Hockessin Soccer Club

United Way 2010 Campaign

You can help make a great difference to the communities in our region by supporting the United Way, which is about to start up its annual fundraising drive, which many of you participate in through work. We encourage you to participate by giving what you can to those in need. We recognize that these are difficult times but this is when these programs need your help most of all. Hockessin Soccer Club is proud to offer service to our community.

Every year, we sponsor, host and staff US Youth Soccer’s TOPSoccer (The Outreach Program for Soccer) program. TOPSoccer is a community-based training and team placement program for young athletes with disabilities. The program is designed to bring the opportunity of learning and playing soccer to any boy or girl, age 4-19, which has a cognitive or physical disability. TOP Soccer’s goal is to enable our young athletes with disabilities to become valued and successful members of the Hockessin Soccer Club family. Our TOPSoccer Program concentrates on development, training, and providing meaningful participation rather than on competition. Practices will be a combination of skill training and small-sided games. For the players who are unable to participate in a team environment due to medical reasons, we also offer a skills program that is rewarding, challenging and fun!

Additionally, the club offers a number of scholarships for players from families faced with severe economic challenges because we want every child to have the opportunity to play and we understand the fundamental role that athletics plays in healthy youth development. With the recent recession we are finding that more and more of our families are faced with competing needed for the families’ finical resources and we are seeing a shape increase in applications for scholarships. These two and other programs of the club draw on the club’s limited financial resources.

We count on generous donations of our families and the United Way to make them all happen. Your generosity to United Way will help. Additionally, you can direct all or part of your United Way contribution to Hockessin Soccer Club through the following codes:

United Way of Delaware Book Number: 47720
United Way of South Eastern Pennsylvania Book Number: 9416

If you have any questions about the United Way or the new process, please call or write Lindsay at

lindsay@hockessinsoccerclub.com

We Need Your Help!

One of the strengths of the Hockessin Soccer Club is our fields. Getting them ready and keeping them in great shape takes a lot of work. This year we need a few volunteers to play key roles in support of our Director of Fields - Pat Evancho. We are looking to create a small group that will work with Pat to manage our fields and their use for the year. If you are interested in leading:

Field lining and set-up
Day-to-day field readiness
Field planning and scheduling

Or other activities related to our fields. Please contact Linsay at Lindsay@hockessinsoccerclub.com or 302-234-1444 or Pat Evancho at zipppitinthenet@gmail.com.

Volunteers make the HSC Club possible, thanks for all your support.