MHSA School Soccer

The Medicine Hat Soccer Association would like to partner with the schools in Medicine Hat to hopefully allow more kids access to playing soccer and a chance to play for their school team. Through partnership with the schools, MHSA is hoping to reduce barriers and increase the numbers of kids, especially girls, playing soccer at this age level.   

We are looking to have an engagement session on Thursday, January 10th at 7:00pm in the front lobby area of McCoy High School.

At the session, MHSA will present our thoughts and ideas around what the leagues would look like, and then hear your feedback as to what would work best for the schools. Our initial thoughts are:

• The leagues would run in the months of May and June and would be finished before exams.   
• We are trying to have a middle school grade 9 and under age level (U15) and a high school level (U17-U19), with the possibility of combining age groups between U19 and U17 players. 
• A 7 v 7 format is a possibility, to increase feasibility.
• We would like to have a boys and girls team from each of the each groups, from each school. (Our goal would be to not have co-ed groupings at this time but retain as a last resort.)
• Players would play for their school. If a school team is full, we could consider the possibility of their joining another school's team with low numbers or forming a community team.

As of right now we are unsure of numbers, so what the league, teams, games, etc. will look like will have to be determined in greater detail after registration.   

Regards,

Hugh Lehr
Vice President
Medicine Hat Soccer Association