COLLEGE PLACEMENT PROGRAM
OVERVIEW:
The mission and vision for our comprehensive college placement program for SVSA is to streamline college access pathways for all academy players as they move up the age groups. Our goal is to have 100% college placement options for all athletes.
Model and Approach:
- Guidance: Consistently implement a clear and uniform pathway for players and families to navigate the recruitment process, resources to streamline our approach and support to ensure consistent progress
- Structure: Provide clear structures and systems to maximize exposure for academic and athletic support services for our college bound athletes
- Education: Inform our players and families on timelines for the college process, changes in the NCAA recruiting requirements and eligibility
APPROPRIATE COLLEGE ACCESS
Silicon Valley Soccer Academy Players represent a unique opportunity to dominate regional college commitments and post youth soccer opportunities to Bay Area soccer players. College Support is not one size fits all and the program SVSA receives needs to understand the diversity of athletes, school experience and post secondary goals of ALL of its athletes and families, as SVSA draws from the greater Bay Area.
The technical and tactical approach SVSA brings to player development along with the series of varied but typical academic profiles of SVSA players will create a strong recognizable “profile” of the SVSA student athlete. Once these profiles are identified they will be used to establish predictable and consistent connections between the SVSA program and college programs that fit the needs and optimize the college soccer opportunity for our players.
Outcomes of this program will consist of but not be limited to:
- Increased college awareness of SVSA Families
- Increased understanding of the financial aid opportunities available
- Increased number of players from SVSA going to 4 year college programs
- Increased exposure for the SVSA technical and tactical approach to the game
BOYS FROM 2015-2019
Luke Andrews – St Mary’s
Daniel Aguirre: – UC Riverside
Marc Joshua – Stanford
Darragh Buckley – UCSD
Ricky Mendez– San Jose Earthquakes
Carlos Armendariz– UC Bakersfield
Kameron Bolden– UC Riverside
Ashish Chattha -USF
Miguel Guerrero – Cal State Monterey Bay
Matthew Westly – UC Berkeley
Carlos Osorio– UC Riverside
Victor Romero– UC Riverside
Danny Sanchez – SJ State and SJ Earthquakes
Mason Wittman– UNC
Joshua Santillan – Notre Dame
Ruben Raygoza – Dominican
Owen Varela – Georgetown
Gerardo Cortez – Portland Timbers
Jaime Robles – Sac State and Portland Timbers
Ramiro Palencia– CS Dominguez Hills
DiAngelo Gleaves– Chico State
Carlos Zavala– San Jose State
Jorge Lopez – San Jose State
Ethan Briens – San Jose State
Chad Feingold– University of Redlands – 2019-2020
Ollie de Visser -UCLA
Augustine Williams – Galaxy 2
Edwin Lara– Leon MX
Ariel Mbumba – Oakland Roots
David Ramos – Real Salt Lake
GIRLS 2022
Girls 2022 | ||
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Francesca Prescott | ![]() |
Washington University |
Shoshana Gevelber | ![]() |
Brown University |
Hadley Twichell | ![]() |
Carleton College |
Nicole Dressel | ![]() |
Trinity Western University |
Betzy Hermosillo | ![]() |
Sonoma State University |
Katherine Thompson | ![]() |
Pratt Institute |