SBVC Women’s Soccer: Coach named CCCSCA SoCal Coach of the Year

SBVC Women’s Soccer head coach Kristin Hauge has been presented with the California Community College Soccer Coaches Association (CCCSCA) Southern California Coach of the Year award. Although coach Hauge has won multiple Foothill Conference Coach of the Year awards and the State Coach of the Year award, this is the first regional award for the veteran coach. In 2015, Hauge guided her squad to a 16-3-3 record, the Foothill Conference Championship and a CCCAA playoff berth as the #5 seed in southern California. For the past twelve years, Hauge has ruled the sidelines on the pitch at San Bernardino Valley College. Owning a 167-47-38 mark at Valley, she is the winningest coach in Valley College soccer history. Since taking over mid-season in 2004, Hauge has guided the program to eleven consecutive winning seasons, nine straight CCCAA state playoff berths, seven Foothill Conference titles and a State Championship in 2010. Hauge's number one priority continues to be helping her athletes reach their goals both on and off the field. Academics, graduation and transfer are a priority. Nearly 100% of the players that play two years in the program graduate/transfer to 4-year universities most of whom receive athletic scholarships. "I would like to thank the CCCSCA for this incredible honor. I love coaching soccer and working with the student-athletes of the Inland Empire communities. Helping these young women grow as athletes but also achieve their academic, career and lifelong goals is a true blessing.” Also announced was sophomore forward Leandra Garlinger (Riverside John Wesley North) and sophomore midfielder Julissa Magana (Bloomington H.S.) were named to the 2015 CCCSCA Women's Soccer All-State Team. The team finished the season ranked 7th in the nation by the NSCAA, ending the year with a 16-3-3 overall record and a 6-1-1 conference record. They were rewarded with a #5 seed in the Southern California Regional Playoffs. As a reward for their seventh Conference Championship, the team was bestowed with the Conference MVP award, four first team All-Conference honors and four second team All-Conference honors. In the opening round of the CCCAA Southern California Regionals, #5 San Bernardino Valley hosted the #12 seeded Santa Barbara City Vaqueros. SBVC took an early 1-0 lead on a goal by freshman forward Baylee Williams (Beaumont H.S.) in the 2nd minute then added to their lead in the 45th minute when sophomore forward Leandra Garlinger (Riverside John Wesley North) found the back of the net. SBVC would hold off the Vaqueros in the second half, winning the match-up and moving on to travel to the #4 seeded Cerritos Falcons. While the game did not present the result SBVC was looking for, four of the eleven starters in the playoff game were freshman, one of those four freshmen was an All-Foothill Conference selection and prospects are looking good going into next season. Garlinger had the prestigious honor of being named 2nd Team All-American by NSCAA for Junior College Women's Division III. In addition, Garlinger was also named 1st Team All-West Region by NSCAA for Junior College Women's Division III and sophomore midfielder Julissa Magana (Bloomington H.S.) was named to the 2nd Team. Garlinger had the prestigious honor of being named the Foothill Conference Most Valuable Player, she led the Conference, finishing 6th in state in goals scored with 22 and wrapped up a top 10 spot in the state in total points with 53. An offensive beast, she had three game winning goals, two "hat tricks" and five multi-goal games. Women's Soccer had eight players named All-Foothill Conference, those named to this year's First Team All-Foothill Conference were sophomore defender Allison Herrin (Redlands Citrus Valley) and freshman defender Cailey Avilla-Hogue (Beaumont H.S.), both started 20 or more games and helped anchor a defense that supplied 13 team shutouts. Also added to the First Team All-Foothill Conference was sophomore midfielder Danielle Kakebeen (Rancho Cucamonga H.S.) put together a solid performance in the middle, scoring a goal and assisting on two others while taking 23 shot attempts and Magana who started all 22 games for SBVC, scored three goals and assisted on nine others, while taking 47 shots. On the Second Team All-Foothill Conference were sophomore midfielder Jenny Guyett (Redlands Citrus Valley) who started in 15 games and appeared in all 22, had five assists on the season and sophomore defender Tirzah Trejo (Redlands East Valley) started 20 games and had four assists in 2015. Trejo was a 2014 First Team All-Foothill Conference selection. Also added to the Second Team were sophomore midfielder Claudia Zepeda (Cathedral City H.S.) scored four goals and assisted on three, taking 23 shots. Freshman midfielder Alondra Gildo-Ceballos (Fontana H.S.) participated in 21 games, starting 10, and had the biggest assist of the season at home versus Rio Hondo on October 16th, when she lobbed in a pass to Williams for the game winner, then in the 87th minute added an insure goal of her own on an assist from Garlinger. It was another exciting run for SBVC Women's Soccer head coach Kristin Hauge and her program, there are many things to look forward to in the upcoming season with the change in athletics Conferences to the Pacific Coast Athletic Conference. SBVC has a 33-0-3 regular season home record since the beginning of the 2012 season and will carry that record into the 2016 season. In 2016, SBVC will have to face San Diego Miramar, MiraCosta, Palomar, Mt. San Jacinto and College of the Desert in a home-at-home series and then have a one game head-to-head with San Diego Mesa, San Diego City, Cuyamaca, Imperial Valley, Southwestern and Grossmont. It should be a thrilling 2016 campaign.