UKSD Timeline

2018

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2017

Now a fully established organization on Cape Cod with several hundred players participating in our year round programming, endless amounts of community service hours logged, providing opportunities for travel in the name of social change across the US., Caribbean, Africa, and Middle East, creating opportunities for players to be actively engaged and community minded youth leaders, we decided that we wanted to assist with creating opportunities for our members to experience college life first hand and created partnerships across the U.S. with several college soccer programs. Our players would now have the chance to experience life on a college campus, meet players, coaches, clubs, and admissions to help each of our members to be able to better navigate the next chapter of their lives.

2016

This was a huge year for our international programs and efforts to provide opportunities for players within our local Cape Cod programs to truly make a difference throughout the entire world. While members of the UKSD team were heading to Kenya to create new partnerships and help at risk your people within the Kibera Slum in Nairobi, UKSD Alumni had partnered with organizations in Jordan who were dedicated to providing a safe environment for refugees. Prior to both visits, players from UKSD programs had collected soccer equipment and school supplies that were distributed to young people throughout the Caribbean, Africa, and Middle East

2015

In 2015 we continued to build on all of our programming locally and started to make new connections throughout the U.S. specifically in Ohio with high school aged players from our Cape Cod KidzPlay4FreeProject programs, and visited inner city schools throughout Columbus to provide totally free of charge clinics. We once again made our annual pilgrimage to Dominica with several high schools volunteers and with the assistance of UKSD members who were now embarking life after high school and wanted to continue their work with UKSD, created the Alumni in the Community program.

2014

What had started off as a handful of kids in 2011, was now between 100 and 200 players strong at each event on Cape Cod, with fully established year round totally free of charge playing opportunities. In 2014 we also embarked on our first adventure to Dominica with a handful of Cape Cod high school soccer players for an unforgettable trip, helping families, providing school supplies and soccer equipment, and assisting with service projects throughout the island to better the lives of local people.

2013

After much research and discussion with our high school members, we decided to dedicate some of our efforts to helping other communities across the U.S. and throughout the world. The next step was to take the show on the road. In 2013 we took a group of female high school soccer players across the pond to sunny England for a weeks visit to the University of Exeter. Prior to the trip to the U.K. UKSD team members had visited the Caribbean island of Dominica to set up relationships with groups that works with impoverished communities and act risk young people throughout the island. The stage had been set for our Cape Cod participants to see how the game of soccer could break down social barriers, globally…

2012

Upon gathering multiple youth throughout Cape Cod and providing them with a safe environment to play, we wanted to engage each of player and encourage each participant to be actively engaged in efforts to better their community. Due to this we created platforms and events such as our sleepout soccerthons and food donation tournaments throughout several towns across Cape Cod. Players from far and wide, of all abilities, started to turn out and join us in helping their community through soccer.

2011

The concept and ideas were formulated and the United Kidz Soccer Development mission had began. Our first ever program was a pick up street soccer game with 9 kids in a parking lot and an old soccer ball. Throughout the year we were joined by more and more players each week in parking lots, on the beach, in school gyms, and on many soccer fields throughout the Cape. It was official, the KidzPlay4FreeProject had arrived!