Moose Jaw soccer taking registration, preparing for season

Players across all age groups can now register for upcoming campaign, games start July 20

Fans of sports in Moose Jaw, get ready to get busy.

With Phase 4 of the Re-Open Saskatchewan plan now hitting full stride, local sports organizations are rapidly gearing up for the coming campaigns.

The Moose Jaw Soccer Association is one of the latest to announce plans to return to the field, with registration officially opening on Thursday and games beginning on July 20.

The cost for players in the Under-5, U7 and U9 divisions is $99 a player, for

U13, U15 and U17 $139. Players in the

Moose Jaw FC program can register for $30 in the U7 and U9 classes, $55 for U11 and U13 and $175 for U15, U17 and U19.

Players in the FC program may return to the field earlier, with coaches making that decision.

Schedules and playing dates will be released once registration has been completed and teams have been drawn.

The men’s and women’s leagues are also preparing, with players having to be 16-yearsold. Men’s games will be six-versus-six and women’s games three-versus-three, with one game a week on Sundays. The registration fee is $175 and players can email moosejawsoccer@gmail.com for more information.

Players are asked to register as soon as possible, as spots may be limited in order to deal with social distancing. Other measures will be in place as per the Saskatchewan Return to Soccer Plan in order to maintain safety of players and officials and minimize the danger from COVID-19.

Anyone who registered prior to the season shutdown is still registered. Registration will be completed through the Moose Jaw Soccer RAMP site, which can be found by visiting the MJSA website at mjsa.ca.

ed for the senior basketball team. Applicants also wrote an essay discussing the role sports and academics have had in their lives, how sports will impact their future and the leadership and confidence they built through sports. That athletics-based focus was for a very good reason, said scholarship coordinator Deb Negraiff.

“The focus on young women and their development in sports is important,” she said. “The more we support these young women in sports, the more it will help them. And they don’t have to go on and play sports, it’s what sport does for their life later on.” Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic will prevent the second annual tournament

from occurring next month. But there’s little question that when it returns in 2021, things will be even bigger and better given how well things went the first time around.

“When we started the tournament process we had no idea what would happen and there was a lot of nailbiting when you don’t know,” Barber said. “But two weeks before the tournament, we were sold out and we could have had a lot more participants… Everybody that day was so supportive of our cause, they spent money buying tickets and our sponsors were fabulous. They supported us in any way they could and it made a huge difference.”