After making it to the Southern California Regional Playoffs and finishing last season as a nationally ranked team, four Cerritos College soccer players have been signed to four-year universities.

Defender Jaime Cano will join Division I Cal State Fullerton next season. The future Titan was named 1st Team All-South Coast Conference, and helped the Falcons end last season ranked No.10 in the country.

Cano’s choice was influenced not only by the proximity of the school, but also because of his major.

“I’m studying business, and they have a pretty good business program, so it had a big influence on my decision” he said.

Defensive Player of the Year Alejandro Covarrubias will join CSU Dominguez’s back line next season.

Covarrubias was supposed to attend UCLA, his first choice, but did not meet their grade requirements.

“I wanted to play there really bad, but stuff happens, you know.”

Despite this, he retains his motivation for the future.

“I’m just ready to get there, work hard and hopefully win a national championship” he stated.

Forward Aaron Macedo and midfielder Juan Ochoa will both be at Cal State LA next season.

Macedo and Ochoa will be filling in the spots of graduating senior Golden Eagles, who won the NCAA Division II West Region Championship this past season.

Macedo was actually recruited by them out of high school, but attended Cerritos instead.

“As soon as I finished here, it was aton option automatically, so I decided to go there,” Macedo said.

Macedo has been playing soccer since the age of four and is thankful to his family for introducing him to soccer at a young age.

As for Ochoa, he will be bring what he learned at Cerritos to the Golden Eagle field.

“We didn’t win, but I learned a lot and that’s a good thing. That’s what I want to do, take my experience over there.”