San Juan Soccer Club

San Juan Soccer Club Sactown’s choice for player development and referee education, sponsored by the Tiemann Law Firm.

The San Juan Soccer Club is committed to the development and success of Elite student athletes. Our highly experienced Coaching staff fosters a competitive environment that allows players to achieve their highest aspirations, driven by perseverance, integrity and exceptional character

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08/22/2026

Some posts need context. This needs absolutely none.

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Some people get a text asking if they’re free this weekend… Gabbagool gets one asking if she’s free to represent the cou...
08/19/2026

Some people get a text asking if they’re free this weekend… Gabbagool gets one asking if she’s free to represent the country. Next thing you know, it’s Mexico, Chile, Canada, and the rest of adolescence is suddenly looking very entry-level. Meanwhile, my biggest notification today was 20% off DoorDash, so there’s that.

Different inbox. Different tax bracket of plans, honestly.

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This is less a flex and more so responsibly sharing publicly available information. Journalism, am I right? We have no f...
08/15/2026

This is less a flex and more so responsibly sharing publicly available information. Journalism, am I right? We have no further comment at this time besides please look at this list.

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According to absolutely no reliable source, Northern California has approximately one billion really great soccer player...
08/09/2026

According to absolutely no reliable source, Northern California has approximately one billion really great soccer players. Then somebody said okay, let’s narrow it down to the best. Then somebody else had to type San Juan 19 separate times.

Bad day to be a keyboard. Great day to be us. Salute to the best in the conference.

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Somewhere, a teenager is waking up at noon and calling it an “early start” since summer tends to have its own definition...
07/30/2026

Somewhere, a teenager is waking up at noon and calling it an “early start” since summer tends to have its own definition of morning. Somewhere else, Emma Sullivan is gearing up to represent the United States U16 youth national team against Mexico… not once, but twice. Folks, youth is a spectrum.

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The easy thing about sports is talking about the good years. Those stories almost tell themselves. The difficult ones as...
07/28/2026

The easy thing about sports is talking about the good years. Those stories almost tell themselves. The difficult ones ask a little more of you. Or, in our case... a lot more.

We watched young players grow into responsibilities they were never supposed to carry yet. We watched a locker room become smaller, then stronger. We watched a group stop measuring itself by the table and start measuring itself by whether it could show up one more day, give one more honest effort, and believe for one more week that tomorrow could look different than today. And eventually, tomorrow did look different. Not because anyone promised it would, but because some corners only reveal themselves to the people willing to keep walking.

Some seasons ask you to win. Others ask you to endure. The lucky ones let you discover why the second sometimes matters more. Proud of you fellas, there’s plenty left to chase next time ‘round.

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There are a thousand different ways to spend a summer. Quite frankly, almost every one of them asks less of you. You cou...
07/27/2026

There are a thousand different ways to spend a summer. Quite frankly, almost every one of them asks less of you. You could have stayed close to home, slept in your own bed, taken the trip to somewhere you’d never been, or kept your evenings for the people who already knew you best. Instead, you packed a bag and came here, knowing from the very beginning that it would be over almost as quickly as it began.

You stepped into a place that wasn’t home, surrounded by people who were strangers only days before, and gave this little club the one thing no season can ever give back: your time. There isn’t a trophy for that. There isn’t a statistic that measures it. But we’ll remember it all the same. Life asks us to be careful about who we trust. Soccer asks us to trust anyway.

We’ll keep the light on until you find your way back.

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If you’ve ever wondered what nearly fifty years of people looking out for each other looks like, it looks a little like ...
07/17/2026

If you’ve ever wondered what nearly fifty years of people looking out for each other looks like, it looks a little like this.

The San Juan Heritage Foundation now sits on the front of every training top, carrying forward the people who wore this crest before today’s players ever arrived. It gives alumni and families a way to help make the game possible for the next kid, because talent can be everywhere while access, unfortunately, is not. The cost of playing should never be the thing that decides whether a young player gets to belong here, and this foundation exists to help make sure it isn’t.

A small mark on the shirt. A much bigger promise behind it. More kids on the field, more families able to say yes, and more San Juan stories given the chance to begin. Use the link in our bio to be part of that story.

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At this age, life is still made mostly of firsts: the first season at this level, the first national stage, the first ti...
07/16/2026

At this age, life is still made mostly of firsts: the first season at this level, the first national stage, the first time the game asks them to become a little older than they were the day before. Our 2013s met each of those moments with the openness of children and the composure of players far beyond their years. In their very first season at the highest level, our babies became one of the final eight teams left standing in the country.

The full scope of this accomplishment may not reach them until they are home again and enough time has passed to see it clearly, but we all know that their parents could already see it from the sideline in real time. Parents are asked to hold two versions of a child at once: the girl who still needs reminders to pack her water, find the other cleat, and hurry out the door, and then the fearless player walking into moments large enough to overwhelm grown adults without giving an inch. But for one remarkable season, the little girls they brought to the field stood among the very best in the country.

And maybe that is the sweetest part of all. There is a certain freedom in being young enough to meet something enormous before anyone has taught you to fear it. They accomplished something enormous while nearly all of life still waits ahead of them. There will undoubtedly be more seasons, more firsts, more joy, more heartbreak, and like the 2009’s, more versions of themselves they have not yet met. But man, what a privilege it was to be there when our babies gave us the first glimpse of just how extraordinary it might become.

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For a while, you think what hurts the most is losing. But then it settles in and you realize that five months from now, ...
07/15/2026

For a while, you think what hurts the most is losing. But then it settles in and you realize that five months from now, they’ll all be somewhere else. They’ll step onto new campuses, meet new teammates, settle into unfamiliar rhythms, and begin building lives that are already waiting for them just beyond this ending. The game will keep asking new things of them, just as it should. Time is gentle while living it and cruel in retrospect, allowing an afternoon in Seattle to feel endless before a whistle blows and reveals it was the last.

And that is the part that hurts most. Not because the dream ended, because it did not. The Elite Eight was only where the season stopped, not where their story did. Their lives are opening before them now, exciting and unwritten, and soccer will keep carrying them toward fields, cities, and versions of themselves none of us have met yet. What ended was our time with this version of them.
They arrived as “littles,” basically still learning where to stand, whom to follow, and occasionally whether anyone else had forgotten a shin guard. Then time, as rude and deeply unserious as ever, moved through hotel hallways, TikTok trends no adult could actually explain, and all the seemingly ordinary days we were foolish enough to believe would keep coming. Spoiler: they don’t. Time never tells you how fast it is moving until the children you were guiding are suddenly the ones reaching back to guide someone else. We thought soccer was the point, but it was only the place where we were lucky enough to watch them become the extraordinary young women they are today. That they became exceptional players along the way now feels almost beside the point.

To our 2009s: we were lucky to watch it happen. It will always be us.

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