The uncomfortable truth about fields

Last week's City Council votes on Conway Park exposed the old fault lines of Grass v. Turf. It's one of my least favorite aspects of youth soccer, because a complicated, nuanced subject is reduced to propaganda, hyperbole, and emotional pleas. I'm reluctant to entertain bothsidesism in The Age of False Equivalence, but it's a reasonable …

Game scheduling in a pandemic

Typically our game schedules are fully determined and uploaded by the third week of August. But this is one more way that COVID-19 is changing things for us. With our Travel Program teams primarily playing intramural games this fall against each other, we aren't participating in Middlesex Youth Soccer League (MYSL), our travel league. We …

Travel Family Orientations

Tonight we held a (belated) orientation on our Travel program for families with kids coming out of our In-Town program this year. This was supposed to happen back in June at Capuano Field during Field Evaluations, but the global pandemic had other ideas. When I joined the board three years ago as the Communications & …