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By Grant Clark

Growing up in Brazil, where soccer is more religion than sport, Rodrigo Dos Santos Queiroz fondly recalls playing barefoot as a kid in the streets of Rio de Janeiro.

I started playing soccer at a very young age in Ethiopia - this is all we did all day long. We used to make our own soccer balls and we played street soccer with friends until night time. The first time I came to America I was 11 years old.

Juan P. Murillo, Soccer

“Soccer is such a global sport. It’s amazing when people from different backgrounds and countries can come together for a unified goal. I think we need that in society right now.”

Seven SPSCC student athletes, former student athletes, and coaches have been nominated for the 2018 Sports Awards. Award winners will be announced at the 2018 Sports Awards, hosted by Thurston County's Sports commission, on June 19 at Indian Summer Golf & Country Club from 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Read the entire story on the Clipper Athletics website.

 

After recruiting, try-outs, practices and hours of intense preseason preparation, SPSCC Clipper Athletics’ Men’s Soccer and Women’s Volleyball teams are ready to compete. Preseason play begins August 30 with their first league games happening in September.