Thanks to everyone who attended tryouts this year. The coaches are now selecting and notifying the players. If, however, you missed both tryout dates, please contact via email or at (503)626-1923 to find out if any space is available on any of our teams. If you came to tryouts and haven't heard anything yet, we ask you to be patient while the teams are selected and notified.

A handful of photos from the Boys U14 Blue and Girls U14 Gold matches are now available in the November 3rd photo album. The photos were taken through the athletic center windows from the THUSC booth at the THPRD Fall Activities Fair, so the website photographer apologizes for both the quality and limited quantity.

Qualifying is now complete and it was a very successful campaign this year, with THUSC landing 4 teams in Premier and 2 teams in Classic 1. Photos of the weekend's action are available in the photo album. Here are the results:

PQT is now complete. Photos of the weekend's action are available in the photo album. Here are the results.

Congratulations to THUSC's United Yellow, Girls U13 team, for taking first place in the Salem Waterfront's Silver Division. Their record for the tournament was 4-0-2, including victories over two different teams from the local Bridlemile Soccer Club. Well done Yellow!

Congratulations to THUSC's United White, Boys U13 team, on achieving a 2nd place result at the Salem Waterfront tournament. United White lost in the Championship match by a score of 1-0, but performed well. It was a very positive result with qualifying only a week away. Well done White!

THUSC achieved great success at the Tumwater Kick in the Grass tournament this past weekend. Four championships and one second place! Plus, the Girls U13 championship match was an "all THUSC" affair with United Red facing United Yellow. Congratulations to everyone that played and thanks to United Silver, United Red, United Yellow, United Gold, and Extreme for bringing home awards. Well done United!

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All results are available and congratulations to the winners and all participants. Click here for the scores. A special congratulations to Girls U15-Gold champion THUSC Extreme, to Girls U14 Gold 2nd Place THUSC United Gold, Boys U14-Gold 2nd place THUSC United Blue. And don't forget semifinalists in Boys 17/18 THUSC Fusion and in Girls U12 Gold THUSC United Silver. Well done United teams!

THUSC is excited to announce the hiring of Tom Atencio as Club Director. This new position was formed to further the club's efforts to providing local players the opportunity to play at the highest levels. It is time for our club to cast away the tradition of our "neighborhood club" roots and move forward with a commitment to the game that will provide the best of training to our coaches and teams. We continue to strive toward being the best organization for all of the members of our club.

Tom has ten successful years directing youth clubs and serves US Soccer in many roles, including coaching at the regional level, directing State Select (ODP) Programs and scouting for Project 2010. As a Region IV Staff coach, Tom is involved in selecting and training the top players in the 14 western states, a player pool that leads to national team selection. As a Project 2010 Scout, Tom evaluates and selects players for Project 2010, an ambitous plan put forth by US Soccer in hopes of winning the Men's World Cup by 2010.

In addition to serving US Soccer, Tom's history of club building is quite impressive. Tom's club have become state powers (winning multiple state championships) and have provided many colleges (University of Montana, Gonzaga University, University of Southern Colorado, Western Babtist, Boise State University and the University of Idaho, among others) with players.

Coach Atencio's primary roles will be to administer the day-to-day operations of the club, including handling public relations, training teams and coaches, planning THUSC events, clinics, camps, as well as performing other general administrative duties.

Look to the forthcoming Winter Newsletter for more information on Tom and his qualifications. Feel free to contact THUSC with questions on the Club Director position and Tom Atencio.

After months of meetings with various apparel manufacturers and negotiations with local retailers, THUSC has entered into an agreement to outfit all teams and coaches in Nike apparel beginning in June of 2000. Nike will be providing sponsorship for the tournament (now called the THUSC Invitational Presented by Nike), and all THUSC teams will be outfitted in the state of the art "Mercurial" uniform style. In addition to the uniform change, THUSC is changing colors to a slick black/white combination. No more white socks!