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Christmas came early for the Colorado Springs Switchbacks and Oakland Roots SC played the role of Santa Claus. Despite suffering a 3-0 loss at FC Tulsa, the Switchbacks snuck into the playoffs for a fifth consecutive year as Roots SC defeated Lexington SC to keep the Kentucky club from leapfrogging Colorado Springs in the USL…

There was no absence of gratitude from the Colorado Springs Switchbacks to the fans at Weidner Field on a chilly Saturday evening. Coaches and players walked around the stadium, applauding the fans in their usual fashion, but following Saturday’s 1-0 win over visiting Las Vegas Lights FC, the gesture seemed to mean a bit more. …

The Switchbacks are living between two standards. One is the baseline standard of a competitive club that has been a yearly contender in the USL Championship with playoff berths in every season since 2021. The other is that of the defending league champs, the club that every other team aspires to be. As the team…

Saturday, the Colorado Springs Switchbacks faced a downpour of rain that led to the postponement of their match at Charleston Battery. It was raining in Monday’s make-up match too, raining goals for Battery. Charleston handed Colorado Springs its worst loss of the season in a 5-0 rout on Monday at Patriots Point in Mount Pleasant,…

Do-overs are rare in the world of sports, but Switchbacks will get one in a couple of days. Colorado Springs’ match at Charleston on Saturday was postponed until Monday due to unplayable conditions at Patriots Point in Mount Pleasant, S.C. The kickoff time will be announced at a later time. The match went into a…

Breaking the Colorado Springs Switchbacks’ curse against San Antonio FC last week required a bit of a different approach, according to Switchbacks coach James Chambers.  Forget the metrics, just win.  “There’s a couple of ways to look at your performance. The metric is a were you good out of possession, were you good in possession?…

Saturday was a bittersweet reunion for the Colorado Springs Switchbacks and their fans as former club superstar Hadji Barry returned to Weidner Field and left triumphant. Barry now plays for Hartford Athletic, which earned a 2-0 win over Colorado Springs despite a lopsided advantage for the Switchbacks in the stat book. The result marks three…

The key to growing older may be to embrace what’s new. Switchbacks defender Matt Mahoney is by no means advanced in his years, but at age 30, the captain is definitely one of the elders on the team. He has also been playing some of the best soccer of his career the past two seasons.…