KC Star All-Metro

Congratulations go out to all 15 Sporting Kansas City Juniors players chosen to the Kansas City Star's All-Metro Boy's Soccer teams. The selections were announced in Sunday's edition of the newspaper (shown on right), with our very own Derek Schrick being named the All-Metro boys soccer player of the year! Here's a rundown on the honorees:

First Team: FWD Shane Woods (Kearney, senior), MF Derek Schrick (Rockhurst, senior), MF Chris Tuso (Blue Valley NW, senior), Matt Peterson (Blue Valley North, junior), Clay Stewart (Olathe South, junior), GK Jacole Turner (Lee's Summit North, senior)

Second Team: FWD Steve Enna (St. James Academy, sophomore), MF Andrew Brown (St. Thomas Aquinas, senior), DEF Eric DeJulio (Blue Valley NW, senior), DEF Julian Ramirez (Blue Springs, junior)

Honorable Mention: FWD Garrett Pulliam (Blue Valley West, senior), MF David Leichty (Shawnee Mission South, junior), MF Joey Piatczyc (Lee's Summit, sophomore), MF Taylor Walter (Blue Valley, senior), GK Evan Wright (Blue Valley, senior)

USSDA Weekend Results

The SKC Juniors traveled to St. Louis this weekend for USSDA action. It was mostly a good trip for the teams as the U18s got back on track with two wins and two clean sheets. After a run of three straight poor results, it looks like they have things under control.

The U18s beat St. Louis Scott Gallagher Metro 2-0 on Saturday and SLSG Missouri 3-0 on Sunday. This is a week after losing to the same Missouri team, 1-3 at home. Tom Adams came away with a goal in each match. Shane Bowlen, Garrett Pulliam and Will Witherspoon also scored on the weekend. Jon Kempin started in net both games and recorded two clean sheets, not a bad showing for the USA U18 call-up.

Photo Credit: Daniel Russell

The U18s now sit at third in the standings with the two weekend wins.

The U16s weren’t as successful, but were still able to pick up some road points. They beat SLSG Metro 2-0 and lost to SLSG Missouri 1-3. Nevertheless, the U16s were still able to retain their spot in first place.

After making his first appearance last week in over a year because of injury, Chris Tuso scored his first goal of the season on Saturday. Daniel Hare and Wes White were the other U16 scorers on the weekend with Jacole Turner picking up the clean sheet against SLSG Metro.

SUM CUP is in Full Swing

Derek Schrick scores on a free-kick against Galaxy for the game winner.



The KCW Juniors created a U17 team to participate in the annual SUM Cup tournament. We composed a team of current U18 and U16 players and then a few new players who just made the DA teams. The SUM Cup is a tournament that only MLS Juniors team participate in. This year it is in Houston, TX surrounding the ALL-STAR match.

We are in a difficult group with Galaxy, Red Bulls and Real Salt Lake. We were able to find success in our first game last night against Galaxy. We went down 0-1 in the first half and then game back to tie and then win the match 2-1 with both goals coming from Derek Schrick. All three goals, ours and Galaxy's goal all came from free-kicks

Unfortunately, one of our new players, Chris Tuso, got tackled and broke his ankle. He is in a splint right now and will be getting surgery in Houston on Monday. Lets hope for a speedy recovery as we need him back on the field.

We play Red Bulls tonight at 8pm. For updated info click here and for photos here!