I’ve referenced the Central Ozarks Soccer League and Rob Kerby in the past. He’s one of my favorite soccer reads. He works hard to find funding for his rural squad and one way he has accomplished this is by getting grants for the kids to put on clinics. He and the squad are looking for clubs in the area that might be interested in benefitting from the message.
The Green Forest Tigers, a junior high team from Green Forest, Arkansas, is looking for any southern Missouri club that would like a free, two-hour Smoke Free Home Pledge clinic at their fields. These are a fun bunch of 6th thru 8th graders who earn their soccer season by putting on fun clinics that amount to a bunch of fun games that all have a message of why athletes can’t smoke cigarettes. Their sponsors are the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Carroll County Resource Council and Prevention Planning Board, and the Arkansas Office of Tobacco Prevention and Education Programs. This is the team’s seventh year of doing this — and we’ve been featured at the NSCAA national convention in Kansas City as well as Providence, RI, and at Centers for Disease Control conferences in Phoenix, Boston, San Francisco, New Orleans and Portland, Maine.
It’s free. Expect a bunch of serious rural soccer junior highs who are skilled at playing fun soccer-related games with kindergartners through fifth graders.
On a related note, the boys tied for 2nd in the Arkansas Scholastic Cup , settling for 3rd in the tie-breaker. Might be worth setting up a game while they are here. You can contact Rob at kerbyrob (at) aol (dot) com
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