Keep your fingers crossed. Huntsville's Kevin Shinn has made it no secret that he intends to sell the Huntsville School Board on varisty soccer eventually. There's also talk among some of Green Forest's top players of transferring to Berryville and joining the team. The bad news is that the grant has no money for us to spend on whatever we like. The other very good news is that we have some very attractive incentive goodies to give to our clubs' kids who go with COSL officials to do clinics.
Kids can earn a pair of shin guards or a very nice adidas ball just for helping out.
A vital key to successfully planting a new club is to identify a local parent who will ramrod the effort, just like Earl King did in Alpena or the Bailey sisters, Serena and Samantha, in Omaha. Jimmy was St. Paul Head Coach Joan Smith's husband. She is COSL's only great-grandmother who is a certified referee. Her husband passed away on Friday, July 20th. Joan has requested that instead of flowers that a donation be made to the St. Paul Soccer Association.