{"id":34825,"date":"2023-06-20T09:38:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T13:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/?p=34825"},"modified":"2024-02-08T14:28:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T19:28:10","slug":"miami-dade-college-announces-plans-to-field-soccer-teams-in-fall-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/miami-dade-college-announces-plans-to-field-soccer-teams-in-fall-of-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Dade College Announces Plan To Field Soccer Teams In Fall Of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Move over Lionel Messi, soccer is coming to Miami Dade College.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBeginning fall of 2024, Miami Dade College will have men and women\u2019s soccer,\u201d the schools president <\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/after-20-months-miami-dade-college-selects-madeline-pumariega-as-its-next-president\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Madeline Pumariega<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> announced at Tuesday\u2019s monthly Board of Trustees meeting. \u201cAnd we are kicking it off.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The news comes on the heels of Messi\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/stories\/soccer\/lionel-messi-is-reportedly-close-to-joining-inter-miami-on-free-transfer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">announcement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on June 7 that he is transferring from Paris Saint Germain in France to play for Inter Miami\u2014a Major League Soccer team created five years ago by David Beckham.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shortly after the announcement, trustee <\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mdc.edu\/about\/leadership\/trustees-anay-abraham.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anay Abraham<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> asked: \u201cIs Messi coming with the deal?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her question was met with a volley of laughs from the audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The last time MDC fielded a soccer team was in the 1990.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt doesn\u2019t make any sense, if you think about our community and the diversity of our community, that we wouldn\u2019t have soccer here at this college,\u201d Pumariega said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To kick-start the team, MDC plans to hire two coaches this fall and start recruiting a squad for the 2024-25 season. They will host open tryouts for the community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each team will feature 15\u201320 players and they will practice and play games at the existing soccer fields on the northwest side of Kendall Campus, according to interim athletics director Ramona Edwards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cristina Mateo, the senior director of campus administration at Kendall Campus, said nine light posts are being added to the space this summer. The project will cost $1.6 million.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s unclear at this time if any additional modifications will be made to the pitch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is known is that players will utilize the locker rooms and showers at the Theodore R. Gibson Health Center.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kendall Campus President Anthony Cruz said the addition will increase student engagement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnytime that we can bring in another sport into our athletic program, it&#8217;s a great thing,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, Miami Dade College fields baseball, softball, volleyball and men and women&#8217;s basketball teams. They compete in Division I of the Southern Conference of the Florida College System Athletics Association.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sharks will compete in Region 8, Division I and will only play against teams in the state, Edwards said. The team will participate in 20-22 games a season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This past season, Daytona State College and Eastern Florida State College had women\u2019s and men\u2019s teams in Division I. Polk State College suited up a women\u2019s squad.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kelly Warren, the executive director of the Florida Collegiate System Activities Association, said the National Junior College Athletic Association has not yet notified them that MDC will field the teams for the 2024-2025 season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe&#8217;re excited,\u201d Pumariega said. \u201cThis is a great day for the community, for Miami Dade College, and especially for the students that are going to be able to stay here and play.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Staff writer Nikole Valiente contributed to this story.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i>Click<a href=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.us19.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4fc6146412415baee32007fd7&amp;id=b5cd3712dc\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> here<\/span><\/a> to subscribe to our bi-weekly newsletter, The Hammerhead. For news tips, contact us at <a href=\"mailto:mdc.thereporter@gmail.com\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">mdc.thereporter@gmail.com\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move over Lionel Messi, soccer is coming to Miami Dade College. \u201cBeginning fall of 2024, Miami Dade College will have men and women\u2019s soccer,\u201d the schools president Madeline Pumariega announced at Tuesday\u2019s monthly Board of Trustees meeting. \u201cAnd we are kicking it off.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 The news comes on the heels of Messi\u2019s announcement on June 7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13482574,"featured_media":34840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14,3483],"tags":[299],"class_list":{"0":"post-34825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-sports","9":"category-soccer","10":"tag-soccer"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MDC Announces Plan To Field Soccer Teams In Fall Of 2024<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The College announced plans to start a men&#039;s and women\u2019s soccer team in the 2024-25 season at its Board of Trustees meeting on Tuesday.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/miami-dade-college-announces-plans-to-field-soccer-teams-in-fall-of-2024\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MDC Announces Plan To Field Soccer Teams In Fall Of 2024\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The College announced plans to start a men&#039;s and women\u2019s soccer team in the 2024-25 season at its Board of Trustees meeting on Tuesday.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/miami-dade-college-announces-plans-to-field-soccer-teams-in-fall-of-2024\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Reporter: The Student Newspaper at Miami Dade College\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-06-20T13:38:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-02-08T19:28:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MDC-Soccer.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1201\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Juan S. 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