Sonoma County Alliance, under the new leadership of Andrew Ziemer, is trying a new approach - less travel, more soccer.

There has been some discussion here lately on how college coaches recruit from the high school level ... or more accurately, how they don't.

Pat Sigler, a 2007 Cardinal Newman High grad, a Santa Rosa United and Sonoma County Alliance and Sonoma County Sol product, has received an invitation to join the U.S. Men's U-20 team in a training session from Dec. 15-22 at Sunset, Fla.