Pella Christian Girls Soccer Excited for Depth in Upcoming Season

Roster grows to 36 players, allowing Eagles to focus varsity and JV squads separately

Mar. 24, 2026 at 3:58pm

Got story updates? Submit your updates here. ›

The Pella Christian girls soccer team is looking forward to the upcoming season with a larger roster of 36 players, up from 21 last year. Head coach Matt Dowie says the increased depth will benefit the program as they navigate a shortened 8-week season with 15 games, including many varsity-JV doubleheaders.

Why it matters

With a condensed schedule and frequent doubleheader games, having a larger roster will allow Pella Christian to better manage playing time and focus their varsity and JV squads separately, rather than having to rotate all players through both games.

The details

The Pella Christian girls soccer team will open their season on April 3rd with a 1pm home non-conference game against Albia. The Eagles are slated to compete 15 times over the 8-week season, with 5 of those weeks featuring multiple games per week.

  • The Pella Christian girls soccer team begins the season on Friday, April 3rd.
  • The season will run over 8 weeks, with 15 total games.

The players

Matt Dowie

Head coach of the Pella Christian girls soccer team.

Got photos? Submit your photos here. ›

What they’re saying

“It feels like there's more games than practices once the season gets started. It's so shrunk in terms of how long the season is. So, it will be really nice to have these numbers. Another aspect is we're going to kind of split JV and varsity for the most part, and so it'll be great to have girls that are focused on varsity and then that's the only minutes they play throughout the week and the season, and not having to kind of run all of the girls for two games every time that we have a game.”

— Matt Dowie, Head coach

The takeaway

With a condensed 8-week schedule and frequent varsity-JV doubleheaders, the increased roster size of 36 players will allow the Pella Christian girls soccer team to better manage playing time and focus their varsity and JV squads separately, rather than having to rotate all players through both games.