California Storm is an American women'ssoccer team, founded in 1995 as theSacramento Storm, before changing its name the following season.[citation needed] The team is a member of theWomen's Premier Soccer League and theUSL W League, both semi-professional women's leagues in the United States. The team plays in the North Division of the Pacific Conference in the WPSL and in the NorCal Division for the USL W League. The team was a founding member of theW-League, then left in 1998 to become one of the founding teams of the WPSL. It returned in 2022 and will field a team in both leagues.[1]
The team plays its home games in the stadium of Davis Legacy Sports Complex inDavis, California but considersSacramento, California its home and regularly holds free soccer clinics throughout the region. The club's colors are white and navy blue.
The California Storm have won the PacNorth Conference eight times, including 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2023. They have won a WPSL record of 4 National Championships (1999, 2002, 2004 and 2022). Their 2020 WPSL season was cancelled due to the pandemic but in that time, they added new sponsors, signed withPuma, and started a U-21 team, which eventually became their WPSL team. The semi-professional team will look to become the only team to hold championships in both the USL W League and WPSL within the upcoming years.
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Jerry Zanelli (1995–2018)
