30 JUN 2010 - For the second straight tournament Chelsea G97 Blue advanced out of bracket play making it to the finals. Going 2-0 in bracket by outscoring it's opponent 9-0 the team played fit and organized. The Sunday's final proved challenging, eventually being upended by a physical but talented Eclipse team 1-0. Keep up the great work. Marching on together!

31 MAY 2010 - Facing silver and silver-elite competition in bracket play, G97 prevailed under difficult circumstances. The first game produced an opening round victory thanks to goals by Nadia Lee (2) , Luli Bethencourt (1), and a wonderful set piece goal by Julia Tan (1).

The second game proved difficult. Once again Nadia Lee produced the only goal with a wicked blast in the side netting from about 20 yards. Defenders hanged tough under a nasty assault by a talented Tustin striker crew. The back four lead by Emily Pelstring, CeCe McPhee, Makayla Lichtenwalter, and McKenna Posada bent, but never broke. Many nice saves under pressure were made by our goal tender Gillian Kliss. Once again the team was supported with excellent distribution lead by Kaylee Bolin, Melany Dillion, Audrey Briseno, Mariya Matinez, and Jackie Cloutier. Keep up the great work girls!

28 JAN 2010 - After an opening round loss the team rebounded with three straight wins including clean sheets in the semi finals and finals. According to coach Bolin: "Our athletes could have packed it in after the first loss, but they didn't". "They came back even stronger and reorganized themselves which shows a lot of heart". Second round action saw G97 Blue returning to their prior run of good form. Pinpoint passing and surgical finishing produced a 2-1 victory with Ashley Roskelly scoring the first goal with a clinical finish placing the ball calmly in the back of the net. Luli Bethencourt then provided the winning goal with a nice bit of skill beating the goalkeeper off the far post. Fantastic services leading to the assists were provided by Quincy Burtenshaw and Kaylee Bolin.

The victory was enough to place G97 Blue in the semi-finals were they faced the first place team from the other bracket. But Ashley Roskelly's 2 goal performance (both of which where 20 yard rockets!) was too much and G97's run of good form continued with a 2-0 victory. Excellent team work provided by Emily Pelstring, Makinna Posada, Dominique Oden, Karlie Bennett, and Julia Tan provided the necessary build up to produce such fine finishes. Back up goalkeeper, Jessica Matson, produced the clean sheet which set a rematch of game one for the final.

In the final, facing a determined and gritty silver team they had previously lost to, G97 maintained possession and balance which lead to a foul resulting in set piece just outside the penalty box. Set piece specialist, Kaylee Bolin, produced a wicked blast over the wall which proved too much for the goalkeeper putting Blue up 1-0 going into the half. The second half picked up where the first ended with G97 providing the majority of possession. With 10 minutes left in the game, Kaylee Bolin again fired a blast past the goalkeeper cementing the game and the tournament championship. Clean sheets were compliments of CC McPhee, Makayla Lichtenwalter, Julissa Zuniga, Audrey Briseno, and GK Gillian Kliss. Well done girls! And congratulations!

23 NOV 2009 - Chelsea G97 - Blue finished an awesome season in spectacular fashion with an undefeated 13-0-1 record! Our athletes worked very hard thanks to continued improvement in foot speed, skills, and tactical shape. All combined to make this a successful growing opportunity.

The defending core lead by Kaylee Bolin, Audrey Briseno, Cecilia McPhee, Makayla Lictenwalter, and Gillian Kliss gave up only 4 goals ALL SEASON! Gillian produced a total 11 clean sheets. Truly tremendous!

All fall, the team had been working on the linkage between the defenders and strikers. Which means all things went through our midfielders in transition. The midfielder crew lead by Ashley Roskelly, Madeleine ("Maddie") Olsen, Julia Tan, Emily Pelstring, and Dominique Oden served up those "killer-through-balls" which lead to 50 goals for the season. Awesome distribution team!

So who scored those 50 goals? Our quick and tuff strikers lead by Lauren ("Luli') Bethencourt, Quincy Burtenshaw, Karlie Bennett, and Jessica Matson supplied a powerful scoring punch. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight IN the dog! Fabulous finishing girls!

With certain promotion looming, the team is looking forward to the many challenges we face. Congratulations on a fantastic season! Keep up the hard work!

28 MAY 2009 - Chelsea G97 finished it's spring campaign where they started: in the finals! G97 advanced to the finals in San Bernardino after completing pool play and semi's going 4-0. All four by shut out. Then, just one week later, the girls made it to finals again at the Irvine Memorial Day Classic. This time it took sudden death PK's to establish a winner.

G97 has played in four tournaments since the first of the year: Arsenal Winter Classic, California Spring Cup, CSL Spring Cup, and the Irvine Memorial Day Classic. Making it to the finals in ALL FOUR! Champions in one! Overall a tremendous spring season thanks to the hard work by all. Keep up the hard work girls!

Our players who produced these outstanding results are: Gillian Kliss (GK), Jessica "Mad Dog" Matson (Sweep), Cecilia McPhee (D), Dominique Oden (D), Makayla Lichtenwalter (D), Stephanie Hosband (D/M), Karlie Bennett (M), Cassy Lopez (D), Kaylee Bolin (M), Ashley Roskelly (M), Madeleine Olson (M), Julia Tan (M), Lauren "Luli" Bethencourt, Quincy "Q" Burtenshaw, and Molly Melanson (guest). You all rock! Finally, Chelsea G97 is looking for at least one highly motivated player to compete with us the fall. If interested please contact us at jckliss@aol.com.

16 MAR 2009 - Our G97 team started the spring season with a Championship win at the California Spring Cup in Anaheim going 4-0.

Our attack finished extremely well while our defenders, who were under a lot of pressure all tournament long, bent but never broke only giving up 4 goals with one clean sheet.

This is a great start to our spring season. Keep up the hard work! Great job girls!

18 JAN 2009 - Chelsea G97 tied a very talented and undefeated silver Real So Cal-Black to advance to the finals. The team went 2-0-1 in bracket play by scoring 13 goals while giving up 0. At the end of the day a very strong silver CRSC Infinity team was too much to handle in the finals.

Kudos to our girls for continuing to battle under difficult circumstances. You continue to develop and improve with each tournament. Well done ladies. Congratulations G97!

31 AUG 2008 - The summer training session ended on a high note with a trip to the finals for G97 Blue. During the summer the team worked hard on the fundamentals of defending. Over the last four tournaments the team averaged less than 1 goal against per game. Great job defenders! In our last 14 games our goal keeper, Gillian produced 8 clean sheets. Tremendous job Gillian!

Congratulations to all the girls on a job well done during the tournament. We are very proud of you!

11 MAR 2008 - Playing as a team for the first time, they prevailed over their opposition at every turn. Controlling both sides of the pitch, Chelsea scored 18 goals and only allowed 1.

They played with a lot of heart and determination and never wavered from their goals to play hard, not give up, and have fun!

This championship was truly a team effort with all girls contributing whether it was the great defending and passing by Bridget, Breanna, Adele, MaKayla, Camille, or the hat trick by Kaylee and Luli, or the assists and goals by Molly, Jessie, Karlie, Dominique, Ashley, C.C., and Sophia, or the amazing saves by goalies Gillian and Kassidy each girl gave 100 percent!