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Over the past two seasons, Santa Cruz High’s Cutler Bauscher, left, totaled 19 goals and 32 assists for the Cardinals. (Juan Flores – Special to the Sentinel)<\/p>\nSANTA CRUZ \u2014 Santa Cruz High senior Cutler \u201cCutty\u201d Bauscher has committed to play NCAA Division I soccer at San Jose State University.<\/p>\n
The Spartans went 12-4-4 overall last season and reached the Western Athletic Conference Tournament championship match under Simon Tobin, a Santa Cruz resident who is stepping down as head coach after 12 seasons at the helm.<\/p>\n
Bauscher is excited to play for promoted assistant Jesus Sanchez, as he leads the Spartans into a new conference, the Mountain West.<\/p>\n
\u201cLocal, good soccer team,\u201d Bauscher said. \u201cThey play good soccer, so I was just so stoked. I\u2019m just super ecstatic. I\u2019m more excited than anything to get better in so many ways.\u201d<\/p>\n
Over the past two seasons, Santa Cruz High’s Cutler Bauscher, left, totaled 19 goals and 32 assists for the Cardinals. (Juan Flores – Special to the Sentinel)<\/p>\n
Bauscher, a 5-foot-8, 140-pound attacking midfielder for Los Gatos United Soccer Club, is already pretty good. He finished his third season with Santa Cruz this season and garnered special honors during all-Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League voting for the second straight year. He was named the league\u2019s 2025-26 Midfielder of the Year after being honored as the Defensive Player of the Year as a junior.<\/p>\n
Bauscher is a tough defensive assignment for opponents given his speed and ability to work in and out of traffic to create for teammates and himself.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven though I\u2019m a smaller player, I\u2019m still quite aggressive,\u201d he said. \u201cI really like to go into things hard. I don\u2019t like to do things half-assed, if that makes sense.\u201d<\/p>\n
Over the past two seasons with the Cardinals, Bauscher totaled 19 goals and 32 assists.<\/p>\n
\u201cCutty is an exceptionally skillful and talented player who loves the game of soccer,\u201d Cardinals coach Adam Anapolsky said. \u201cHis calmness on the ball and vision under pressure will add a new dimension to San Jos\u00e9 State University. He has a way of making difficult situations look easy. I would not be surprised if Cutty leads San Jose State in assists next season and makes an immediate impact.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bauscher didn\u2019t play for the Cardinals as a freshman due to club commitments. He took up the sport as a 4-year-old and has played for some of the area\u2019s top programs, including\u00a0the San Jose Earthquakes\u2019 MLS NEXT and\u00a0Breakers F.C.\u2019s MLS NEXT teams.<\/p>\n
Bauscher, who plans to work at his grandpa\u2019s cattle ranch in Woodlake after he graduates college, entered the season with offers from three D-II programs, CSU-Monterey Bay, Fresno Pacific, and Cal Poly Humboldt. He was also looking at D-II Chico State before he reached out to SJSU.<\/p>\n
The Spartans scouted Bauscher in a pair of matches against Aptos, but he didn\u2019t hear anything from the Spartans until after Los Gatos United technical director Shaun Tsakiris gave Bauscher a glowing recommendation.<\/p>\n
Bauscher took an unofficial visit to SJSU on Feb. 18 and liked everything that he saw.<\/p>\n
The Spartans scouted Bauscher again, and saw him go off for a goal and four assists in Los Gatos\u2019 5-0 win over the River Island Surf on March 15.<\/p>\n
Bauscher shined again in a game in Davis on March 27 and piqued interest from a pair of D-I programs, UC Davis and Sacramento State. Bauscher informed SJSU of his newest pursuers and the Spartans responded with an offer three days later.<\/p>\n
Bauscher said he wanted to play for the Spartans from Day 1. \u201cThey really fit me as a play style because they don\u2019t play super direct,\u201d he said. \u201cThey take pride in technique and things like that. That\u2019s another reason I was super big on them. And I really like the coach.\u201d<\/p>\n
He plans to continue to work on his fitness and cardio in preparation for the faster, more physical game at the next level.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want to find game time and help the team as much as I can,\u201d Bauscher said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTA CRUZ \u2014 Santa Cruz High senior Cutler \u201cCutty\u201d Bauscher has committed to play NCAA Division I soccer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[123483,123479,113613,61426,123480,123481,88,90,89,61383,123482],"class_list":["post-288653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-cardinals-coach-adam-anapolsky","tag-cutler-bauscher","tag-jesus-sanchez","tag-jim-seimas","tag-mens-soccer-college-commitment","tag-ncaa-division-i-san-jose-state-spartans","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-cruz-cardinals","tag-simon-tobin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}