On Friday, Yavapai started the 2010 season strong with a 25-13, 25-9, 25-10 victory over Garden City in the Runnin’ Lopes Invitational. Freshmen opposite Natasha Ray led YC with 13 points on 8 kills, 3 aces, and 2 blocks. Sophomore outside hitter Haley Shackelford led the Riders’ with 10

The number five ranked Roughrider soccer team began the 2010 campaign with a 3 – 1 victory over Paradise Valley Community College Friday night, in Prescott Valley. YC is now 21-1-0 all-time in home openers and 31-0-0 at the Amphitheater in Prescott Valley.

The Roughriders got off to

The 2010-11 Roughrider athletic seasons begin this weekend. Both the nationally ranked soccer and volleyball teams will be in action.

Head Coach Matt Cohen and the lady spikers travel to Lamar, Colorado to participate in the Running’ Lopes Invitational. YC is currently ranked #24 in

Game Day Preview

Volleyball

Yavapai College at the Runnin’ Lopes Invitational
Friday, Aug. 27 starting at 10 AM
Lamar, CO

* Participating Teams: Lamar Community College, Trinidad State Community College, Sheridan College, Laramie County Community College, Western

Jerry Dawson joins the Yavapai baseball staff after serving as the head baseball coach at Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Arizona for the past 37 years. Coach Dawson has been the only head coach in the history of the school which has produced over 150 graduates who have continued their baseball

Roughrider volleyball players Haley Shackelford and Rachel Lindley will appear on the Tri-City Sports Round-Up Saturday, 8/21/10. The show airs at 8:06 a.m. on 1490 AM or online at www.kyca.info.

The USA Junior Softball Team went undefeated in the III Pan American Championships in Bogota, Columbia August 8-14 to qualify for the International Softball Federation (ISF) Junior Women’s World Championship to be held December 2011 in Cape Town, South Africa. USA softball dominated the competition

Members of the 2010 Yavapai College Soccer Team will conduct two youth soccer clinics from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. at the following locations:

· Prescott Valley (Saturday, Aug. 14) Mountain Valley Park

· Prescott (Saturday, Aug. 21) Ken Lindley Field

Boys

The 2010 Roughrider volleyball team enters the new season with a #24 pre-season ranking. YC looks to capitalize on last season’s success in which the lady spikers finished the season as the NJCAA Division I Region I Runners-up. Fellow conference foe Eastern Arizona College checks in at #13.

The Roughrider baseball team has announced that Assistant Coach Brandon Bailey has accepted an assistant coaching position at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, TX. The institution is a member of the Lone Star Conference an, NCAA Division II affiliate.

Bailey spent two seasons with

Yavapai College has been ranked in the top 10 in every weekly poll since the first poll of 1990. In addition, the Roughriders have been ranked at number one, 75 times. Tradition never graduates! The Roughriders are ranked number five in this year’s pre-season poll with 22 new players on the 2010

Sophomore softball players Molly Brossart and Kylie Morin have committed to the University of South Carolina for the fall. They will join Ashley Snedeker in the prestigious Southeastern Conference. Snedeker inked with the University of Florida earlier this summer. Brossart and Morin become the fifth