The Rosevelt Soccer Club is celebrating its 10th season, so over the next ten weeks we'll be celebrating
ten of the club's milestones over the last decade.
No. 8: Multigenerational Club
After rostering only youth teams since our club's founding in 2014, we rostered a 23U Men's team for the first time last summer as part of our longterm goal of becoming a multigenerational club.
Multigenerational clubs, of course, have been the international norm for decades, and they've recently become more common in the United States. But here in Maine there are very few clubs with both youth and adult teams, and we are a proud founding member of the Maine Soccer Association--a state association affiliated with U.S. Soccer and the U.S. Adult Soccer Association founded to provide men's and women's programming that complements our clubs' youth programming.
One benefit of being a multigenerational club is it no longer requires our players to "retire" from our club when they graduate from high school, but they can instead continue playing for our men's and women's teams.
And besides extending the developmental pathway for our players, being a multigenerational club allows us to provide more developmental opportunities for our club's administrators, coaches, referees, and all other stakeholders.
As we plan our 2024 23U Men's and 23U Women's rosters, it's pretty cool to look back at our inaugural 23U Men's team whose roster consisted of about 70% of our youth alums and whose inaugural goal was the result of a sequence that included three of our youth alumni.
- John C.L. Morgan
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