General Information for Sturbridge Fall Rec Soccer & Tantasqua (5 Town) Travel Fall/Spring Soccer

There are 2 programs available for kids to play soccer within the Town of Sturbridge and the Tantasqua, 5 Town School System.  
(1) Fall "Rec" Soccer Program and (2) the Fall and Spring Travel Soccer Program.  

More details on both programs below:

Sturbridge "Rec" Soccer is part of the 5 Town Recreational Soccer Program which has been created to allow kids to have fun and play soccer between the ages of 5 yrs to 18 yrs at a recreational level. The "Rec" Soccer Program encourages kids to stay active and learning how to have fun while learning to be team mates.  The "Rec" Soccer Program runs in the Fall Season ONLY with games on Saturdays and practices once or twice during the week depending on the coach. The Sturbridge "Rec" Soccer Program is part of the overall 5 town "Tantasqua" TRY "Rec" Soccer Program which is a way for kids to learn the game of soccer and to have fun while learning at the recreational level. The "Rec" Soccer Program also encourages kids to play in an organized manner while having fun with their team mates.  "Rec" soccer is a co-ed program.  This "Rec" soccer program completely relies on volunteers, therefore we need your help, All and any help is greatly appreciated.  

The Recreational Soccer Program is "generally" a fall season sport with signs up online for Sturbridge from March to June 1st. The Fall soccer teams are created through out the month of June, scheduling of the "Rec" soccer games for the 5 towns will be completed throughout July and teams wills be communicated to all families and coaches between the third week of July to first week of August.  There is a mandatory "All Leveled" coaches meeting usually held, the 3rd or 4th Wednesday or Thursday of August and on this night, coaches are to also pick up the team equipment on that same night.

The Sturbridge Recreational Soccer Program additionally offers U8 Spring Recreational Program and Pre-kickers Instructional Soccer through the Real Fútbol Program.  These programs are available for any of the 5 towns within the "Tantasqua" district to keep the kids active and playing if they would rather not participate in the "TRY" Competitive Spring Travel Program.  As stated above, the Recreational Soccer Program completely relies on volunteers and functions completely on having these volunteers.  

Volunteers can help with coordination, equipment, fields, coaches, assistant coaches, and referees!!  Please consider helping out, as the existence of the program is completely based on volunteers.  If you are wanting to coach, assist or ref there are 2 Saturday mornings in August that Jack Keough (longtime volunteer and Board Member) offers time to go over the rules of each division played within the "Rec" Program (not mandatory to attend but can gather some great information).  

Also the TRY league encourages and will reimburse the fee for any coach to take and obtain their G license - let the league know once you pass and complete the course for reimbursement. Click on the link tab on this website to take you to the G license website or click here: https://www.massyouthcoachingcourse.org/.

The Recreational Soccer league has 5 divisions that are co-ed;

            Pee Wee-Generally Kindergarten and 1st Grade (U7) but kids 5 & 6 years old by December 31st of current year

            Bantam-Generally 2nd and 3rd Grade (U9) but kids 7 & 8 years old by December 31st of current year

            Freshman-Generally 4th and 5th Grade (U11) but kids 9 & 10 years old by December 31st of current year

            Sophomore-Generally 6th and 7th Grade (U13) but kids 11 & 12 years old by December 31st of current year

            Jr/Sr-Generally 8th Grade to 12th Grade (U14-U16) but kids 13-18 years old by December 31st of current year

visit: leaguelineup.com/sturbridgerecsoccer for Sturbridge "Rec" Soccer information specifically and visit www.tantasquasoccer.com for the overall 5 town TRY Recreational Soccer and TRY Travel Soccer information. 

"TRY Soccer" oversees the Travel Programs solely and works to collaborate between the 5 towns of "Tantasqua" to create a fun competitive TRY Recreational Soccer Program within the 5 towns of the "Tantasqua" District. 

The TRAVEL Soccer League is available for kids to play when kids turn 8 years of age the by December 31st of current year -- therefore, older aged 2nd grade children are eligible to sign up -- which travel soccer is generally for kids entering grade 3, therefore registrations would be mid-April to June 1st of the 2nd grade and up but for the older kids of the grade (Sept to Dec birth years -- these aged kids are eligible 2nd grade, therefore registrations would be amid-April to June of that child's 1st grade).  

Sign ups / Registrations run from mid-April to June 1st timeframe for Fall Travel Soccer and than late October through November sign ups for Spring Travel Soccer). The TRAVEL program has both Fall and Spring leagues and play against towns outside of the "Tantasqua" district, which traveling is required for 4 of the 8 games.  The TRAVEL program has a U10, U12, U14 and U16 division. The TRAVEL program is made up of same gender/sex teams, unless there is not enough of the same gender, than those aged kids can choose a combined boy/girl team. Please visit website www.tantasquasoccer.com for more information about the TRAVEL soccer program. Sign ups for the travel league are online through the state sports manager website but can be directed  by visiting the "TRY soccer" website at www.tantasquasoccer.com from mid-April to June1st for the Fall travel season and November timeframe for the Spring Travel season.
 
Contact Email: [email protected]

League Sponsors	Address	Phone	Web Site	Email
Steadfast Fence Company	6 Apple Hill Road Sturbridge, MA 01560	508-347-7722
B.T.'s Smokehouse Smoke fired BBQ Restaurant	392 Main Street Sturbridge, MA 01566	5083473188
Incom	294 Southbridge Road Charlton, MA 01507	1-508-909-2200
Austin Liquors	117 Gold Star Blvd Worcestor, MA 01606	+1 (508) 853-8953
Southbridge Credit Union	205 Main Street Southbridge, MA 01550	1-888-599-2265
Urgent Care Express at Harrington	10 North Main Street Charlton, MA 01507	508-248-1770
Harrington HealthCare System	100 South Street Southbridge, MA 01550	508-765-9771
The Publick House The Publick House	Sturbridge, MA 01566	508-347-7323
Venture Community Services Providing compassionate person-centered services	One Picker Road Sturbridge, MAA 01566	774-922-1236
Clarified Data Solutions Owner and Creator- Lana Pieczynski	Glendale Road Fiskdale, MA 01518	1-704-458-6204
Real Fútbol Training Pontip "Tippy"	Paxton, MA	1-508-320-4036