Royal Palms SC Women's Team Wins UPSL Southeast Conference Florida Central Division Championship

“It’s official — we won the league,” Royal Palms Soccer Club coach Ramtin Amiri said about his women’s team.

The Royal Palms Soccer Club women’s team recently won the UPSL Southeast Conference Florida Central Division championship.

Coach Ramtin Amiri said he is proud of his team and hopes people can see the progress that was made in a short amount of time.

“For the league, I’d like to see more teams,” Amiri said. “I hope people realize that we’re doing good things on our side for men and women. Our men’s program is the longest lasting UPSL team in Florida. Hopefully, the women will have that same success. The women won a trophy their first summer —the men took a little longer but they did as well. Royal Palms Soccer Club, as a whole, is doing good things and I hope when we start in the fall that we get more women to play for us after seeing what we were able to do over the summer.”

Amiri’s younger sister, Saba, is a midfielder on the Royal Palms team. Both siblings played soccer at Flagler Palm Coast High School.

Ramtin Amiri went on to play one season for Daytona State College, then Royal Palms where he played in over 43 games and scored over 31 goals. Last year, he helped his team win the UPSL Florida State Championship. He is beginning his fourth year as FPC's boys head soccer coach and has recently been hired to coach the Ormond Beach Soccer Club’s U17 and U11 boys teams.

Saba played for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University while getting her bachelor’s then master’s degrees in Human Factors Systems. She said she really enjoys playing with Royal Palms.

“It’s definitely a fun experience after playing in college and high school,” she said. “It’s like coming back to the sport that I love and the people I played with at FPC like Malia (Dalzell). It’s just a good environment. I have a good relationship with everyone regardless of whether it’s on the field or off the field. It makes it a lot more enjoyable that my brother is the coach. We both are out here playing the sport that we love. It’s both our passions.”

Twenty-three players make up the Royal Palms roster including three current and four former FPC players, three former Matanzas High School players and one former Seabreeze High School player.

Recent FPC graduate Savannah O’Grady helps coach the team while she rehabilitates her knee following surgery to  repair a torn ACL, MCL and meniscus suffered during a game against Matanzas on Dec. 5.

The youngest player on the team is 15-year-old Ivy Chen who will be an FPC sophomore in the fall. She plays midfielder for the Bulldogs and Royal Palms. She said she has learned from others who have played her position, including, Saba, Denise Davalos and Tori Martino.

“I feel like on this team there are a lot of older players, so it’s obviously better to learn from them just like from my high school team last year when I was a freshman — I had a lot of seniors I learned from,” she said. “It feels nice (being part of this team) but also I know I have to work harder because all of these girls are much better than me.”

The most experienced player on the team is former Matanzas player Miracle Porter who scored 238 goals during her high school career and was named Florida's Miss Soccer in 2017. She went on to play at Florida Atlantic University and signed with the French Division 1 Feminine Stade de Reims professional team in 2021. In 2022, she played for Lithuanian team FC Gintra, then was signed by Glasgow City in 2023.

In August last year, Porter returned home to Palm Coast. She said she had not seen family for three years and, also, had not received a professional contract worth signing. She took six months off and knew she needed to get back into shape. That is when player Alexis Savage and Amiri reached out.

“Honestly, for me, I love it (being back) because I was oversees and my family really didn’t get to see me play at that level,” she said. “Just being home and being able to play in front of them, it’s just like when I was younger when I started playing. It’s really nice to be home. Friends and family come to the games that haven’t seen me play since I left home for college.”

Morgan Long is the lone former Seabreeze player on the Royal Palms team. She graduated this year and will be playing soccer for Daytona State College in the fall. She said she wants to play two more years after she graduates DSC but is undecided where she would like to go. Her DSC coach, Hope Clark, recommended she play for the Royal Palms team this summer.

“With this team, a lot of the players are ex

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