Women's Soccer Gets Rowdy About Reading!

Women's Soccer joined Mrs. Cole's first grade class at Rio Bravo Elementary School today to celebrate winning the 'Rowdy About Reading' Competition. Now entering its fifth year, Rowdy About Reading is a read-for-rewards program is available for all Kern County students in grades K-6. The five-month program is designed to encourage kids to read in order to contribute to their classroom “team” score. Rewards for reading achievement are made to each student in the participating classrooms. Mrs. Cole's class successfully read 1,320 books in the five month span therefore winning a end of the year pizza party with one lucky CSUB team. Women's Soccer players enjoyed an afternoon with the first graders teaching them soccer skills, reading them a book, and eating some delicious pizza! We hope to see these kids at our summer soccer camps in a couple months.

CSUB Soccer gets involved in the Community!

The CSUB Women’s coaching staff and a collection of men and women’s players participated in a day of celebration at Thompson Junior High. Student-athletes were involved in the recognition of the all-star intramural soccer teams from seventh and eighth grade. Brian explained; ‘The intramural program is simply another tool to get students physically active by providing a variety of sport activities that may not be offered as an after school sport.’ Soccer, as well as other sports such as basketball, is offered in a competitive yet fun environment for all students to participate. Thompson Junior High believes ‘It is a great way to keep kids on tract behaviorally. If a student has to serve a lunch detention then they will not be able to play on their team, so it encourages the students to stay out of detention.’ The men and women’s soccer players enjoyed a fun day with the junior high school students and look forward to challenging them again next year.

Coach Van Dyke Joins the Stanford Staff

BAKERSFIELD, Calif.-CSUB Head Women's Soccer Coach Nicole Van Dyke has announced she is leaving the Roadrunners' program to take a position on the women's soccer coaching staff at Stanford. Van Dyke will replace Theresa Wagner, who took over the head coaching job at Dartmouth.

"It is a bittersweet departure as I am leaving a very dedicated group of girls that I have enjoyed watching develop into not only good soccer players but wonderful young ladies," Van Dyke said. "I wish them success in both soccer and in life and will be routing for them as a former player at the institution."

"We wish Nicole will on her new endeavor," said CSUB Athletic Director Jeff Konya. "As an alum, she has much to be proud of as she helped get the program on the right track."

Assistant coach Melissa Phillips will serve as the interim head coach in the transition for the Roadrunners.

Van Dyke, a 2002 CSUB graduate, finished her fifth season as Head Coach this past Fall. The 2010 season was the first year all CSUB teams were post season eligible after the school completed its five-year transition period. On their way to posting a 4-9-5 overall record in 2010, the Roadrunners earned impressive wins over WAC members Hawai'i and Sacramento State as well as WCC member St. Mary's and earned an impressive draws with WCC powers Pepperdine and San Diego.

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2011 Spring Schedule Announced

CSUB Men's BBall vs. Fresno 2/16/11

The Women's Soccer team got festive Wednesday night at Rabobank arena as they showed up painted with 'GO RUNNERS!!' painted on their stomachs and all in royal blue sports bras. The men's basketball team did not get the result, but it was a great atmoshphere with nearly 6,000 fans present.

4v4 Tournament Champions

A big thank you everyone that made this past Saturday’s 4 A-Side Tournament a huge success! We look forward to seeing you again this summer for our youth soccer camps! To those parents who have previously participated in our camps and tournaments, thank you for your continued loyalty. We hope that you feel that your kids/team enjoyed a professional and fun environment along with quality competition. The Tournament yielded 28 teams with over 175 kids. We would also like to send out CONGRATULATIONS to the winning teams:

Girls U-10 Bracket - Inferno

Boys U-10 Bracket - Gunners Blue

Girls/Boys U-11 Bracket - Green Team
Girls U-12 Bracket - South Valley #1

Combined U-13 Bracket Kydz

4 A-Side Tournament

Deadline to register is Wednesday, February 9th! Please get your teams in ASAP. Hope to see you Saturday!

CSUB Women's Soccer Signs 8 for 2011

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- The CSUB women's soccer team will add eight players for the 2011 season, head coach Nicole Van Dyke announced Wednesday. The eight players, who all signed National Letters of Intent on February 2, will be Van Dyke's fifth recruiting class at the helm of the Roadrunner program. The class features one goalkeeper, three defenders, three midfielders and one forward.

All eight of the incoming players have played for elite clubs teams from strong soccer states (California, Nevada, Arizona) and they have all been playing with and competing against some of the best players in the region. Van Dyke anticipates some of the rookies to make an immediate impact in the fall. 'They all have athletic ability, personality and enthusiasm, that I feel will give us the final push that we need to become a top team,' says Van Dyke. 'I am looking forward to seeing the development of this class with our core group of players.'

For a detailed release and information about each of the players please visit:

http://www.gorunners.com/

Coachisms of Coach Van Dyke

Choose your favorite coaching moment of Coach Van Dyke for the Fall 2010 Season and vote on the sidebar to the right. Hurry to vote the poll ends 1/31/11!!

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Seasons Greetings