The Brecksville Soccer Organization and the Brecksville-Broadview Heights Soccer Academy are volunteer soccer programs managed by families in our community without any government subsidies The purpose of our 501(c) 3 non-profit program is to create a great soccer experience. We maintain a fun and nurturing environment where children can learn the technical and tactical skills of soccer to compete at any level a child chooses. Of equal importance is our goal to teach life skills such as teamwork, responsibility and commitment. These life skills go beyond soccer and will help children obtain more out of their schooling as they grow into adults.

We are always looking for coaches who have a desire to teach and help young children. The more coaches we have the more children we can help! In addition parents who wish to help out in a managers role is vital. They keep the coaches free to spend more time teaching the children!

During our 2008-2009 year, BSO accomplishments were many:

1. Tigers U-11 finished with the best GAASA Division II record to move to Division I this spring;
2. Jaguars U-14 from 2008 had 12 of their players successfully move on to six different high schools (Brecksville Broadview Heights, Walsh; Strongsville, Hathaway Brown, Trinity and Holy Name) and play for their respective Junior Varsity and or Varsity Teams.;
3. Helped several soccer families by underwriting their program costs
4. Provided an additional soccer tournaments for the players;
5. Purchased basic conditioning equipment
6. Entered a U-16 team to the CASA Premier Soccer League and;
6. Offset partial costs for Parisi Speed training, a program to help teach better running and conditioning techniques in prevention of ACL injuries which are frequent in young female players.

All this was done with no additional city tax dollars. That is efficiency!

For the 2008-2009 soccer season we are looking to add several teams which will be announce in June after try outs. We will need to purchase additional training equipment and soccer goals. Furthermore, we would like to help a few more families in need.

We look forward to another successful year!