(Editor’s note: This is the second in a multi-part series.)
by Larry Chowning –
The Middlesex County Sports Complex at Locust Hill is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and since opening it has been home to the Middlesex Soccer League program and today the Middlesex Family YMCA Soccer Program.
When officials broke ground on the sports complex in summer 1995 the county’s youth soccer league was in transition. Since the startup of the league in 1982, youth soccer had been played on Christchurch School’s athletic fields. However, with the large growth in the soccer program, school officials at Christchurch were suggesting a location with more parking and field space.
By 1990 many soccer parents of children involved in the creation of the startup of youth soccer in Middlesex had aged out of the league. The program was in desperate need of volunteers and new leadership.
The meeting was attended by…
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