School Soccer All-Stars
When: Tonight!
6:00 pm – Girls Game (download the rosters)
7:45 pm – Special Recognition, State Champion Springfield Catholic Girls
8:00 pm – Boys Game (download the rosters)

The Boys rosters includes 8 All-State players while the Girls roster includes

The Girls Head Coaches are Evan Palmer of Nixa and Clint Nurnberg of Parkview. The Eagles won their first ever District and Sectional titles this season while the Vikings achieved perfection in going 9-0 during the Ozark Conference season.

The Boys Head Coaches are Steve Fast of Bolivar and Jason Ingold of Camdenton. The Liberators won 2nd Place in Class 2 in November while the Lakers earned their first District title.

Key sponsors this year include J&K Soccer who provide the souvenir jerseys, game balls and this year are bringing tents to provide shade for the players during the game. Cox Sports Medicine is represented by Dr Rusty Bond (whose daughter Jamie was an All-Star in 2008) and Charles Bower. There will also be an ambulance stationed at the game. Springfield Catholic Schools is hosting the event and are ensuring every resource is available for the players and the fans.

That includes taking special steps to allow Mediacom to return to the game for the first time since 2006. Don West and Mike McClure will be on hand this evening to provide the play-by-play. Color analysis will be offered by Coaches Jeff Rogers of Glendale and Tom Davidson of Ozark, the deans of Springfield high school soccer.

The event is organized jointly by SGFsoccer.com, Southwest Missouri’s soccer resource, and Springfield Soccer Club, home to over 20 teams including the two time State Championship squad.

FC Springfield and SpringHigh Select Merge

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fc-springfield-badge-whiteNews Release
Re: Combining of FC Springfield and SpringHigh Select

We are pleased to announce that, effective June 2009, FC Springfield and SpringHigh Select will combine their soccer clubs to expand youth development teams, and to continue to grow a competitive soccer club for high school aged players.

FC Springfield was established in June of 2008 by Clint and Cliff Nurnberg. The club provides experienced coaching and player-focused growth through organized training sessions and equitable game time for youth development teams.

SpringHigh Select was founded in 2005 by Jeff Rogers, Rick Temple, and Coach Alf Bilbao, to provide training, league, and competitive tournament play to high school boys during the off season of high school soccer.

According to FC Springfield’s Club Director, Cliff Nurnberg, the combining of the clubs will provide the soccer community with a player-focused club that will provide seamless affiliation from youth to high school levels. “SpringHigh Select and FC Springfield have performed as soccer programs run like a business, rather than a business built around a soccer program. The combining of our programs will provide players and families a healthy, economical, and instructive program that is capable of serving kids from their pre-K years through high school graduation.”

The new club will be called FC Springfield, with the high school boys’ teams continuing to play with the SpringHigh Select name and uniforms, adding a FC Springfield logo. The club will continue to utilize Drury soccer players and other experienced area coaches to assist in player training. Plans include the continuation of the boys’ teams from the U7 to U19 age ranges, with Coaches Alf Bilbao and Ryan Swan to continue coaching the high school boys. In addition, the club plans to add at least one high school girls’ team. Some FC Springfield youth development teams are coed in nature, and additional girls’ teams may be established in the future depending on interest.

For further information, please see our websites at www.fcspringfield.net
or www.springhighsoccer.com, or you may contact the following:

Cliff Nurnberg
Club Director
417.818.8634
cliff@fcspringfield.net

A Shout Out to the Parkview Vikings Nurnberg and Griffin

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Kickapoo Shootout: Parkview Vikings vs Rockwood Summit Congratulations to Coach Clint Nurnberg who earned his 200th career win Monday evening against Branson (guys and girls combined). The Vikings were 19-7-0 going into tonight’s game, meaning he and the team are 20 game winners this season.

UPDATE – Oops. It’s still at 189, the ladies are going to have to win 11 or more this Spring

And congratulations to senior Tim Griffin (pictured being congratulated after his OT winner against Rockwood Summit) who broke the Parkview Vikings career scoring record in the game against Branson with two goals, taking him to 93 total. He was tied with Patrick Carver, now a D3 All-American at Emory University, going into the game. He also broke Carver’s single season scoring record of 36, reaching 37 this season with his two goals. Well done Mr Griffin.