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OAKLAND — More than 500 players, including 13 high school soccer teams from around the state, will join the return of the 11-hour, continuous soccer game Kick For Cass, on Saturday, July 9, at Thomas College in Waterville.
The annual event is held in honor and in memory of Cassidy Charette, a former midfielder for Messalonskee High School Girls Soccer who wore the number 11 jersey before she was killed in a hayride accident on Oct. 11, 2014.
Kick For Cass, postponed for two years, will welcome back high school soccer teams, playing from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in a round-robin play day. From 2 to 7 p.m., community teams of college and high school athletes, club soccer, summer campers, Cassidy’s friends and neighbors, and others will round out the final hours.
Registration fee is $250 per team for the high school play day. The fee for individuals playing in the community games is $15 per player.
The event is still accepting teams, which must register online at shineoncass.org or email shineoncass@gmail.com.
Proceeds from this year’s event will support the CMU ShineOnCass Soccer Scholarship.
The final hour of Kick for Cass will feature a walk-in ceremony and a friendly competition between Cassidy’s former soccer teammates from Messalonskee High School vs. her Central Maine United Premiere Soccer team, from 6 to 7 p.m. Spectators are welcome all day. Messalonskee All Sports Boosters Club will provide concessions throughout the event. Inclement weather date is Sunday, July 10.
To register a team, volunteer, or sponsor, please email shineoncass@gmail.com or visit shineoncass.org.
PHOTO: Cassidy Charette (center) with her Messalonskee soccer teammates Katie Mercier (left) and Fern Calkins (right) in 2014. The Kick for Cass continuous soccer game, played in her memory and held at Thomas College in Waterville, raises money for the CMU ShineOnCass Soccer Sholarship. (Submitted photo)
