News and History Pages
News from Region 76
Check this page out from time to time for news from our program. We update it as often as we can, especially during the season. Contributions are welcome.
Also, there are links to our Regional Calendar and the Beverly Hills High School soccer teams' schedule of games. Many AYSO players and alumni/ae play on the school's teams.
News from 1996 - 2007 is posted on our History page. You can also read two diaries recounting the experiences of our teams at the National Games in Kalamazoo in 1996 and in Hawaii in 2002.
2009
October 21: AYSO National just announced that Region 76 has earned its highest designation for a region, the Region Platinum Award, in the annual regional assessment. The award recognizes overall quality as well as following a large number of AYSO guidelines and policies governing areas such as the coaching program, the referee program, regional governance, use of technology and many other features.
2008
The 12th Annual Sportsmanship Cup was held on Saturday and Sunday, December 20 and 21, 2008. Congratulations to the Sportsmanship Champions:
| B14-1041-9: South Los Angeles - Mario Araujo | G14-12-2: South Torrance - Julie Orlov G14-76-8: Beverly Hills - Steve Hendry |
| B12-7-1: Westchester - Taus Dana B12-69-5: Pacific Palisades - Sam Lee |
G12-69-3: Pacific Palisades - Scot Vorse G12-19-4: Culver City - Humberto Benitez G12-1031-1 South Los Angeles - Brian Thompson |
| B10-68-1: Camarillo - Lorenzo Ruiz B10-12-1: Torrance - Michael Wolff |
G10-33-6: Encino - Sergio Shkurovich G10-76-5: Beverly Hills - Robin Corbett |
| Founder's Trophy: G14-363-1 Moorpark Joseph Johns - Ho! Ho! Ho! | |
Our 2008 regular season was our most successful ever. Over 2,300 players. Hundreds of coaches. A couple of hundred referees! And an immeasurable amount of fun. Congratulations to our league champions, coached by Daryoush Dayan (BU14), Jeff Colvin (GU14), Mike McAlister and Steven Dunn (BU12), Tom Gores and Stuart Pollock (GU12), and Rick Wolfen and Brian Schirn (GU10). (Someone will let us know one day who won Boys Under 10!) Thanks to all who helped and all who played. And it will be even better in 2009.
Our 2007-8 All Star teams were honored at City Hall on May 20.
April: Changing of the guard. Jeff Pop takes over as Regional Commissioner from Lance Roth, who has served on the Regional Board of Directors since 1991 and as Regional Commissioner since 2002 (six seasons). Lance continues to serve on the Board as director of Special Projects. Other significant appointments: Mike Karon and Shirley Watkins as Assistant Regional Commissioners and Michael Karlin (who continues to serve as our webmaster), Robin Corbett as Coach Administrators for U10 and above and U6 and U8 respectively and Uniforms Coordinator Rick Wolfen. We welcome to the Board Ben Neydavood, who will be working with Mark Landry as division director for Girls U12, and Richard Hull and Richard Winter, who will be division directors in Boys Under 10, our largest division.
February: Over one third of our teams from 2007 returned full sets of uniforms under our Uniform Donation Program. Program coordinator Shirley Watkins laundered everyone of them and donated them through our Area to a variety of low-income soccer programs.
2007
December 15 and 16. The Cup was another terrific success this year and the weather was just wonderful. Congratulations to the medal winners and to all the teams who participated in such a friendly spirit. Now go try behaving like this at home! We have also posted a link to some pictures taken by Michael Kahn. If you have other photographs you would like us to post or link to, send an email to our webmaster, Michael Karlin.
| Division | Boys | Girls |
| U14 | 76 Beverly Hills Coach Behnam G. Nejad runner-up: |
13 Pasadena Coach Dave Redding (*) runner-up: |
| U12 | Joint Winners 147 Ojai Coach Stuart Griffith (*) 76 Beverly Hills Coach Gerald Maestu (*) |
76 Beverly Hills Coach Shirley Watkins runners-up: |
| U10 | 70 West Los Angeles
Coach Jim Tidball runners-up: |
76 Beverly Hills Coach Robin Corbett (*) Joint runners-up: 78 Hollywood-Wilshire, Coach Frances Pang and 76 Beverly Hills Coach Rick Wolfen |
| Founder's Trophy: BU12 Westchester (Coach
- Raymundo Becerra) * indicates the team earned a perfect score |
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This was the best year ever for Beverly Hills teams - there have been several years where we didn't win any awards!
December 2: Registration for Fall 2008 begins.
September: Our season kicked off with a record number of players and teams - 171 teams, over 2200 players.
Our income statement for the year ending June 30, 2007 is posted here.
2006
Our final event of the year, the 10th Annual Sportsmanship, expertly run by Carla Derhy and Selo Imrohoroglu, with weather provided by heavenly non-intervention. We were featured this year in AYSO National's Tournament eNewsletter. Here are the winners and runners-up:
| Division | Boys | Girls |
| U14 | 58 Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Coach Ron St. Marie runner-up: |
14 Woodland Hills Coach Woody Wilson runner-up: |
| U12 | 78-3
Hollywood-Wilshire,
Coach Ken Campbell runner-up: |
68 Camarillo Coach Chris D'Onofreo runner-up: |
| U10 | 78 Hollywood-Wilshire Coach Josh Armstrong runner-up: |
Joint winners: 363 Moorpark, Coach Bill Gratke and 4 Agoura-Westlake Coach Howard Berman Highest 2nd place team in all three divisions: |
November 3 at 5 pm at Beverly Hills High School - Dedication of the new synthetic grass field, funded in part by a major donation by our Region 76.
AYSO's financial year ends on June 30. Our 2004-5 income statement is posted here.
Congratulations to Netta Pelleg and Ariel Anson, winners of the Miriam Henderson Awards for 2005-6. A four-year member of the Beverly Hills High School Varsity team, Netta was co-captain in her final season and will be attending San Diego State; Ariel, who captained her team at LACES, is going to attend UC Irvine.
Our Boys Under 10 All Star team has had a great run - second
place in Area 1-P, runners up in the Section tournament and, as a
result, honorable participants in the Tri-section tournament on
March 26, the first Beverly Hills team to reach this stage since
1997. The team was honored at a meeting of the Beverly Hills
City Council on May 23, 2006. Click on the picture for a
larger version.
Last updated February 12, 2010 at 09:53 AM