Score a goal with your family this season with Season Tickets to the Yakima Reds. The Yakima Reds are the areas only semi-pro soccer team, and they are getting ready for their 2009 soccer season. They need the help of the community to make it all happen. You can help make this the most exciting Yakima Reds season yet. To get it all started, you can help by purchasing 2009 season tickets at a special holiday price.
Just $50 gets you a pass to all 8 home games plus an extra incentive package, makes this an Holiday gift.
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For more information contact Perry Piercy at (509) 654-0464
2009 News
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2009 PDL Open Tryouts Announced - 2009-01-29
The Yakima Reds will host their Open Tryouts for the 2009 Season on Saturday, March 21st, 2009. Open Tryouts will be held at Marquette Stadium. Tryouts will start promptly at 1:00 PM. We anticipate the tryouts to be over by 4:00 PM.All participants must wear proper attire for weather conditions. All must have shin guards and proper soccer cleats. Participants should bring their own ball and water bottle.
PDL Men must arrive early and fill out registration information. There is a $25.00 tryout fee (Cash or money order) for all PDL participants. Participants must be 18 years or older, and have ID available. If player is under 18, they must have parent or legal guardian present to fill out paperwork.
All PDL forms can be downloaded from this site by clicking "PDL League" then "Forms" tabs. Please make sure you download both the tryout form and the liability waiver,as both are needed for tryouts.
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM - PDL Men's Tryouts (Men ages 18 and up)
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2009 Season Schedule Announced - 2009-01-29
The Yakima Reds will kick-off their 2009 Regular Season by hosting two of the 4 new Northwest PDL teams. The Reds will host the Seattle Wolves, Friday, May 8th at Marquette Stadium. This new PDL team is a joint venture between Seattle Wolves FC and Crossfire Premier Soccer Club of Redmond, WA, one of the top youth soccer organizations in the United States. Also joining the Northwest Division is another Washington franchise, the Kitsap Pumas of Bremerton. The Kitsap Pumas are under the ownership of former USL First Division Seattle Sounders co-owner Robin Waite. The team will play in the Premier Development League with professional status beginning in 2009, making it the first professional sports franchise in the area. Waite will operate the club, created via a transfer of franchise rights from the former Sounders team, on the Kitsap peninsula, a prominent population base in the Puget Sound region across from Seattle, Washington. Centrally located in downtown Bremerton, Wash., the club will play its matches on the pristine grass of Bremerton Memorial HS Stadium. The Reds will host the Kitsap PDL team on Saturday, May 9th at Marquette Stadium. Both Friday and Saturday games start at 7:05 PM.The number of PDL teams in Washington State now totals 5, with teams already in Tacoma, Yakima, and Spokane. These Washington teams represent half of the total number in the Northwest Division, with the remaining 5 sides in Oregon or British Columbia, Canada.
The Northwest Division also added a team in Portland, OR under the USL First Division, Portland Timbers. The Timbers U-23s will be an amateur team comprised of standout players from collegiate and youth levels around the Northwest. The new Timbers U-23s team will serve as a development program for the Timbers first team.
The fourth new franchise added to the Northwest Division is located in Victoria, BC and is known as the Victoria Highlanders. In January 2008 the USL announced Victoria, British Columbia as the first expansion team for the 2009 Premier Development League season. The launch of the Victoria Highlanders FC came on the heels of the city�s successful service as one of the hosts of the U-20 FIFA World Cup and the announcement of the construction of a new westshore stadium which is scheduled to open in time for the first kick off. The Highlanders, headed by majority owner Alex Campbell, began efforts in 2008, by building the team and its youth foundation in preparation for the 2009 campaign. �The PDL is a well established league in the US and Canada and we look forward to competing with veteran Northwest Division teams such as the Abbotsford Mariners, Cascade Surge and Yakima Reds among others, including the newly formed Vancouver Whitecaps Residency program. We expect great rivalries, particularly with our Canadian counterparts. Our tremendous new playing facility will enhance the entertainment value for our fans and will attract quality players to the program" said owner Campbell.
The Yakima Reds will play an 16 game schedule, with 4 of the 16 games doubling as Open Cup Qualifying games.
"We are very excited for the addition of the 4 new Northwest Division franchises", said Head Coach Hector Vega. "This is very advantageous for the Pacific Northwest teams, as it gives us great competition, and at the same time cuts our length of travel down from previous years". The Yakima Reds had to travel to Utah the past couple years to play against the BYU Cougars and the Ogden Outlaws, as they were then included in the Northwest Division. With the addition of the 4 new franchises in the Northwest Division, BYU and Ogden were moved into the Southwest Division for the 2009 season. "I truly believe that the Northwest Division will rise to be one of the toughest divisions in the PDL", said coach Vega.
To view the 2009 Season Schedule click on the "PDL LEAGUE" tab, then click on "Schedule".
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