🎩 NATIONAL PLAYOFFS ROSTER
A mix of elite ‘27 & ‘28 talent will represent TopHat 09 Gold in Norco, California.
🏆 5x SE Conference Champions
🏆 2x GA Champions Cup Champions
The job isn���t finished. One goal remains.
@ImYouthSoccer @JREskilson @travismclark @VicOlorunfemi10
🛡️ Player Spotlight: @PaxtonBattaglia
TopHat 09 Gold | 2028 | Defender
An elite, modern CB who wins duels, organizes the back line, and breaks lines with her distribution.
📍 Milton HS | GPA: 3.9
📊 TopDrawer #70 Nat’l | #17 DEF
🇺🇸 2x USYNT Regional ID
🏅 Champions Cup Best XI
🔥 Player Spotlight: @EmilyBaxter2009
Class of 2028 | Midfielder
An elite technical midfielder who creates chances, combines in tight spaces, and impacts the game in the final third.
📍 Whitefield Academy | (4.0)
📊 TDS #51 Nat’l | #15 FWD
🏆 2x GA Champions Cup Best XI
🔥 Player Spotlight: Brooke Barnes
2028 | TopHat 09 Gold | Def/Mid
An outside back with elite recovery speed and high soccer IQ. A two-footed threat who defends with toughness and joins the attack with purpose.
📍 Westminster | GPA: 3.83
📽️ Highlights: https://t.co/l1sd8WHSKA
🔥Player Spotlight: @ava_hidalgo13
TopHat | 2028 | Winger
A dynamic winger with the pace, quickness, and 1v1 ability to put defenders under constant pressure - stretches defenses & is dangerous in the final 3rd.
📍 Whitefield Academy (GPA:3.8)
📊 Prep: #23 State | #12 Position
TopHat 09 Gold | Class of 2028
June 15 is close…These athletes have led one of the nations most dominant teams:
#1 U17 GA Team
#6 National Ranking (TDS)
2x Champions Cup Champions
36-2-1 record (U16 & U17)
200 goals scored/28 allowed
Spotlights begin tomorrow: @ImYouthSoccer
@MarkCHealey Mark, I think the happy medium would be a manager who holds players accountable for mistakes, lack of fundamentals etc. set standards for what is acceptable and what is not.
@HoffWFAN Was Stearns on board with signing him of course who wouldn’t be but seeing the way he operates realistically tell me how you think he would’ve offered 15 years to anyone ball player ?
@HoffWFAN Soto to the Mets happened because Cohen was determined to prove to the Yankees that the Mets would no longer have to take a backseat to them on any particular player. It would not have been Stearns not going to 15 years on Soto.
@HoffWFAN I promise you, the Mets are not signing Juan Soto. If those negotiations were left up to David, Stearns and Cohen wasn’t involved please stop the nonsense and the lunacy. It’s not a good luck for you.
@TalkinMetsNoG Do you really think Juan Soto is a New York Met without Steve Cohen? That was not Stearn’s idea. David Stearns would not offer a 15 year contract to Willie Mays in his prime ! So please stop the lunacy.