This team was born out of necessity. The founders, Milad Gueramian (CS 16') and Jonathan Montesdeoca (EE '18') were driven to create this team by an unending passion for the sport and for USC. Milad Gueramian started dabbling with the idea of creating a team back in 2013 before his first week of classes. He learned that there had been no students groups actively lobbying for this team so he started a petition to gauge student interest for NCAA DI men's soccer team. After a few months, 1,300+ students were on board with the idea. Luckily, in the 2015, Jonathan Montesdeoca found Milad's petition while independently searching for ways to bring high level soccer back to USC. The two joined forces and the rest is history.

Our team began competing in the SoCal Premier League in the fall of 2017. The primary goal in this first year was to build an administrative team. In the spring of 2018, we found our head coach, Sanjay Sujanthakumar, and in the year thereafter we added two assistant coaches and several new players, transitioning from the Sunday league side to a serious men’s soccer program. We were the only college-based soccer team to compete in the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup, and a year later we became the first-ever university team to win a US Open Cup qualifier. In the spring of 2020, we joined the United Premier Soccer League. Our rise has been a story of passion, persistence, and grit, and it will be sustained by generations of Trojans to come both as players and administrators.