The 2022-2023 Christchurch School soccer team includes, front, from left, managers Jasmin Aberle, Cece Jablonski and Julia Fritzlen; Ignacio Rodriguez de Torres (Madrid, Spain), Nikolas Salas Garcia (Madrid, Spain), Davis Ball (Bruington), Alvaro Serrano (Boadilla de Monte, Spain), Owen Smiley (Urbanna), Blake Berry (St. Stephens Church), Connor Nunnally (Charlottesville), Tomas Navarro Sarda (Barcelona, Spain), Managers Olatz Zorriketa Arteta, Becca Cook; middle, same order, Leonardo Markus Nunes (Cape Town, South Africa), Seaborn Barker (Oak Hall), John Ball (Bruington), Alex Moncrieff (Chicago, Ill.), Jackson Pyles (Christchurch), Jorge Cuetara Godoy (Boadilla Del Monte, Spain), Landon Reihs (Irvington), Will Faulconer (Culpeper), Jorge Serrano (Boadillia Del Monte, Spain), Manager Martina Barrientos, Assistant Coach Peter Goodrich; and back, same order, Assistant Coach Donny Pyles, Head Coach Matt Schaefer, Jan Todo Vives (Sant Pol de Mar, Spain), Moses Davila (Guatemala City, Guatemala), Alfonso Suarez Escobedo (Lugo de Llanera, Spain), Charlie Blankstein (Burnaby, Canada), Pablo Granados (Madrid, Spain), Joseph Usueyibo-Solomon (Muscat, Oman), Che Gonteb (Windhoek, Namibia), Tayloe Emery (Warsaw), Moseley Davidson (Earlysville), and Thomas Updyke (Warrenton)(Contributed)
Pair from Middlesex on top ranked VISAA team
The Christchurch School varsity boys soccer team is off to a dominating start this fall. The team appeared at No. 1 in the first Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association (VISAA) Division II season rankings poll released on Sept. 21. Other schools in VISAA Division II include Hampton Roads Academy, Norfolk Collegiate, North Cross School, The Steward School, Blue Ridge School, Highland School, Seton School, Fredericksburg Christian, The Covenant School, Nansemond-Suffolk Academy, Trinity Christian, Peninsula Catholic, Norfolk Christian, Virginia Episcopal School, Atlantic Shores Christian and Hargrave Military.
The team has amassed an impressive 6-3-0 record, with two of three ties coming against Division I teams Benedictine College Prep and St. Christopher’s School, both of Richmond.
The team is coached by Matthew Schaefer, in his 20th year at the helm, along with assistant coaches Donny Pyles and Peter Goodrich.
Seahorse squad captains are John Ball, son of Lewis and Becky Ball of Bruington; and Ignacio Rodriguez de Torres, son of Raquel de Torres Alvarez and Pedro Rodriguez Sanchez of Madrid, Spain.
