(This series is the documentation of a 365-day project to help develop more local and regional soccer clubs in Maine, help improve the connectivity among new and existing local and regional clubs in Maine, and cultivate a more purposeful and accessible local --> regional --> state developmental pathway for all of Maine's soccer stakeholders.)
Maine has more than 480 towns and cities and about 115 public high schools that rostered varsity soccer teams in 2024.
Our goal as a soccer state should be to ensure every high school program has an official affiliation with a local youth soccer club fully committed to Maine's Fall Classic League, and that every local youth soccer club has an official affiliation with a regional youth soccer club fully committed to the Maine State Premier League.
And when we have local clubs and regional clubs collaborating with one another to ensure every square yard of the state provides local and regional opportunities for all of Maine's soccer stakeholders, our regional clubs should serve as a primary personnel pool for our statewide Olympic Development Program.
Maine is a relatively small state when it comes soccer, and we should take advantage of that relatively small size to improve the connectivity, access, and purpose in our soccer system.
Today's work toward achieving those goals was to create five different spreadsheets mapping out the demographics of Maine's existing towns, high schools, local clubs, regional clubs, and the unofficial connections that already exist among those towns, high schools, local clubs, and regional clubs.
The local level feeds into the regional level, and the regional level feeds into the state level.
It's a simple and compelling concept, but it will be difficult and time-consuming work.
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Related: Now is a Good Time to Reimagine Maine Soccer (December 11, 2024)
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