Skyline Excessive College in Oakland as soon as fielded one of many Bay Space's most profitable highschool soccer packages, with the late John Beam guiding the Titans to prominence.
Now the college received't even subject a group for the remainder of 2026.
Skyline has canceled the rest of its season, principal Rebecca Huang introduced in an e-mail to the college neighborhood Wednesday. Huang cited "accidents, transfers and different circumstances" as lowering participant availability and making it impractical for Skyline to proceed.
The Titans forfeited their earlier recreation towards Alameda and now will forfeit this week's scheduled recreation towards league rival Oakland Tech. They began the season with decisive losses to Dougherty Valley-San Ramon and Healdsburg, then received their scheduled recreation towards Kennedy-Richmond by forfeit.
Skyline turned the fourth East Bay program to cancel the remainder of its season, becoming a member of Richmond, Kennedy-Richmond and Mount Diablo-Harmony. James Lick-San Jose additionally scrapped its season after forfeiting the primary three video games on its schedule, and Irvington-Fremont canceled its season within the spring.
Skyline consulted with the Oakland Athletic League, Oakland Part of the CIF and the Excessive College Community earlier than making Wednesday's announcement, based on Huang's e-mail.
"It is a resolution we don’t take calmly, and it got here solely after exhausting all different choices," she wrote. "Various components contributed to this resolution, however in the end we shouldn’t have sufficient scholar athletes accessible to securely and persistently subject a group for the rest of the season."
Huang pledged to "rebuild and strengthen" Skyline soccer forward of the 2027 season, by recruiting extra college students for each the varsity and JV packages. She particularly wrote that Skyline "would take the mandatory steps to place Titan Soccer for a robust return subsequent yr."
Beam turned synonymous with Skyline throughout his 17 seasons as the college's head coach (1987-2003). The Titans went 160-33-3 underneath Beam, based on the web site for ; together with 15 Oakland Athletic League championships and 4 undefeated seasons.
Beam then moved to Laney Faculty and e. He gained a measure of fame when he and Laney have been featured on the Netflix sequence, "Final Probability U," in 2020.
Beam was shot in Laney's fieldhouse on Nov. 13 and y. Cedric Irving Jr., a 27-year-old former Laney scholar who performed soccer at Skyline (although not for Beam), was charged with homicide. An Alameda County choose dominated in April that Irving was l.
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