{"id":61911,"date":"2025-11-20T11:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/61911\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T11:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:02:12","slug":"st-anthony-girls-soccer-preview-the562-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/61911\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Anthony GIrls\u2019 Soccer Preview \u2013 The562.org"},"content":{"rendered":"

The562\u2019s high school soccer coverage for the 2025-26 season is sponsored by Long Beach Poly soccer alum Kennedy Justin.<\/a><\/p>\n

The St. Anthony girls\u2019 soccer team continues its growth under fourth-year coach Carina Perez. The Saints went 9-6-1 last year and finished second in the Camino Real League thanks to a 5-3 record, losing their playoff opener to Whittier Christian. This year\u2019s Saints team will be younger after graduating nine senior starters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year we\u2019re pretty young, we only have one senior and the rest are underclassmen,\u201d said Perez. \u201cOur junior class is small but our freshman and sophomore classes are good and they\u2019re looking strong. Last year we had a great season and the players coming back are looking to fill those big roles and help the incoming players understand how competitive it is on varsity. They want to keep growing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Saints\u2019 lone senior is captain Jaelyn Moreno, who\u2019s been a four-year varsity contributor. Moreno has been an attacker but after noticing that the loss of the team\u2019s center back was hampering them in workouts, she told Perez she\u2019d volunteer to take that role.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s who she is, that\u2019s her leadership,\u201d said Perez. \u201cShe brings that energy level and she\u2019s talking and really taking on that role.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moreno said she\u2019s ready to step into a leadership role this year for the young talent on the team, including her little sister, Jeweliana Moreno.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe lost a lot of seniors and we have a smaller team now, but with our incoming freshman we have a good chance of going somewhere,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re talking to them really positively and getting them to not be scared to try new things, to help them grow. I want to be a good example to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The other captains are Leila Meza, the team\u2019s junior keeper, and Adanna Mjeme, who\u2019s playing defense as well.<\/p>\n

Meza is a feel-good story who tore her ACL last year right before the season started, and spent a year working to get back out there.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s been training her but off, she\u2019s strengthening her knee, and she talked to me about how much it sucked being on the bench last year and how excited she is to be back out there this year,\u201d said Perez.<\/p>\n

Mjeme is a junior who\u2019s in a leadership role like Moreno. She started her freshman year as an attacker but moved to defense last year, and her energy and activity have bolstered the Saints\u2019 back line since.<\/p>\n

\"2025<\/a>Jaelyn Moreno is the lone senior for the Saints this year and will try to lead a young squad to more success<\/p>\n

Other key contributors will include sophomores Paloma Toscano and Tatiana Callejas, who will be attacking up top along with Jeweliana Moreno\u2013their alignment will be matchup-specific, but Perez expects them all to score plenty this year. Moreno and Toscano both scored 12 goals last year, and Callejas had the heroic goal that sent the team to the playoffs on a last-second league win.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Other contributors will include freshman Alice Landis, a volleyball\/soccer player that Perez said will play in the middle.<\/p>\n

Perez said it may take her young players some time to adjust to the varsity level but that she expects to be playing their best soccer when the season is getting towards the playoffs.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs long as the girls keep attending practice and gelling, the biggest thing to me is communicating with each other, making sure they work towards what they want together,\u201d said Perez. \u201cOur returners are telling me, \u2018Coach we got this, we\u2019re going to keep building.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The562\u2019s high school soccer coverage for the 2025-26 season is sponsored by Long Beach Poly soccer alum Kennedy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-61911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61911","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=61911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}