To provide a place for people to play soccer year-round. Back in 1975, Ward agreed to run the Ranger and Makule soccer leagues while the man who was in charge left for a year. I'm sure there's other things I could have been doing all this time,'' she said. But I really enjoy it. We're out there every weekend.
Players bring their families to games, the kids grow up and come back and play in the leagues.
Ward is a fitness assistant at the Martinez Recreation Center at Schofield Barracks. She introduced indoor soccer to the base. Ward never played soccer until after she moved here in 1967. I can remember when there were just two women's teams,'' she said. Then it grew to over 30.