Founder pleased with Strathmore Soccer’s future

Times Reporter   

 

With the soccer pitch behind Ranch Market having their opening ceremony on June 15, Warren Good finally saw what he had hoped for, back when he founded Strathmore Minor Soccer in 1982 with friend Art Stirrett.

“The first year, we basically got people to come in…and had about four teams worth. So we had probably, I think it was around 50-60 kids that wanted to play,” said Good. “We thought, oh this is a good idea.”

It was – both Good and Stirrett took coaching and refereeing clinics, preparing to help the league grow; they also lined the fields themselves. Twenty-one years ago when it started, registration was only $20, mostly to fund soccer balls.

“From there it just sort of evolved and Art had this great idea, back probably in 1985, that Strathmore needed their own soccer pitches,” Good said. “He started working towards that type of organization.”

Good was involved with the league as the treasurer for 16 years, three years past when his kids stopped playing in 1998.

“We had a lot of help along the way,” said Good, who spent those years “not doing much else”, as he was also working full time. “It was an interesting world, my kids all loved to play it. It was worth it.”

The gratification came when he saw how successful Strathmore Minor Soccer had become, and the strong future our community has ahead of it, especially now with their own fields.

 “To see the effort that we put in, in those early years, and to see it’s still going, was really, really wonderful,” he said.