Play soccer and support 1,500 Boston inner-city youth at the HubCup!

America SCORES New England  is looking for university students to play in Boston’s first ever Hub Cup! The Hub Cup is ASNE’s newest fundraising event, a citywide soccer tournament with teams made up of Boston-area university students, to take place during April and May 2010.

ASNE’s staff will organize and run a 32-team tournament at Boston’s Clemente Field, with the winning teams and top fundraising teams from each ‘regional’ tournament advancing to the Hub Cup Final to compete for the title of Hub Cup Champion. Games will be 7v7, teams must have at least two women, and each team is guaranteed at least three games. The entry fee per team for the tournament is $500; America SCORES New England will set up online donation pages for each team to facilitate fundraising efforts.

ASNE is an after-school program that combines soccer, creative writing, and service learning to combat rising rates of childhood obesity and low literacy in Boston, and is the largest after-school program operating within the Boston Public Schools. The America SCORES New England staff will support each Hub Cup team throughout the entire fundraising process. All funds raised for the Hub Cup will be used to benefit America SCORES New England’s tri-curricular programming that reaches 1,500 Boston public school students each year.

For more information about how to enter your soccer team into the Hub Cup, or about how you can help out with the event, please contact ASNE’s Event and Administration Manager, Alex Maeder at amaeder@americascores.org or by phone at (617) 265-0066 ext 153.